Star Trek's on Blu-ray available for pre order on amazon!

[monkeyjb1988]

Originally Posted by Pyre

man there is a lot of negative reviews on amazon for the movie set thats not even out yet. I may cancel :s

Those "reviewers" are just b******* because the Director's Cuts of some of the films aren't in the set. Don't cancel your order unless you want to wait for a 10 or 11 movie set. The Wrath of Khan is the only getting a through remaster because the other films are probably in decent to good condition. Remember, Wrath of Khan was the first ST film that was actually good, so Paramount may've had to make more prints than they thought they needed.

The first movie made a ton money, yes, but it wasn't that well received critically, so theaters may not have been begging for more prints. For Khan, Paramount may've made less prints, but had to make more when it became really popular. Thus, the print may've had worse damage from all the extra printing. For the films after, Paramount would've knew better and took better care of the negatives so that they weren't beat up as bad as Khan.

The above is just speculation. However, I read in an article about the restoration of the Godfather trilogy, and I quote:

The original negative for Part II had far fewer problems than the negative of the first film. “It was filthy from continuous wet-gate printing, and the recut had created havoc, but overall, it was about 75 percent better than the negative of The Godfather,” says Harris. One reason for the disparity is that Paramount did a much larger initial print run for Part II because the first film was so popular. “The initial print run on the first Godfather was short,” explains Harris. “Many more dye-transfer prints were produced on Part II and survived, so the studio didn’t need to go back [to the original negative] to make more prints as quickly or as often.

source: http://www.ascmag.com/magazine_dynam...ocus/page1.php

I'm thinking the same happened with Wrath of Khan, which is why it needed the extra loving care that the others did not get. (At least The Undiscovered Country is in 2:35:1 now).

Originally Posted by edelgiud

Hmm, I was under the impression that the original series was filmed in 35mm and therefore I thought these remakes would be in 1.78:1 widescreen? 4:3 with new sound and new CG effects only would probably not cut it for me to rebuy....

Why would a show from the 60's, where there weren't even widescreen TVs (there were barely even color TVs) be composed for widescreen? The show was made for fullscreen and that's where it should remain. The fact that they cropped Seinfeld for widescreen makes me angry and I appreciate Paramount for not doing the same to Star Trek. If you want widescreen Star Trek, the movies will work fine. I don't mean to sound nasty, but I'm happy that Star Trek is being shoehorned into an aspect ratio it wasn't meant to be shown in.