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  1. Joseph Burns

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

    I would dearly love to see this series on Blu-Ray. Barring that, remastering is better than nothing: the problem with macroblocking etc in early seasons may be due not to low bitrates or even the interlaced nature of the stuff, but just that the earlier compression efforts were less practiced...
  2. Joseph Burns

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

    Bitrates on early season TNG and DS9 are quite poor. Macroblocking is very noticeable even on SD sets. While its true that the low-key lighting on DS9 tends to run headlong into MPEG-2's (and most codecs) exploitation of human attention to light by tossing more data from shadow areas, I've seen...
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