Posted by J on 12/20/05 06:22

"Jeff Rife" <wevsr@nabs.net> wrote in message
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>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.

Assuming your info is accurate then, we can forget about any pre-ENT
rereleases, except maybe VOY S7 which ended in 2001 I think. I wonder where
one could find the technical details like resolutions, software used, etc.,
for a particular show. That would all be v. interesting.

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