TV shows requirements to go Blu

[dadkins]

Originally Posted by P@t_Mtl

While some TV shows will not have any true benefits to be release on BD, I am sure in the future we will see them. After a while it won't make much sense to keep 2 format around of studios. I am sure they will just stop releasing stuff on DVD and just put it on BD even if it cannot truly be set in HD.

Imagine how many shows in SD that could be crammed on a single BD25 or BD50.

[P@t_Mtl]

Originally Posted by dadkins

Imagine how many shows in SD that could be crammed on a single BD25 or BD50.

probably do a full season on 1 disc

[Daredevil666]

OK, but we will not be able to upscale from the BR using a PS3, in that case, original NTSC DVDs will become more valuable. Unless an update on the PS3 finally make SD content upscalable.

[Afrobean]

Originally Posted by P@t_Mtl

probably do a full season on 1 disc

"Probably"?

I've got at least one show with a whole season in 1080p on a single disc. Now, it's only 13 episodes (Venture Bros. season 3), but still. At 480p, many shows could do a whole series on a single disc. As it is, I don't think any of my Blu-ray TV show season sets have more than 3 discs.

Originally Posted by dvdvision

Huge problem for Star Trek TNG too, as the editing and all sfx were done on beta (ie SD) tapes. Unless they re-conform the original footage, and redo the SFX, there's no way it's going to be issued on Blu-Ray.

Well, I'm pretty sure they redid the special effects for the Original Series, so why would that stop them from doing TNG?

I believe I read somewhere that the problem with doing TNG was that the film source would need to be recut "manually" because while normally there should be logs detailing the edit information, for some reason, there isn't for TNG (perhaps due to the special effects being mastered on tape?).