Prime Directive D20 Modern Cover

djdood · Post by **djdood** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 6:55 am

Took the words right out of my mouth OGOPTIMUS.

Just think; the kind of quality and dynamic shots they brought to Doomsday Machine, in an episode with FIVE Federation CA's going full-out. That one will stay on the TIVO permanently.

jmt · Post by **jmt** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 1:15 pm

I"m looking forward to "The Enterprise Incident" for the Ring of Kestral Death.

Mike · Post by **Mike** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 12:32 am

Someone mentioned HD for those remastered shows...

They are not in high definition with the 16:9 aspect ratio. That can't be retro-ed. They are simply digitally remastered.

jpat · Post by **jpat** » Fri Feb 08, 2008 9:26 pm

I do like the cover. I'm just struck again by the dissimilarity of the GURPS and d20 cover-art styles.

djdood · Post by **djdood** » Sat Feb 09, 2008 12:40 am

I think they'll come as close to true HD quality as they can. They went back to the original vault copies of the episodes on film for the source material. They look pretty good, even though the lower quality (35mm?) film they were shot on limits things a bit.

"The Ultimate Computer" airs this weekend. W00t!!

pinecone · Post by **pinecone** » Fri Jun 06, 2008 10:10 pm

Where do you buy the Remastered Treks?

djdood · Post by **djdood** » Fri Jun 06, 2008 11:28 pm

iTunes had them at one point. They are about to come out on (standard) DVD.

pinecone · Post by **pinecone** » Sat Jun 07, 2008 12:56 am

Thanks!

Mike · Post by **Mike** » Sat Jun 07, 2008 1:37 pm

I'm not sure if they are still doing the remastering of the TOS episodes. Has anyone heard anything?

Asik, only the 1st season are available for purchase. Too bad, because The Doomsday Machine is 2nd season and it has the best remastering effects of all of them I've seen.

pinecone · Post by **pinecone** » Sat Jun 07, 2008 2:20 pm

At this link, It shows which episodes are being remastered and info on the new movie. It also has articles about everything trek-related including federation commander

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http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Main_Page

djdood · Post by **djdood** » Sat Jun 07, 2008 9:19 pm

Mike - The link I put up is to an article showing what the second-season remastered DVD art will look like. It hits stores in August.
I'm going to wait until Paramount gets them released on Blu-Ray though - why buy twice?

OGOPTIMUS · Post by **OGOPTIMUS** » Sun Jun 08, 2008 3:53 am

djdood wrote:Mike - The link I put up is to an article showing what the second-season remastered DVD art will look like. It hits stores in August.
I'm going to wait until Paramount gets them released on Blu-Ray though - why buy twice?

I've got the HD-DVD 1st season....sigh.

From what I've read, Blu-Ray may not happen, because there may have been some monetary help coming from Toshiba (the HD-DVD creators) to encode the TOS remastered in HD format. We'll see though.

djdood · Post by **djdood** » Sun Jun 08, 2008 6:10 pm

Oh, it will happen. With the format war over, Paramount won't forgo the opportunity to make money from their property. Once standard DVD sales start to seriously dip, they'll have to re-issue TOS-Remastered on Blu or let their sales die - they certainly won't do that.
It's just a question of when. I'd assume it might be 2-5 years and when they do, it will be the typical bait-and-switch double-dip before we get the package we really want.

Scoutdad · Post by **Scoutdad** » Sun Jun 08, 2008 10:19 pm

Will - you are so negative!

but that's the very same reason I haven't already purchased the re-matered discs. I have bought ST waaaay tooooo many times already. I want to wait a bit for the Blu-Ray version (which will come - but as Will said, only after Paramount has milked every other possible sale out of the current versions!)