Star Trek TOS Season 2 Blu Ray official - Page 3

Loving that Best Buy price.  Can't wait to bring this set home and enjoy some Doomsday Machine.

Doug

Amazon has matched BB's price.





Crawdaddy

Friends,

I own a Panasonic DMP-BD10A blu ray player.   I have upgraded the firmware to the latest edition (2.5).

My Star Trek TOS Season 2 blu-rays will not play any of the episodes.   The root menu comes up just fine, but when you click on episodes and then choose one, the "play" timer continues to move forward, but the episode never starts.   It just stays stuck on the root menu screen, and the area on the right hand side that has the box with the episode information just stays blank.   The phenomenon is consistent across all 6 blu ray discs.   The special features like Billy Blackburn will all play just fine.

All of my other blu ray movies and concerts play just fine, including Star Trek TOS 1.  This is perplexing.   I am wondering if it is possible that it's just a bad batch of discs, or if I will have this problem because of my player.   Thanks in advance for any ideas.

-Dan

Time to revive! lol

I LOVE my TOS season 1 and 2 sets!

I discussed an issue with Nelson that I was having with TOS 2 where the episodes would pause during playback on my PS3.  After some googling I discovered that if I disabled the internet connection to my PS3 (it's wired) that should solve the problem, and it worked! 

Funny, because it was the ONLY thing I've ever played back that the PS3 had issue with, but now it's flawless with network disabled.  No biggie.   10 seconds to switch it off and back on when I'm done...way better than keeping my thumb hovering over the PLAY button on my remote, LOL.

Some great episodes on Season 2...Star Trek at full-stride!  "The Doomsday Machine", "The Changeling", "The Ultimate Computer", "Journey to Babel", the Gary Seven episode...just great stuff.

BTW, I watch all episodes with the new FX, I love 'em.  Gives a nice updated look to it, I especially like that the photons are always the right color now and that the impulse engines glow red when in use, like the movies.  Nice continuity.

Since this has been 'revived,' I'll point out that all 3 season sets are on sale right now at Bestbuy.com, for $56. You can pre-order season 3.

The rest of Trek is on sale too btw, I ordered their delux bluray of the new film, that comes with some cool insignias, and a copy of Star Trek II-blu together for only $30. 

Thanks for the heads up, Zack!  Season 3 is pre-ordered with BB!

Nelson, my friend...thank you for your help while I was working out that pausing/PS3 issue.

Yes, I'm enjoying these too! Have watched them since the early 70s (and my babysitter dressed me as Spock when I was 4 in 1968--go figure!), and yet I'm still discovering new things in these shows. Watched Amok Time the other day, and it was just as amazing as it ever was. The first time I saw that episode, in c. 1975, I really thought they were killing off Kirk. I told my parents that maybe it was the last show they ever made.

Watched Amok Time with my son on blu a few days ago and it still makes you laugh, gasp, and even cry a little-- and then back to laughter again for the great little wrap up ending--"in a pig's eye!" Love the new special effects for this one. Opens it up and gives it a much more epic feel.

Theodore Sturgeon did a great job writing this episode. And the whole cast is stellar. Love this show on blu...

Amazon has now matched Best Buy on Season 3. $55.99

Question about  Wolf in the Fold from the season 2 Blu-ray.

My player shows that their is an angle change during the time the 'Redjac' entity is appearing on the monitor screen and when i play both version (Original & remas.) I can see no difference.

It happens again when Kirk & Spock are on the floor of the bridge looking through the panal at the electronics inside.

In both cases, my player shows there are 2 angles to choose from but when I switch or even when I play them all the way through i can see no difference at all.

I can see where they might have enhanced the monitor display scrren picture, but i can't think of anything they would/could have done to the other scene.

Any answers or thoughts?  Thanks.

I wish they would fix the minor mistake with Season One's City on the Edge of Forever. Since this episode is a classic I feel it should be presented as it originally was. There is one scene in which the angle button is supposed to be used to toggle back and forth from original to enhanced effects but it won't work.

Hey thanks. I really doubted there were any changes to those two scenes, but i thought another set of eyes might find something minor.

I'm 40% through season 2 now and after watching each ep. without pause i go back and watch them with the angle indicator on to see if i missed any remaster changes.

In season 1 I didn't realize they stabilized the guards hand as charlie made the phaser disappear. I hadn't noticed the changes as McCoy's face healed in Miri and a few others I can't recall this second, but they did throw in some nice minor fixes in a lot of episodes.

Hey, Nelson.  Where's the spiffy insert for this season?  What are we paying you for, anyhow?

Thanks in advance.
Doug

Okay, after watching about half of season 2 I have found several 'fixes' of 'broken shots' that i never saw anyone mention in the various reviews of trek Remastered.

We know ALL of the 'space shots' were redone as well as most of the main viewer shots and the new beautiful mattes are easy to spot, but the so called 'broken shots' are very cool.
This list by the way is all the 'fixes' i know of for season 2---not just the ones i found myself.

In production order...........

Catspaw----String removal on creatures, altered effect on gems appearance, cats face added to two shot looking thru dungeon door

Metamorphosis------ALL windows now open for interior shots in shuttle, rock formation removed and sky added on early surface shots.

Friday's Child------all 3 phaser shots by Klingon upgraded, Graphic chekov looks at over science station upgraded AND
very cool fix for reflection of briefing room monitor.
Originally when they did the overlays to add the content to various ships monitors they didn't add the reflection on the counter-tops.
Most noticable in the teaser for Friday's child when they show the natives on the monitor screens--in the original you see a bright white reflection on the table top rather than a reflection of what's being shown on screen. This has been fixed in many episodes AND may be the answer to my earlier Wolf in Fold question.

Who Mourns...-------the phaser hit on Apollo's temple

Amok Time--------the picture of young T'Pring is upgraded.

Mirror-Mirror------sparks added to Kles agonizer shot, rays hitting Chekov in agony booth

Apple-------phaser hits on "Vaal'

I, Mudd--------Norman's stomach panal upgraded

Trouble/Tribbles-----counter reflection added to Admiral's monitor speech, all shots looking out of Mr. Lurry's office windows have been upgraded

Private Little War----------background of first Mugato kill (by McCoy) stabilized from a real bad shake in original.

That's it so far---I'm sure I missed plenty and i noticed that many things various reviews sited as being changed for Remastered---WERE NOT.

For example in Mirror-Mirror when Marlena kills Sulu's henchmen the effect is NOT altered, sky NOT changed when lightning storm comes in Apple----same with trelayne's parents effect from season 1.
I think a lot of folks thogught stuff had been upgraded but it was simply that the HD clean-up made the original FX look so much better.

I add more as I find them.

Edited by Camper - 11/23/09 at 10:57am

Nelson, I think it's a good idea to post all 3 seasons once you get them done.  It certainly is much easier to find an episode on your single sheet rather than having to peer through the blue plastic (and remove the 7th disc to see the back listing) and read the tiny print.  However, we can survive until you're ready.  And, it's nice that you're so meticulous about the patch symbols, but personally I'm not that picky.

So, take your time until you're happy with your work.  Sorry I can't help with a solution for posting the files.
Doug

I'd be willing to host them on my website for you, if you'd like.