Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Any Plans For a Remaster? - Page 4

Darn. I would've picked up seasons 2-7!! 

 

Congrats to all those who got in on this steal! 

My chat with Amazon about Star Trek Counterfeits did nothing.  Amazon still had Voyager which i received today packaged by a market place dealer.  I watched endgame whic i enjoyed.  I still say the effects on my set look good. I check all the discs and they played. I am not however going to sit and watch hour after hour of Trek as one fan told me they were doing for defects.

 

Amazon has Voyager at 43.00. I hate to keep repeating this but remember if you bid on ebay or buy from market place like  you take your chances.  Harry had a bad experence and so did I with DS9.

SNG blu-ray sample by years end. Now we DS9 Fans may have hope for an HD set. I will buy that sampler set that Bill Hunt speaks of too. I hope CBS will read this thread and see how much all of the fans of this great series want a better print and would pay for it. The news CBS will have have TNG ready by 2012 is great news. Bill Hunt said early this year to wait and he was right!
Edited by Mark Collins - 7/26/11 at 8:14pm

Are you saying the HD remaster of TNG is positively confirmed? Do you have a link?

I can see the Digital Bits report from Comic Con, but it says they are still in R&D with 4 test episodes being worked on. I guess you can call me the Ancient Skeptic. I'll beleive it more when there's a more official announcement. And then I'll gladly buy them.

I only read this from Bill Hunt today.

Multiple sources I spoke with at Comic-Con have also confirmed our report from earlier this year that CBS is hard at work on Star Trek: The Next Generation - Remastered for Blu-ray release starting sometime in 2012. The latest word is that 4 test episodes are currently being worked on for release as a sampler/demo BD disc of the project, and that sampler disc will somehow be available to fans by the end of this year. Watch for additional news in the months ahead.

Hey nothing wrong with being a skeptic. I think this is great news but you are right about official and perhaps Dave and Gord will expand on this when they feel the time is right.

I just think when TNG goes BD all the Star Trek Series will fall into place. I hope DS9 would come after but granted that could be awhile.

I am believing more that a remaster is becoming more likely of TNG. I read some comments from a guy called Vidiot on the Hoffmann forums and he tells of his efforts to do some test samples several years ago and they looked fantastic from the film negatives.

The main trouble he sees is reassembling all the cuts. Back then there was poor record keeping of the cuts. These were the days before bar codes were used to label film elements. As we know, it will be quite an effort to eye match the original cuts.

One cool thing out of this is edits from the new CGI effects will be made without the need to cutting earlier into the live action during fades as they had to do with TOS.

I just finished re-watching DS9. The effects heavy battles of the final season were CGI as far as I know. So it might be easier to remaster the later seasons CGI.

I purchased DS9 this year on ebay. I had to return it to the seller because it was one of those import copies. I also received emails from other fans who asked me if this dvd did not play etc.I checked ebay and people are still buying the counterfeit DvDs. I have reported this here on HTF about these imports but people must not know of HTF.

I went ahead and purchased DS9 the complete series from Amazon and thought the last season looked ok. I want better if it is offered. I also bought Voyager the last season from Amazon.I want DS9 in BD!! The show is my favorite among all the Star Trek series. I want the best print i can have. I might not get for awhile but i think it come to BD now that TNG is going BD.

I bought Dark Shadows twice. The whole series from VHS copies to DVD and their extras plus the prime time series.

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea looks great in my blue ray player. I hope they at least do a BD of the movie. I wish for the Lost in Space Fans that Fox would give another look at it. I just do not think it will come about. The last part of Voyage took i believe 2 years or more.

I am wondering which episodes will be the sample. The Best Of Both Worlds could be it. I think they released a dvd on the Borg at one point. Perhaps they will use that as their sample.

Today is Thursday DS9 Fans and I am getting very excited about this turn of events. I like my dvds but i would like better!!! Now I am very glad i never purchased TNG. I can buy it now in HD. I hope we hear today or by the weekend as Bill Hunt perdicts
Edited by Mark Collins - 8/11/11 at 5:35am

I love them both but I love DS9 the best! I guess I would rate them TNG next and then Voyager. TNG is on 5 nights a week here in Chicago on the ME TV Network. We also get Batman which looks great and Gunsomoke. The shows that air on MeTV seem to be unedited from what i can tell.

CAUTION to all Star Trek fans who buy the DVDS on line from ebay to Amazon market place. The China copies look real but they are not real!! I bought them and friends have too. We all had to ask the seller for our money back!

I had a long very long conversation with Trek. The fans and I were waiting in line for tickets for first of the last Star Wars movies.

The fans and I were debating the merits of each Trek Series. The war with the Dominion was one of the best plots I thought in Trek history. I thought the serial format the writers introduced was another brilliant strategy.

The killing off of one of the main characters in season 6 very smart. I also remember the count down to the series conclusion in season 7. I liked season 7 so much I would watch each episode twice when it aired on two different channels.

DS9 also had to carry the Trek Flag alone until Voyager arrived on the scene. The addition to the cast a TNG character another good move. The introduction of the Defiant reminded me of the flying sub intro on Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.

Vic’s and the Vegas Lounge and parallel time gave the actors time off from their normal roles. The episode where all the actors removed their make up in a 40’s fantasy was fantastic! I liked the episode where they paid honor to Star Trek. Sorry fans I just enjoyed the episode.

The pregnancy storyline was artfully dispatched I thought. The series finale was brilliant!

Voyager also had a very excellent finale to their series. The TNG finale I enjoyed but the other two later series finales were better.

The use of humor to lighten up DS9 was another genius stroke by writers. DS9 became it’s own show and did not need to copy any of the two Treks before it.

I own DS9 the only yes only Trek show I do have. I have all the Trek movies good and bad too.

I would buy DS9 in HD if it comes about. I think it is the only series I would every buy in HD.

I know a lot of people complain how DS9 looks. The show on my LED Samsung and bulray player looks good to me. Sorry again fans but it does.

I will be buying TNG in HD if the price is not too high.

Guaranteed there will be HD remaster of All of the Star Trek series.

Why would they not? It is Paramount's most lucrative franchise.

TV is made on film, which makes it easy to remaster in HD 16:9.

They had it on VHS.... did they not sell it to us on DVD? We already it, or I did at least, the series on VHS. I still have the tapes.

Why would they not try and sell it to us in h.264 on itunes and AMAZON? The beatles sold us 45 RP singles, Record Albums, and then CDs.

Then it was not available until last year in any other form but CD...on purpose.

Until Apple Computers bought Apple Records, settling a 30 year battle over the name Apple, and voila, the Beatles are available for download!

I thought itw

Silly whenever someone says "never."

I remember in 1998 someone saying of Apple Laptops," there will never be a PowerBook with a g-3 (yes G-3).

Then there were 4 laptops with g3 processors, followed by 6 models with G-4 processors, followed by more models with faster, dual core processors.

Never is a BIG word on the Internet.

Please try and use it carefully.

Eric Johnson

Not as easy when effects were generated in SD (not HD) in post processing. Thus, requiring the effects to be redone if properly ported to HD and not just an upconversion. That is why many have questioned if the transistion would be made. TOS made it to HD first but it never went through the same SD process as the later series. However, they did redo many of the effects. Now that TNG is being attempted there is hope for the later series as well. But the driver is most likely future syndication in HD more then anything else. I agree that Star Trek has always been lucrative to Paramount so it will get to HD at some point. But it may be just syndication and streaming by the time DS9 gets done.

Remember Firefly and Farscape made it to Bluray but the effects were only upconverted.

As I understand it, Apple Corp, the record company of The Beatles and Apple Inc, formerly Apple Computers are still separate companies. It is nice they finally reached an agreement (after a thousand years) and The Beatles albums are now available on Apple iTunes.

The remastering of The Next Generation should be very interesting to watch. Already there is a report that footage could not be found for the episode Sins of The Father. About 13 seconds of the original footage have not been found, so they have to up convert that section. Hopefully, this is the only incident.

So as far as Deep Space Nine is concerned, if they have to do the same effort of reassembling the actual film footage to reconstruct each episode, including the original optical effects, missing footage could also be the case. Also interesting is that I don't know if the CGI effects of the later seasons are rendered at 480 or higher? There's a lot of battle sequences to either recreate or re-render if the files still exist.

It could be like the case of Star Trek The Motion Picture Directors Cut and it's 2001 CGI effects were not rendered at 1080.

PS: I did some reading, the lost 13 secs may still be found by the time the season set this episode appears in makes it to release. The 13 secs of up converted material will appear in the 4 episode sampler set due in January.
Edited by Nelson Au - 11/24/11 at 2:31pm

I hope they put TNG in the fast track and then begin with DS9.

Of course, I have the exact opposite problem (Amazon UK making the primarly listing for a certain DVD being a marketplace seller, but 'fulfilled by Amazon'). I personally feel that on those "fulfilled by Amazon" listings that, if Amazon themselves are really doing the fulfillment, then there's no good reason that the item shouldn't be shipped to any country that Amazon themselves will ship to. The "unable to ship to your address" on a "fulfilled-by" item is, IMO, idiotic in the extreme.

I don't know how many times I've placed an item in my UK shopping cart, only to go halfway through checkout only to be told to remove the item from my basket or change my address.

Another fault I see with Marketplace is that there is on incentive to buy multiple items from the same seller. At least on eBay's similar site (half.com), you get to deduct a dollar from the shipping fee for each additional item you order from the same seller.