MarkBourne
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Because the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 7 boxed set doesn't street until Dec. 2, this question is a bit premature for most HTFers who just clicked the link. However, yesterday I received the review set for DVD Journal (where I've been doing all the TNG and DS9 reviews), and I noticed something that perhaps some other previewers from other DVD sites can either confirm or deny for me.
The set arrived this week ahead of schedule, so because the Journal aims to get a DVD's review up the week it's released, this is one of the few times when I've received a DS9 set early enough to luxuriate in it, relax, and give it a feet-up-on-the-coffee-table viewing without the looming cloud of deadline pressure. So perhaps I've just missed this little bug before.
I'm noticing on several episodes a peculiar video noise that faintly covers the screen, something like light "snow" from the pre-cable days. It pulses at a rate of about two "beats" per second, up, down, up, down. It's of course particularly noticeable in dark scenes, a case in point being the ep "Siege of AR-558," a grim battlefield drama composed in dark hues from start to finish. When it's present the noise tracks with any slow-mo or step-framing I do, so it's not an effect of my player.
The phenomenon isn't on every ep (perhaps three of the eight I've enjoyed so far), nor does it exist throughout any full hour. So the problem is by no means a show-stopper and won't change the fact that I've come to utterly adore the series throughout these seven boxed sets. But it is an oddity and a distraction.
Now, it's one thing to see it appear in an episode where we might imagine and (in my case, anyway) forgive some sort of unavoidable source master problem, but it's another to see it happen again in one of Disc 7's new "featurettes" about the series' finale. It's there just as plain as in one of the regular episodes.
I haven't noticed the effect in a previous set, so I'm wondering if any other reviewer or purchaser sees it -- or could it be (against the odds, but hey) a singular weirdness exclusive to my reviewer's copy?
If others see it, I'll mention it in the capsule review for Dec. 2.
Anybody?
Thanks much.
--mb
The set arrived this week ahead of schedule, so because the Journal aims to get a DVD's review up the week it's released, this is one of the few times when I've received a DS9 set early enough to luxuriate in it, relax, and give it a feet-up-on-the-coffee-table viewing without the looming cloud of deadline pressure. So perhaps I've just missed this little bug before.
I'm noticing on several episodes a peculiar video noise that faintly covers the screen, something like light "snow" from the pre-cable days. It pulses at a rate of about two "beats" per second, up, down, up, down. It's of course particularly noticeable in dark scenes, a case in point being the ep "Siege of AR-558," a grim battlefield drama composed in dark hues from start to finish. When it's present the noise tracks with any slow-mo or step-framing I do, so it's not an effect of my player.
The phenomenon isn't on every ep (perhaps three of the eight I've enjoyed so far), nor does it exist throughout any full hour. So the problem is by no means a show-stopper and won't change the fact that I've come to utterly adore the series throughout these seven boxed sets. But it is an oddity and a distraction.
Now, it's one thing to see it appear in an episode where we might imagine and (in my case, anyway) forgive some sort of unavoidable source master problem, but it's another to see it happen again in one of Disc 7's new "featurettes" about the series' finale. It's there just as plain as in one of the regular episodes.
I haven't noticed the effect in a previous set, so I'm wondering if any other reviewer or purchaser sees it -- or could it be (against the odds, but hey) a singular weirdness exclusive to my reviewer's copy?
If others see it, I'll mention it in the capsule review for Dec. 2.
Anybody?
Thanks much.
--mb
Although -- nodding to Colin -- yes, if I'd paid the $100 for my set I'd be puckering my brow pretty tightly about the noise/grain issue that I'm seeing. Hence my asking here to see if it's really a problem in the Season 7 set or just a gremlin in my machinery. Thorough reporting and all that.
