Trek News - TNG Remastered Like TOS

[ChrisMC]

Watching "Encounter on Farpoint" right now. Visuals great, episode still a clunker.

Yeah, I hadn't watched it in forever. Everything is just so...off.

[ChrisMC]

Whoa...the few seconds of footage they had to upconvert in "Sins of the Father" becuae the original film couldn't be found...the difference is startling. Just when I had gotten to take the HD conversion for granted. It's the part when Crusher comes to the bridge telling Riker someone else survived Khitomer.

[Rico]

Whoa...the few seconds of footage they had to upconvert in "Sins of the Father" becuae the original film couldn't be found...the difference is startling. Just when I had gotten to take the HD conversion for granted. It's the part when Crusher comes to the bridge telling Riker someone else survived Khitomer.

Yeah, I had heard about that.  I'm really wondering how much of this type of "missing footage" thing they will run into while doing the other episodes.

[ChrisMC]

Hopefully not too much...it's alittle jarring, like when my Netflix quality changes in the middle of viewing.

[KingIsaacLinksr]

Look what arrived for me in the mail =D.

Thanks again Bryan!

King

[ChrisMC]

You are in for a treat, friend!

[Bryancd]

Enjoy Tim! :)

[KingIsaacLinksr]

Finally got a chance to enjoy this tonight and the quality is very nice, very HD.  The 4:3 aspect is a bit weird when I'm used to blu-ray being in 16:9.  But despite that, the Enterprise D looks really crisp and the rest of it just excellent.  They really did a good job of putting it into HD and...it looks really good.  That's all there is to say about it :).  One day I'll probably invest into all the blu-ray packs.  But it won't be quickly.  My main hope is that these eventually become available on Netflix and so forth.  Obviously that'll probably be several years from now. 

Thanks again Bryan for the disc :D. 

King

[Rico]

Looks like season 1 on Blu-Ray for TNG will be coming to us around or on July 23, 2012.  :)

[ChrisMC]

Ooooh I wants it!

Some new comparisons:

[Rico]

Yep - just used one of those for today's daily pic.  :)

[ChrisMC]

One great mind and one average mind think alike!

[KingIsaacLinksr]

Looks like season 1 on Blu-Ray for TNG will be coming to us around or on July 23, 2012.  :)

Hmm, seems about right for when I thought it would be coming out. 

Be interesting to see the entire series in HD. 

King

[Rico]

Looks like they found that missing footage...

'SINS OF THE FATHER' FOOTAGE FOUND
Apr 11, 2012: Missing footage from 'Sins of the Father' found?
Reports have surfaced that the missing 13 seconds of original film elements from Season 3's "Sins of the Father" has now been located. We originally reported on the missing footage back in November when the remastering team were forced to use upconverted SD material to fill the void in the episode which was featured on January's "Next Level" sampler release.

Answering a question on his Facebook page, Robert Meyer Burnett (responsible for creating documentaries on the 1st Season TNG Blu Ray set) has stated that the remastering team have now tracked down the missing elements which will be edited back into the episode for the release of the Season 3 Blu-Ray boxset. According to Burnett,

"It was indeed found and replaced. For the season three box set, SINS will be intact. We deal with this in a documentary for Season One."

This is indeed excellent news - we remain hopeful that any further missing elements will have a minimal impact on this project. We have been unable to validate Burnett's statements with CBS, but it would seem as though they are credible given the source.

We also have word that CBS are starting to prepare for pre-release publicity for the first season, so expect official news to start emerging soon!

[Ktrek]

This is good news and very encouraging. It means, at least to me, that they are doing as thorough a job as time and budget will allow and that they want to put out the best product they can. Thanks for the info.

Kevin