Posted by Jeff Rife on 12/19/05 22:10

J (speechee2@hotmail.com) wrote in alt.video.dvd:
> For old non-film stuff, effects in TNG for example, what was the original
> storage medium? Was it rendered and/or stored in anything more than NTSC
> resolution.

AFAIK, *all* Star Trek series except "Enterprise" had SD FX and were
finished to standard 480i videotape. There are no original elements
available (or not enough to matter) for either the live action or the FX.

It's interesting that shows from the 50s and 60s that were shot on film
and still have the original film intact end up looking far better on both
DVD and HD than do most shows from the 70s to the early 90s.

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| relationship...did you kill Coach Mattay?"
| "No!"
| "But, you did dress him up like a woman...?"
| "Yeah."
| "Just checking."
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