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According to someone else on another forum: According to the Digital Bits' FB page, they fully expect Paramount to correct the Sulu edit. Nothing official, but it's hopeful at least. Quote: It happens. I watched the film twice and missed it. The good news is that Paramount will certainly fix...

I'm sure it will be 14.99 on release day.

What bothers me most about the original Trek movies on Blu-ray: it's evident the source material was in good shape and these could have been very solid 2K scans IF they wouldn't have used DNR and boosted the contrast. There is some edge enhancement baked in which doesn't help either (probably...

Best Buy is going to be selling it for $14.99, so I would expect Amazon's price of $15.99 to be more likely.

Well said. Another thing I rediscovered (visually speaking, that is) with the first movie is when I went front projection. This movie was made for a big screen. Some of the shots just give it a look that I could really appreciate what they were also trying to do here. The current Blu is not...

I guess we all have our own preferences. For me, I & II are by far the best of the originals. The first movie is epic in some ways and I really like the intellectual aspects of it while the second movie changes style and gives us some action along with tying back to an original villain.

It would be interesting what the color will look like compared to the original disc. I thought the original disc looked very good albeit a tad more blue, but I figured it was because I was used to the red-push of the DVD. Of course, even though Meyers was involved in the color timing of the...

Kevin, You do realize that Terminator 2 was re-released last year by Lionsgate with the same transfer, but WITHOUT the DNR and it looks much better compared to the Skynet version. More film grain structure and overall detail is intact now. I've compared both of them. The overly smooth, waxy...

I read something over at the Blu-ray site that quotes what Bill Hunt had posted at Facebook. The short of it is, some of the newer people running things at Paramount don't have film backgrounds and are not aware of the Trek culture, impact, and popularity. Therefore, they are unwilling to take...

To be clear, I don't believe Paramount is actually doing a new scan for Wrath of Khan; I think it's the same scan, but they are just creating a new master from it which will likely entail a hopefully improved color grading. Now, I did feel the current BD disc looked very good but skewed a...

Very disappointing. I guess though from a sales perspective they only see value in milking out WoK.

That's very cool you got to see that! I think the source material Paramount used for the Blus was fine; if they would have just not used EE, DNR, and contrast boosting I think most would be fine with these. As they are today, they look like they were filmed with a 720p digital camera. Ugh...

I'll be surprised if Paramount even supports UHD BD.

Universal has seen the light. Paramount refuses.

To each his own, but in my opinion most of the original Trek movies are rather poor in PQ and do not look like film at all. The DNR and contrast boosting is atrocious once you get to third movie and later. The edge enhancement doesn't help either. However, aside from a small number of titles...

I think the bigger issue is Paramount. They and Universal have for the most part been the biggest major studio disappointments when it comes to the support of Blu-ray. Other than the first two movies, I refuse to waste the lamp hours on my projector for the other movies as they look awful on a...

Aside from the first and second movie, these look rather poor projected. Khan in particular looks very good and film-like.

Kevin, I'm frankly not happy with the way Paramount has handled Blu-ray in general.

How come? Color?

Trust me, at 124" on my professionally calibrated JVC front projector and Stewart ST100 reference screen (which is commonly used in studio post production work) you don't want to watch them except for the first two. These older transfers would have looked MUCH better if they didn't apply...

They look fine if you prefer the 'digital' look (which many people evidently do).

In my opinion, except for the first two movies, the transfers are very disappointing. They have a very processed look to them with edge enhancement, boosted contrast, and heavy DNR - and look very poor on a front projection set-up. Unfortunately, I do not expect penny pinching Paramount to do...

Paramount - by and large - has been a poor supporter of Blu-ray in terms of quality and quantity. Universal gets blasted a lot, but Paramount is at least as bad. I would not expect any new transfers of Star trek either from this studio.

Watching TMP on a projection set-up really gives a certain appreciation of the scale of what they achieved with this movie.

Can you do me a favor and post the time stamp? I would like to take a look at it again. Thanks.

I see some people complain about the blue push in II, but I just watched this recently on my pro calibrated projector and didn't see where there was an issue. I think the DVD pushed red too much and some were just used to it.

Agreed, they look very processed and nothing like film.

The original cast movies badly need new transfers. The first movie looks pretty good (although not optimal), the second movie looks great scanned from 4K, but the rest of them....ugh DNR/EE city. :(

Indeed, TMP does have an epic feel. I recently watched this on my CIH front projection set up (9 foot wide screen) and it was just a phenomenal experience. It was definitely made for the big screen.

Agreed. Aside from Khan, even though these might have been older transfers, I think they would have been fine if they had not DNR'd them. This is true for a lot of Paramount catalog titles.