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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Reverend: [QB] ^BluRay sales? It's a simple equation; if the cost of doing it (all expenditures included) is less than the expected sales revenue then they'll do it. If anything stretching it out over a decade is a bonus. The reason the recent shows will be easier is that there's a good chance the digital assets still exist. Not just the models and textures (at least some of which may still be serviceable) but the scene and animation files too. Once you have those you just need to re-render the same scenes at a higher resolution. ...Probably not nearly that simple, but a hell of a lot more straight forward and less labour intensive than starting from scratch. Plus the live action footage shouldn't need remastering. The early seasons of TNG on the other hand looks decidedly VHS in quality. This was exactly what the plan with Babylon 5. It was anticipated from the get-go that widescreen HD TV wasn't too far off so the whole show was shot in widescreen, with the intention to be able to come back latter and re-render and re-composite all the CG elements once the technology was available. The reasons it didn't work are threefold. Firstly because Netter (and possibly someone else who's name escapes me) didn't want to spend a couple extra grand on a special monitor that'd allow Foundation Imaging to frame their shots for anything other than 4:3. Secondly when Netter Digital took over from FI, they basically trashed the digital assets because they didn't know what they were doing (IIRC they were mostly the least experienced team members at FI that were poached to run Netter's new company.) And thirdly, WB who were entrusted with all the assets after the show ended (at their insistence) promptly lost them and let rats eat the live action footage (no joke!) With a bit of luck Paramount and it's employees have taken a bit more care with their property and such a project would at least be possible. I have no idea if it'd be profitable; that's for the bean counters to decide. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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