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I'll be passing on it. I've already got TOS on Blu-Ray, and The Animated Series will get its own standalone release later in the year, I believe, or perhaps early next year. For the films, I'm still happy with my 2-disc DVD editions of 1-6.
IMO, Paramount shouldn't have been allowed to (re)package their awful Blu-Rays with the excellent Trek Blu-Rays that CBS produces. Paramount simply repackages the same discs over and over again and expects people to keep buying them, despite having the same mediocre transfers and no new bonus features. The only exception in this case is The Wrath of Khan having a new transfer, but that's only because it has a little thread connecting it to the Abramsverse films. The other 5 original crew films will probably never get any more attention from Paramount.
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I'm considering it- I may have to settle for the TOS series by itself.
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I'll be passing on it. I've already got TOS on Blu-Ray, and The Animated Series will get its own standalone release later in the year, I believe, or perhaps early next year. For the films, I'm still happy with my 2-disc DVD editions of 1-6.
IMO, Paramount shouldn't have been allowed to (re)package their awful Blu-Rays with the excellent Trek Blu-Rays that CBS produces. Paramount simply repackages the same discs over and over again and expects people to keep buying them, despite having the same mediocre transfers and no new bonus features. The only exception in this case is The Wrath of Khan having a new transfer, but that's only because it has a little thread connecting it to the Abramsverse films. The other 5 original crew films will probably never get any more attention from Paramount.
Pretty much this, for me. If all the other movies had gotten the same kind of care they've given Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, then I'd happily buy the set. As it is, though, I'll hold off.
Instead, I bought last month's new edition of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, with a lovely remaster, the option of watching either of two cuts of the film, and nice extras. I want to encourage them to treat the other movies with such care, so I made a point of not waiting too long to get this, while at the same time still holding off on the others until they get similar treatment (of course alternate versions aren't options for all the movies, but both Star Trek - The Motion Picture and Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country do have multiple main/major versions).
I'd like to also get CBS's thoughtfully produced Blu-rays for the shows; I feel a little guilty that I've waited this long already, especially in light of the news their painstaking, expensive remaster of Star Trek: The Next Generation hasn't been as successful as hoped for, but I just wasn't in a position to buy them right when they first came out (or to watch them if I had, since we didn't have a high-def TV and a Blu-ray player until recently). I do plan to get them eventually, though, and I might pick up the animated series right when it comes out, to help demonstrate my support for the ongoing investments.
But the Paramount-controlled movies are another matter. I do very much want them, but it's hard to bring myself to shell out for the current BD editions that appear not to improve as much as they should (or at all) on decade-old DVDs in either a/v quality or special features. Aside from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, which I now have, the only Star Trek movies that seem to have really good presentations on Blu-ray are the recent "Kelvin timeline" movies, which unfortunately are the only Star Trek productions I have no interest in owning.
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I'll be passing on it. I've already got (...) The Animated Series will get its own standalone release later in the year, I believe, or perhaps early next year.
What is the added advantage of a Blu-ray TAS over the existing DVD TAS-box? How much more resolution do you need? You need to see the finger prints on the cells or the colouring in brush strokes under them?
D.S.
A lot of people said similar things in the early days of DVD... that VHS should be more than enough, etc. A few stragglers still say that now about Blu-Ray vs DVD, but most of them have moved on to complaining about UHD Blu-Ray vs Blu-Ray.
Personally, the more visual information on the disc the better, IMO. Not necessarily for my present TV or player, but as we constantly progress to larger and/or higher-quality displays in the home, older formats that may be adequate on a current, smaller flat-panel display will begin to show their age. A well-done Blu-Ray transfer will upscale pretty nicely to a 4KTV. A DVD won't; there's just not enough information to work with.
TAS is one of those animated series which exist in a format capable of being scanned at HD resolution, so why not? I never got around to purchasing the show (or any Trek show, for that matter) on DVD, so at this point I'm more than happy to just wait for the Blu-Ray instead. CBS hasn't disappointed me yet in the quality department, and I don't see why this release should be any different. I'm just sorry I won't be able to put DS9 Blu-Rays on my shelf beside TOS, TAS, TNG and ENT.
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I just have the remastered TOS DVD set and a 720p TV, but I've been reading on another board that some viewers are seeing "too much" when viewing the Blurays on a 1080p TV. Like they're seeing sets and costumes instead of the ship and uniforms. Texture overwhelming form.
I don't know if I would find it a problem, but I recall that even on my existing TV, an HD broadcast of ST III was a bit off-putting when I kept noticing the coarse fabric of the red uniforms or maybe Kirk's red civilian suit. That level of sharpness is loved by some but not by all.
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I wonder if the people who complain about "too much" being visible on Blu-ray ever saw a 35 or 70 mm presentation of a movie. There's more visual information there than on these discs.
In a movie theater you sit a lot further from the screen, whereas some TV viewers sit pretty close. So a lot depends on the acuity of your distance vision.
And often the theater projectionist doesn't bother getting a very sharp focus, it seems to me. Either that, or they're showing a print of the film that wasn't duplicated very sharply. These are issues from before today's digital projection era, of course.
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I refused to pay Amazon $209.99, but will gladly pay them $129.99.
Didn't need to be a psychic to see this price drop coming. Always happens on Amazon with initially overpriced Trek.
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