Star Trek: Enterprise Season 1 Blu-ray March 26, 2013 Review

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Originally Posted by PeterTHX

Keep in mind you're watching severely bitrate limited encodes, HDNet also adds in their own layer of DNR for a lot of their broadcasts. Even if they use the exact same masters the BDs will look better, guaranteed.

HDNet's bitrate is(was; it's AXS.tv now) 17 Mbps. As far as cable networks go it is among the best.

I'm well aware of the bandwidth limitations of consumer HDTV channels and iTunes.

This was not a bitrate problem that I witnessed. It's absolutely a transfer problem. I have seen MUCH better looking shows on iTunes and HDNet. In fact, I'm having a hard time thinking of any show sourced from iTunes or HDNet that I've seen that looks worse than Enterprise.

Older shows, like JAG on HDNet look better than Enterprise. Clearly JAG was scanned in from 35mm using better scanners than Paramount/UPN used for Enterprise.

This is why I do not like the misconception that I have seen in other Trek threads that Enterprise should be an 'easy' Blu-ray release since it's already in HD: it's not really. Enterprise desperately needs a new scan like they are doing with TOS and TNG.

By the time it's all said and done, unless they release a remastered Enterprise way down the line, TOS, TNG, DS9 and Voyager will all look way better on Blu-ray than the most recent and modern Trek series. That's really backwards.