A bunch of TNG DVD reviews. As expected, the quality is good, but not groundbreaking (hey, it's from 1987, give it a break!). I hope I can afford all seven boxes, but I'll surely buy this one ("Don't call me Shirley!").
Posted by Grokca (Member # 722) on :
Shirley
Posted by CaptainMike (Member # 709) on :
I'm not a DVD boy yet, but I hope this means that we will have plenty of screencaps to discuss season 1 VFX and ships for a while.. should we start a project when somebody gets the DVD?
Posted by Flower Man (Member # 780) on :
I'll concentrate on ST movie DVDs. Posted by Vogon Poet (Member # 393) on :
I could really do with more Dustbuster Phaser screencaps (hint hint). . . 8)
Posted by Vice-Admiral Michael T. Colorge (Member # 144) on :
Yay, I just bought the DVD set at Costco for $94.99. Damn I hate the taxes here in California. Anyway, I'm off to do my 20 hour TNG Season 1 marathon til I go back to school Tuesday.
[ May 07, 2002, 00:00: Message edited by: Vice-Admiral Michael T. Colorge ]
Posted by Malnurtured Snayer (Member # 411) on :
Don't you mean 26-hour? Maybe not, with commercials. Hmmm. Don't you live in Florida?
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
Season 1 screen caps...
The inside of the starbase in 11001001... All the schematics and info from Data's info scanning in "Conspiracy"!!
Posted by Malnurtured Snayer (Member # 411) on :
Like the upside-down parrot?
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
"Don't you live in Florida?"
I think you might be thinking of Jordan.
Posted by Vice-Admiral Michael T. Colorge (Member # 144) on :
Snay, I live in the Los Angeles area. Which is why I was able to score some tickets to tour the Paramount Studios lot on April 15.
Posted by The_Tom (Member # 38) on :
Too bad Enterprise shooting wraps five days earlier.
Posted by Malnurtured Snayer (Member # 411) on :
Not that he'd get to see the sets, anyway. When I did my studio tour roughly ten years ago, the only sets I got to see was that cave structure from "The Circle" and a bunch of DS9 extras.
Posted by Ryan McReynolds (Member # 28) on :
quote:Originally posted by Malnurtured Snayer: Not that he'd get to see the sets, anyway. When I did my studio tour roughly ten years ago, the only sets I got to see was that cave structure from "The Circle" and a bunch of DS9 extras.
I took a tour in 1998. As I am fond of bragging to those few who care, I got to visit the Defiant bridge and corridor, and walk the DS9 promenade. It was hiatus, so there was debris everywhere and all of the control panel monitors were missing. Ops (according to the guide) was prepped for filming the later-scrapped DS9 cameo in Insurrection, but that may or may not be accurate. In any case, we couldn't see it. Also for Insurrection, the Enterprise-E sets weren't open, but we walked into the soundstage and got to see the big wooden outer walls of the bridge and engineering. There was also the shuttle cockpit and surrounding green-screen suspended above us, presumably just to get it out of the way.
Look for a short Asian guide and try to be in his tour. He specifically said that we weren't allowed in, but let us in anyway, and that makes him okay in my book.
Posted by Vice-Admiral Michael T. Colorge (Member # 144) on :
I'll look for him then Ryan. This actually is my third tour in Paramount Studios.
Posted by Spike (Member # 322) on :
I just saw at trek5.com that they have screenshots of "Mission Farpoint". Now my questions to everyone who already has the season 1 dvds: Is the video quality really that poor? Even the TOS screenshots are better and I would think that the video quality of TNG should be better than TOS.
Posted by Matrix (Member # 376) on :
Mine is fine and I am using PS2 as a DVD player. (Hey it saves money since my little brother got it and he can only hook it up to my TV anyway).
But in all seriousness, I really don't see that much difference in quality over VHS or DVD. Unless you ae nitpicking the movie or something like "I see a 5, not a 4!" or "I can see Troi's nipple!"
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
I bought it! Hooray for me!
Uh, anyway, I haven't had a chance to watch it much yet, and probably won't for awhile; the little bit I did watch was on my friend's laptop, so I can't really address what the quality would look like on a television. But, from everything I've heard, the transfer is less clear than it could have been, but better than when the show was actually broadcast.
Posted by Austin Powers (Member # 250) on :
I've got the region 2 version and have been watching eps for a couple of weeks now. I think that the quality is: a) awful - compared to what DVDs are capable of b) ok - compared to what the videos were like c) better - compared to any of these eps as seen on TV
Overall I'm quite happy with the set. I especially like the extras - TPTB really showed care in arranging the bonus materials. That makes me long for the next season - I've already pre-ordered all of them...
And if you have the french, italian and spanish language versions - listen to them, just for the fun of it. It can be hilarious at times, trust me.
Posted by Harry (Member # 265) on :
I received the Region 2 box today. Looking good! The case is quite strong, but too bad someone had decided to put a hideously large sticker on it for some weird advertisement. It's still all dirty and sticky...
It's pretty thorough actually. They even cared to break up all eps into searchable chapters, and the menus are LCARS and cool.
But anyway.. if anyone has screencap requests, be my guest.
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
"a) awful - compared to what DVDs are capable of"
To be fair, what are you comparing this too? TV shows made in the past couple of years, and films that were made at a higher resolution.
TNG season 1 does look fairly shit. The quality of the film seems to take a large upturn at the start of season 2, and then again for season 4. So later DVD sets should look better.
Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :
Harry ... I wouldn't mind a screencap of the menu, actually.
Posted by Vice-Admiral Michael T. Colorge (Member # 144) on :
I saw that the Region 2 cases look better to the cardboard containers that the US version has.
Posted by Harry (Member # 265) on :
There's a new section called TNG Season One (what a coincidence!). There's also a new screenshot (well, two actually) of Ilia in her Phase Two uniform.
Posted by Austin Powers (Member # 250) on :
@ Psy: about the "a) awful"-comment. Of course I know you can't compare TV show to film quality. I just wanted to portray my first reaction to the episodes as seen on DVD. That's also why I made a difference in a) b) and c). Actually I quite like the overall quality.
It's just that I was so used to top quality film DVDs (I've never bought any DVDs that hadn't been tested as top-grade) that it was a little disappointment to see the TNG picture quality. But as I said, it's far better that anything I have seen of TNG on TV.
Posted by Vice-Admiral Michael T. Colorge (Member # 144) on :
Well it does look better than when I first saw Season 1 episodes, which is nice. I love the tech stuff on how Mike Okuda created the LCARS and other things... maybe I could try making interior sets of the Prometheus based on what I saw in Cinema 4D.
Posted by Thoughtchopper (Member # 480) on :
Boys, if you're looking to score these season sets, hit the pawn shops.
I just found and bought the Season One set for...get this...Twenty-two dollars.
That's right. Some poor bastard shelled out the hundred and ten bucks for this damn thing, and then sold it to a pawn shop, apparently to buy beer or crack or whatever, and here we are.
Looking it over, there are only minor dings on the covering...the DVD's are virtually flawless.
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