Animaxx said:
They look a little on the soft side (probably due to noise and grain reduction). Let’s wait and see.The general softness can mean that they are free from edge enhancement.
But I agree that on gradients and low contrast areas there’s almost no detail. Compression is really hard here.
On the other hand DVDs usually have macroblocks on such areas…
Yeah, it’s always something, isn’t it? With the original first 90 seconds of the pilot I provided I had similar issues. When doing the filterwork (with sharpening especially) i stumbled across the same damned thing.
When avoiding edge enhancement, it looked soft and lacked detail, when sharpening to much blocks appeared (really bad when pausing the cube destroying the excelsior class vessel, the saucer being ripped apart showed heavy blocks in the red explosive areas, almost like a mosaic).
It’s too bad that in the old days they basically had the means and the equipment, but technology in the consumer segment didn’t support what was there, so they had to squeeze and reduce until it made it onto the old screens. A shame, really.
Many of the old shows suffer from it.
Anyone seen an episode of Earth: Final Conflict lately? Same thing. Details are so hard to spot. The DVDs improved things a little, but still - with the effects they did back then it’s a disgrace there is no HD for it, just like DS9 and Voyager.