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It’s been Paramount’s strategy to do discs with all of their P+ Trek so my guess is that it will continue. From a financial point of view they’d be crazy not to take the few extra bucks once they’ve maximized streaming potential.

The official announcement says it will premiere on P+ and then be released on disc later on.

If discs still exist then I imagine it would - once the work is done there’s no reason not to get that extra bit of profit, and they are selling discs for new Trek shows rather than keeping them as P+ exclusives. But they’re not looking to disc revenue to pay for the production costs of the...

I think it’s just a combination of replication capacity, slowdown in restoration/remastering work due to pandemic, a desire to have some product out for the September Trek anniversary which Paramount seems committed to making a yearly cultural thing, and a desire to keep it at a price point that...

TNG remastered lost money if the sole metric is physical media sales, and when that project was done, that was the sole metric the studio was looking at. Throw in years of licensing fees for syndicating the show to local/cable stations and subscription streaming services and it’s a different...

I don’t think much has changed - the old reason is still the reason because it was a valid reason then and it is now. Paramount greenlit the HD remastering of TNG with the home video department funding the work. It apparently lost money where it mattered to the bean counters: the disc sales...

Yeah, that’s pretty awesome - yes to all of the above.

Now at the risk of being greedy - I’d love a seamlessly branched set with the Theatrical, Director’s Edition and the Special Longer Version - the latter is still my preferred version because it has the additional scenes, original effects and original sound design.

That makes a tremendous amount of sense - Paramount+ will presumably chip in a great deal of the budget and it’ll premiere as their exclusive. Given that streaming is far more lucrative than physical media sales in 2021 and beyond, this was the most likely avenue for the work to happen. If...

I wouldn’t be surprised if they didn’t either. In one pile I have my hopes, and in the other pile I have my expectations, and there’s not a ton of overlap between the two.

On the hope front, I am hoping for remastered BD versions either together or separately. I’m just not in a position to upgrade my projector to 4K this year (or to buy a UHD player and down convert to 1080p at home), so I’m hoping against hope for new BDs too.

While I’d love new special features, just a caution to keep expectations in check: Mission Impossible, Indiana Jones and other Paramount upgrades have been only old bonus features and old masters on the enclosed Blu-ray (if there is one).

I’m extremely skeptical that this is anything more than a misprint or mistaken listing but if it turns out to be legit, hooray.

Something tells me Stephen Collins won’t be getting a prominent position if they ever create new poster art.

Despite all of my, ehem, logical excuses for why it doesn’t seem like the best value for me got going, what you said is how I feel in my heart and what I think will win out.

It's not an unreasonable concern - it's happening everywhere, all the time. Ownership of media (whether physically or digitally) is falling out of favor with the public at large. I think the best thing that can happen for this - and it looks like it's already in the works - is putting CBS...

If they go back to the original transfer and put that in theaters without the DNR that was added to the Blu-ray, that still will look better than what's on disc.

I'm in the same boat. It becomes tricky for me because every scheduled screening takes place during a scheduled work day. So it's not just whether or not it's worth the $15 to see it on a screen not much bigger than what I have at home; it's also the question of whether it's worth using a...

I've noticed that TMP is booked into the auditorium with the smallest screen at my local theater - my screen at home is about the width of four ordinary theater seats. The screen in that auditorium is the width of six ordinary theater seats. I'm genuinely not sure that that is worth my time or...

If they had a new master, they’d promote it. TMP is not beloved by casual viewers or even many Star Trek fans. Those of us here who do love it represent a distinct minority. I’m sure that Paramount is aware that they sold all of six tickets to the Fathom TWOK screening I attended in 2016. If...

I agree with all of that! I hate how severely the opening credits are windowboxed for 3. I saw a slightly worn 35mm print of IV a few years ago that was more pleasing overall than the disc.

That doesn't seem quite fair. In the original set, Wrath Of Khan was clearly the best transfer as additional work had been performed on it, but TMP looked pretty good as well. If memory serves, TUC was significantly worse than the others, with TSFS, TVH and TFF not looking brilliant either...

No need to buy it separately on iTunes; it’s included as a bonus feature with the theatrical version.

Creation used to do them regularly in NYC when I was a kid and they haven’t been here recently. The 50th anniversary one in NYC was run by this shamelessly for profit company called Reed Pop that just doesn’t treat their customers right. Unlike creation, they oversell every event so you have...

Oh man, I really wanted to go this year and I just couldn’t get away.

Right, you can create a Twitter account on a web browser. You do not need a smartphone to use Twitter.

Nope, just access to a web browser. If you can access HTF, you can also access Twitter.

The director’s cut of 6 is available in HD via digital retailers at least.

I was frankly shocked that it came out on disc. I’m glad it did and I bought it but I would have understood if CBS left it exclusive to their service so they’d get people to pay whenever they wanted to watch it. But I’m guessing that the expense of putting the already existing masters onto a...

The short answer: Mad World is owned by MGM, which is much more willing to license content to third parties than Paramount. Criterion acquired the license, and they’re willing to spend more on bonus content than most home video labels. And Mad World is a personal passion project for Mr. Harris...