Where resolution is concerned i think 2K is the sweet spot they’ve decided on for Star Trek television and 4K for the films. Although only the Kelvin films and The Wrath of Khan have 4k masters, and Deep Space Nine And Voyager haven’t been scanned in 2k yet. Enterprise is close enough with 1080P filmout tapes.
I cannot see them going back and doing TOS again in 4K.
Has anyone listened to the analog audio off the US discs yet, analog audio can be quite good.
I’m tempted to get some of the episodes on Laserdisc just to listen to them.
The recent 4K and BD releases of the remastered The Motion Picture, The Wrath of Khan, The Search for Spock, and The Voyage Home all appear to be stellar. Future sets along with The Motion Picture - The Director’s Edition remastered in 4K are more than eventual and the latter is currently being worked upon.
The Roddenberry Vault BD release uses AVC instead of VC-1 which was used on the TOS BD Season sets. The former only has episodes culled from Seasons 1 and 2, none from 3. Would have been nice to see further volumes but perhaps Paramount nixed the idea. The aforementioned Roddenberry Vault has far better compression for the episodes included compared to the Season sets. All of the episodes in both the Season Sets on BD and The Roddenberry Vault are the original broadcast versions and not syndicated as many prior releases were. Of course it has the revised/“updated” effects via seamless branching.
The Dolby Digital Mono tracks on both BD releases are unfortunately low bitrate instead of PCM, which is most likely on Laserdisc. The Season Sets on BD are unfortunately presented in broadcast order instead of production order.
I wasn’t aware that they were going to remaster films 1, 3-6. The TNG films etc. Or that Strange New Worlds would be shot in 4K and have a 4K DI. Even though there are no plans for an HDR UHD release at this point. So the TV shows are now being produced in 4K or one is. They still have no plans for Discovery or Picard 4K disc releases. Which mostly would be upscaled. Also Tos and TNG are never going to be 4K remastered, and Voyager and Deep Space Nine will remain in sub DVD quality. There is never going to be a 2k remastering. As for the films 1-6 stellar releases. But no original stereo audio. Two steps forward and one back. At least they got rid of the revisionist lowry color timing, most of the DVNR. and the fake sharpening which was applied to the 2009 blu releases. I mean on the theatrical only. The directors is a different story. They redid the color cast and dvnr’ed the crap out of it. Its a Lucasized version. But at least you can get the original which is great.