Star Trek: Insurrection SE on June 7th (1 Viewer)

[Paul McElligott]

Doh!

Of course, he was modelled after a certain real-life Col. North, so maybe I was just referrig to the inspiration for the character as a way of saying how transparent it was.

Yeah, that's the ticket. At least, that's my story and I'm sticking to it.

 

[Sam Davatchi]

There was a topic on this before but I can’t find it. I was checking my DVDs and have to say that I still can not believe my eyes when I watch this deluxe super duper collector’s edition. How this transfer could pass by, I don’t know. It’s not even a soft transfer; it’s practically out of focus!


Original Edition


Special Collector’s Edition


Original Edition


Special Collector’s Edition


Original Edition


Special Collector’s Edition

It’s truly Special.

 

[John H Ross]

Scary comparison. I'll have to check that out. I was more concerned about the rubbish sound quality. But this softer picture does look pretty poor.

 

[David Podjasek]

Interesting... I have read quite a few reviews of this title (SCE) lately (been getting back into Star Trek after a period of disinterest) and none of them have mentioned this flaw...

 

[John Alderson]

Am I the only one who thinks the "sharper" one looks digitally sharpened?

 

[Tino]

I personally never trust screenshots. IMO, they are never really a true indication of quality. Too many variables (the poster's computer, my computer, etc...) that may alter the image.


I'm intrigued though and will do a comparison myself soon.


I do too.

 

[Scott Kimball]

There is discussion and screenshots on this in the HTF REVIEW thread.

While I agree that the sharper transfer is over-sharpened, the new release seems to have too much noise reduction, causing quite a bit of softness. Paramount did the same thing with Witness.

-Scott

 

[John Alderson]

I agree with Scott. Neither transfer is perfect. For me, on balance the new transfer is more film like than the original, but it could have been sharper.

 

[Qui-Gon John]

If I really saw the 2 DVD's one right after the other on my display and they looked like those screen caps, then I'd prefer the original one.

 

[John Alderson]

Adding to my above comments and reviewing the screenshots again, the "digital" enhancement I'm seeing *may* be due to the JPG compression used to post the screenshot. I already traded my old Insurrection in or I'd do A/B's myself.

 

[Sam Davatchi]

The screenshots are the exact representation of the image stored on your DVDs. I'm always careful with my screenshots here not to add jpg compression on the top.

 

[Jay Pennington]

...but they are jpegs. ??

 

[John Alderson]

Bingo.

 

[Guido Bibra]

A while back I tried to make a comparison of the two transfers and discovered that the old one was just sharpened very much. I don't know why the transfer is so soft, maybe it has something to do with the digital effects - but there's absolutely no detail missing in the new transfer, it's just that the sharpening has been left off.

I did a graphical comparison, but I'm still not allowed to post URLs here, sorry...

 

[Sam Davatchi]

Well, yes, but so what?

 

[Jay Pennington]

You said you introduced no jpeg compression, but, being jpegs, they have same by definition.