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*sigh* Should'a known this was coming. I know it's gonna look cool, but there's no way in hell I'm going to buy that!
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WizArtist II
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It's GEORGE LUCAS's fault!
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I wouldn't be against it if they got FX people who had worked on previous Trek series before. "In house", I don't get it.
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Derail: The Digital Bits has a moment in their coverage of this that reminds me of why I tried to write a nerdy takedown on a defunct media nerd blog.
quote:Unlike, say... the Star Wars films... the original versions of these episodes will always be preserved in GREAT remastered quality on DVD.
Always, huh? Digital media is crazy shortlived compared to earlier technologies like vegetable pigments smeared on cave walls, in terms of both physical and cultural durability. Who will have even heard of DVDs, beyond weird old people, in ten years? (Well, OK, maybe a lot of people, because the reverse question is, does anybody really want an HD-DVD or Blu-Ray player?) And if your DVDs have survived in your attic, has your player? (Moving the data off those physical disks is, of course, contra-MPAA and thus highly illegal.)
So, anyway, in summation: The Digital Bits - Naive in their promotion of a format or formats. (I read it every day, though.) Star Trek Shinier Edition - Potentially neat, especially given the Bits' suggestion of putting both versions on the disk; but I am ideologically opposed to this kind of revisionism I guess, so before I bought them I would have to fight somebody. Next-gen DVDs - totally lame.
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Well all I have is standard dvd player and that was mainly for the Star Wars DVDs. Itake it this blu-ray and hd crap won't play on it.
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Standard DVDs work on all Blue Ray and HD-DVD Drives. This is dramatically changes the way we will buy movies in the future, since movies will most likely be released in both Standard DVD and HD-DVD for the next 5 or so years. As long as optical discs are used to store movies, DVD, HD-DVD, and whatever future format will easily read your 20 year old DVDs.
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Daniel Butler
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What's the problem? You can still see the old versions. If you don't wanna see the new ones, don't. Myself, I wont' buy them, but I'll definitely torrent them. -_-
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I think it's freakin' GREAT. Not only will it clean up a lot of distracting stock footage shots, it'll likely show us all the cool space battles we've speculated on forever and it'll introduce a whole new generation to TOS.
Spock's Brain will always suck though.
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