With the release next week of the third season Blu-ray of the heavily remastered and restored "Star Trek: The Next Generation," eyes are turning towards the fourth season and lingering concerns.
The first and third season of the restoration were handled by CBS Digital who did an incredible job according to all the reviews. The second season however was handled entirely by another company, Htv Illuminate, with the plan at the time to let them do the even numbered seasons (2, 4, 6) while CBS handled the odd numbered ones.
Reviews and feedback for the second season were far less glowing. While CBS went above and beyond with their visual effects work, Htv's efforts were decried for being decidedly sub-standard in the case of quite a few shots.
Gone was the dynamic lighting and the high-resolution planets, in its place were some shots that looked little better than the standard DVDs. Soon after the S2 release,...
The first and third season of the restoration were handled by CBS Digital who did an incredible job according to all the reviews. The second season however was handled entirely by another company, Htv Illuminate, with the plan at the time to let them do the even numbered seasons (2, 4, 6) while CBS handled the odd numbered ones.
Reviews and feedback for the second season were far less glowing. While CBS went above and beyond with their visual effects work, Htv's efforts were decried for being decidedly sub-standard in the case of quite a few shots.
Gone was the dynamic lighting and the high-resolution planets, in its place were some shots that looked little better than the standard DVDs. Soon after the S2 release,...
- 4/27/2013
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
The second season of the expensive and exhaustively painstaking remaster of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" hits Blu-ray in a few hours following on from the highly successful launch of the first season back in July.
Aside from an audio glitch in early discs, which was quickly remedied with a replacement program, the remastering job performed on the first season was met with universal acclaim by reviewers and Trek fans alike.
Post-production house CBS Digital was widely, and deservedly, lauded for their work which is amongst the best restorative work ever done on a Blu-ray title in the history of the format. Same goes for Robert Meyer Burnett and his team who have been assembling some truly incredible extras for these sets.
As a result of the quality of all this hard work, many were keenly awaiting this second season set which contains some of the best early episodes of the season.
Aside from an audio glitch in early discs, which was quickly remedied with a replacement program, the remastering job performed on the first season was met with universal acclaim by reviewers and Trek fans alike.
Post-production house CBS Digital was widely, and deservedly, lauded for their work which is amongst the best restorative work ever done on a Blu-ray title in the history of the format. Same goes for Robert Meyer Burnett and his team who have been assembling some truly incredible extras for these sets.
As a result of the quality of all this hard work, many were keenly awaiting this second season set which contains some of the best early episodes of the season.
- 12/4/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
A quick confession before we begin. I was never a huge fan of the original Star Trek series from the sixties, and while I have grown to appreciate it over the years, it never felt like it was mine in the same way that The Next Generation does. The reason for this is because the first season of Tng, which has just materialised on Blu-ray, began while I was in my teens, and I followed it religiously, watching each episode as it was originally transmitted, and then again and again by way of my friend Al's vast VHS collection of the original releases.
That said, my last viewing of a Next Generation episode was a good decade ago, during which time Blu-ray has become an accepted, nay essential, part of any serious television and movie fan's viewing experience, and so when the news originally broke that Tng was to be...
That said, my last viewing of a Next Generation episode was a good decade ago, during which time Blu-ray has become an accepted, nay essential, part of any serious television and movie fan's viewing experience, and so when the news originally broke that Tng was to be...
- 7/25/2012
- Shadowlocked
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