Posted by NunYa Bidness on 12/20/05 06:52

On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 17:10:04 -0500, Jeff Rife <wevsr@nabs.net> Gave
us:

>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.

Many are good. "Kung Fu" is pretty good. "Greatest American Hero"
is pretty good...

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