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Posted by Jeff Rife on 12/20/05 04:42
J (speechee2@hotmail.com) wrote in alt.video.dvd:
> Seems to me somewhat shortsighted, esp. in the case of Enterprise. Second,
> why would you throw away the original film? They only had to keep the 40
> min. that ended up in the show.
For "Enterprise", it's likely that they tossed the film since they stored
the final on HD digital tape. For TNG, DS9 and Voyager, the film didn't
have any of the FX, so keeping it buys you very little, since to redo the
FX for a DVD (or HD-DVD) would make a season set about 10x more expensive
than the outrageous prices Paramount already charges.
> Third, even in TNG era they knew about HD
They really didn't. TNG started in 1987, and even big-time CGI in movies
like T2 (1991) and "Jurassic Park" (1993) weren't rendered at full HD
resolutions. "2K" rendering (2048x1365 for the full 35mm frame) didn't
really hit until 2000 or so. Before that, something on the order of
1500x1000 or so would have been the upper limit, but even that was only
available to big-budget movies.
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