Chewtobacca said:
doubleofive said: The issue with that would be every viewscreen, phaser blast, and transporter effect has to be redone, meaning flipping back and forth between 1080p and less-than-DVD quality quite frequently. I don't think seamless branching is an option, you'd have to have the entire series on the discs twice.
This. TNG is simply not in the same situation as TOS. Even TOS space scenes look quite bad on BD: if I want to see the original effects, which I often do, it's less jarring to watch the DVDs.
What do mean the TOS space scenes look bad on the BD? May I remind you the special effect scenes done in the 1960s? Do they really look better on the DVD or is it just a problem of going from the HD non-space scenes to the non-HD space scenes?
Chewtobacca said:
Gaffer Tape said: I'd just hate for this new version to become the default TNG. It's quite a conundrum.
It is a conundrum. I suppose it would be possible for Paramount to include 480i (SD) encodings from the original masters, on the Blu-rays. That way the original effects would be preserved, there would be no jump in quality during the episodes, and at that resolution they would not take up much space on BD-50s, which are rarely filled to the brim anyway. Whether the studio would go to the trouble of doing this, I don't know, but it's a potential solution.
it might be the way to do. I'd prefer seemless branching, but in the case of STTNG, it might be too difficult to do.
I agree with Gaffer, in that I want the originals preserved, but I also understand the redoing of the effects, because it is impossible to have the original effects in HD. If you want the effects in HD, redoing them is the only way. But still the originals need preserved.