Star Trek: The Next Generation on Blu-ray

I can't see there being any scope for anything higher than 1920x1080 for decades. Until TV has completely switched from standard definition to pure 1080p HD channels at least.
 
Well all I can say is I hope we're not eating our words too soon. I've been hearing about Blu-Ray for probably about 8 years now, so it's not some fly-by-night format, and I think with movie prices being as they are now, it won't take long to quash DVD entirely, we just need devices to get a little cheaper and bundled into more things.

What would have been cool was if they made Blu-Rays have one HD layer and one SD layer that was readable by DVD players. Probably cheaper to bundle the DVD mind, but that would be cool.
 
halohippe said:
Yeah i had the last 4 seasons all bought on VHS as i think the BBC orignally only showed the first 3 seasons all in 1 go and then stopped. I think the VHS tapes came out 2 episodes per tape and these were released before they were shown on tv from season 4 onwards. Jeez thats about 20 years ago now!

I have all seven seasons on DVD but the quality on a HD tv is certainly lacking and converting to HD is going to be fantastic. I hope!
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i'll put you out of you misery :) the beeb ( bbc2 ) showed st:tng upi until the best of both worlds ep 1 ( season cliffhanger) ....it then turned into the longest "to be continued " of all time as SKY bouht the rights and had it until next gen finished
 
TALON1973 said:
i'll put you out of you misery :) the beeb ( bbc2 ) showed st:tng upi until the best of both worlds ep 1 ( season cliffhanger) ....it then turned into the longest "to be continued " of all time as SKY bouht the rights and had it until next gen finished
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:eek:

So that means I've not seen the final three or four seasons! As a kid I remember seeing this and DS9. I had better search out some dvds :o
 
I think I'll see what the taster BluRay is like and if the sfx (my iPad wanted to make sfx into STD (worse I'm posting from my iPad post ever)) and overall quality are up to standard then I think I shall e buying all the series once again. Damn Star Trek geekdom.
 
Hikari Kisugi said:
Stupid question, this was all 4:3 when filmed, how do they make a proper dvd release?
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Are you certain? There seems to be no official word either way. Some say it was filmed in 4:3, others say it was 16:9 but edited to 4:3 in post production.

EDIT: Just seen on The Digital Bits that is indeed 4:3. Frankly that's crap. I'd rather that they cropped bits off the top and bottom during the scanning to make it 16:9.
 
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If you watch it on a proper digital feed now, the sides will be cut off the screen, black bands, as with early sg1.
So what will they do, stretch to fill? Or just keep it all as it is, looking crap on the sides with big black panels on a blue rsy remastered digital production?
 
I'm hoping they do a stretch to fill. The detail won't be lost as there will be plenty resolution scanning the negatives and if it was framed well in 4:3 then no tops of heads will be chopped off. In that YouTube trail, Captain Picard is 4:3 but the ship is 16:9.
 
TALON1973 said:
i'll put you out of you misery :) the beeb ( bbc2 ) showed st:tng upi until the best of both worlds ep 1 ( season cliffhanger) ....it then turned into the longest "to be continued " of all time as SKY bouht the rights and had it until next gen finished
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Wrong buddy.

BBC2 actually showed best of both worlds part 2 and then stopped. And like i said you could buy the VHS releases before it came back to TV which like you correctly stated was SKY.
 
TALON1973 said:
i'll put you out of you misery :) the beeb ( bbc2 ) showed st:tng upi until the best of both worlds ep 1 ( season cliffhanger) ....it then turned into the longest "to be continued " of all time as SKY bouht the rights and had it until next gen finished
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Nope bbc2 showed all the treks for all seasons i should know i used to watch them every week till voyager finished showing on bbc2 around 2000 or somit.
 
I'm not sure what excites me most. The thought of Troi's blu-ray cleavage, or Riker's beard in all its glorious HD majesty.

SkeeterUK said:
Nope bbc2 showed all the treks for all seasons i should know i used to watch them every week till voyager finished showing on bbc2 around 2000 or somit.
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With the exception of Deep Space Nine (:p), I did the same. Though why I bothered with Voyager is any ones guess. :eek:
 
ok i'll put this bed once and for all ... i got the best of both worlds bit wrong ... by the 2nd part :P .. the rest is correct :-

This is the information that I found on Memory Alpha:

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The BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) was one of the UK broadcasters of Star Trek and is the parent company of BBC Worldwide, which in turn operates BBC America. The corporation had the rights to show Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek: The Animated Series, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager. They also have the terrestrial rights to show Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Star Trek Generations and Star Trek: First Contact - the rights to broadcast Star Trek: Insurrection were obtained by Five and the remaining film rights are held by Channel 4).

Initially, the BBC was the first-run broadcaster of Star Trek (12 July 1969-15 December 1971) and TNG (26 September 1990-6 May 1992, up to "The Best of Both Worlds, Part II"). After 1992, the first-run rights of TNG ? and later DS9 and Voyager ? went to Sky One, with the BBC showing the episodes several months later.

From 26 August 1992, the BBC instead repeated The Original Series, ending on 6 April 1994. The run of The Next Generation started again on 13 April 1994.

All of the Trek spin-offs were shown in an early-evening 6pm slot - TNG on Wednesdays, DS9 on Thursdays, VOY on Sundays - and as a result, several episodes had to be cut for violence and disturbing imagery, most notably the TNG episodes "Conspiracy" and "The Icarus Factor".

The BBC also refused to show the episode "The High Ground" due to political sensitivity over its content (stating that terrorism had succeeded in re-unifying Ireland), broadcasting the episode for the first time on 29 September 2007, nine years after the Good Friday Agreement brought the conflict in question to a largely peaceful end.

During their original run of The Original Series, the BBC had chosen not to show "The Empath", "Whom Gods Destroy" and "Plato's Stepchildren" due to concerns over 'sadistic' elements within the episodes making them unsuitable for the series time slot. These episodes were eventually shown during the 1992 repeat run. "Miri" was not repeated by the BBC until 1993 for similar reasons, following audience complaints after its original transmission.

The BBC broadcast two special evenings of Star Trek programming, each known as Star Trek Night, one in 1996 and another in 2001.

The BBC lost out in the bidding to broadcast Star Trek: Enterprise on terrestrial re-run to Channel 4 in 2001, and did not renew its repeat rights for the other series until 2006, when in July, Star Trek and Star Trek: The Next Generation returned to the screen - Star Trek in a late-night Friday slot, with TNG in a mid-afternoon Saturday slot (later following on from TOS in the Friday slot). Voyager repeat rights were taken by Five in 2005.



Sky One is a television broadcaster of Star Trek in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Sky obtained the first run rights for Star Trek: The Next Generation in 1992; prior to that the first run rights in Britain had been with the BBC, who had broadcast every episode from "Encounter at Farpoint" to "The Best of Both Worlds, Part II", excluding "The High Ground".

In addition to the first run rights for the rest of the series made to date, Sky One also acquired rerun rights to the episodes previously shown by the BBC and a TV movie version of "Unification I", which was shown on an exclusive "movie" channel rather than as part of the main run of the series.

The Next Generation was initially run on Sky One from "Encounter at Farpoint" being shown five nights a week at 5pm, with "Family" shown the day after the Sky showing of "The Best of Both Worlds, Part II" and the series then running all the way up to "Timescape". After this, "Encounter at Farpoint" was shown and the whole series was run again. "Descent" was held over to act as the premiere to the seventh season, which was run on Sunday evenings at 7 pm once it had completed production and was available to be shown. This was also the time slot used for the first season of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

Sky also bought the first run rights for Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Enterprise.

At first, the episodes of these later series were shown, as they were in the United States, with repeats between new episodes. However, Sky soon held back broadcasting new episodes and broadcast the entire series at once. After Deep Space Nine finished a season, Voyager would begin, and vice versa. Other shows that would fill the gaps included Stargate SG-1 and Andromeda.

Star Trek was moved to Sky Two for a short time, until that channel was taken off the air. Monday night at 8 pm was the traditional time for Star Trek. However, at the start of Enterprise Season 4, it was moved to Tuesdays. Star Trek's place was taken by The Simpsons. The final new episode of Star Trek was broadcast on 2nd August 2005. Episodes were also shown on the now defunct Sky One Mix channel.

Deep Space Nine's sixth season aired on Sky One from 19 October 1998 to 12 April 1999.
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source :- http://www.startrek.com/boards-topic/33342821/ST-TNG-Original-UK-Air-Dates_1276959127_33342821
 
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