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Posted by Derek Janssen on 08/02/07 00:05
Aaron J. Bossig wrote:
> Doug Jacobs <djacobs@shell.rawbw.com> wrote in
> news:13asmkrlfvcot38@corp.supernews.com:
>
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>>I just heard that this November Paramount is going to be re-releasing
>>the first season of the original Star Trek series remastered in HD for
>>the low-low price of $217.99:
>>
>>http://www.highdefdigest.com/news/show/Paramount/Disc_Announcements/Par
>>amount_Unveils_Star_Trek:_The_Original_Series_HD_DVD_Details/815
>>
>>Are they crazy? I know that HD is supposed to be 6x the resolution of
>>standard DVD, but 6x the price as well?!
>>
>>You can get the red, yellow and blue DVD boxes that contain the entire
>>series for less than that. Makes no sense whatsoever.
>
>
> Yes, you can, and they look damn nice. Or, if you have the equipment and
> interest, you can choose to get an even better experience by buying the
> HD-DVD (and eventual Blu-Ray) versions. At a price, of course.
>
> This makes perfect sense to me: You can pay a resonable sum and get
> "very good" or more and get "Freakin' SWEET!!!". More money gets you
> more stuff, and you as a consumer get to make a choice.
>
> Not sure where the confusion is coming from.
>
Probably from people who don't know that this ISN'T the series that came
out on the "Red, yellow and blue boxes" three or four years ago--
It's that new print/sound remastered one with the fancy retro-CGI
effects that's been airing on local affiliates for the last *one* year,
and looks well into the Freakin'-Sweet end of the spectrum.
All Paramount's "40th Anniversary" talk at the time was to cover up the
then hostility against the fact that they were pushing the show for
Hi-def broadcast..And that the whole point of all that Fiddling-Around
that the purists were complaining about, was in trying to make a 1967
network-budgeted TV show look good in 1080 (in whatever form)--
Which is why they had to release it on HD-Combo disk, so all those that
weren't planning to get the new toys (yet) and wanted to pick up the
show on Plain Old DVD wouldn't complain about being "left out".
(I mean, c'mon, even the Digital Bits article the OP plagiarized half
his post from admitted it was the New show--
And even Bill made it sound as if you couldn't still get the Original if
you didn't like it.)
Derek Janssen (Explanation #6 in a series of 12)
ejanss@comcast.net
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