pittrek said:
I absolutely LOVE the remastered BDs of TNG. I just love them. The documentaries are just excellent, the deleted scenes are an amazing addition, and the HD scan and colour correction is simply mind-blowing.
There are however things I don't like :
- extreme, extreme DVNR on Season 2,
- very bad compositing of some of the SFX scenes. mainly on season 2, but also on a few scenes in season 4
- some of the colour correction - well, I prefer the DVD colours, and also I don't understand why they made some scenes darker, but this is again mainly visible in seasons 2 and 4
- I don't like the fact that they're CG-ing some of the SFX scenes, to be honest I would prefer the elements to be upscaled from the SD tapes
- Dan Curry's team was shooting models in 30fps, their movement looks weird in 24fps
Even with these problems I don't regret buying the blus and I definitely WILL buy the whole show, and of course any other shows they release in HD
- I agree that the DVNR in the live-action special effects shots is the one thing I cannot stand about the Season 2 blurays. I can look past the sub-par compositing and some of the low-rez planet shots, but the noise reduction is really distracting.
- About the color... I don't know, I agree it can be a tad over-saturated, but the DVDs look dull and lifeless.
- I can't agree with you on the CGI, however. Although the CGI isn't perfect, the original composites were done on analog composite (ie: color and luma mushed together) videotape, so they are low-resolution and riddled with video noise. Look at Trek Core's before and after of Booby Trap http://youtu.be/Fb_KdXgOhTk?t=4m18s
- I know they scanned Curry's effects shots at 24 and then sped them up about 135%, and I've tried hard to find any artifacts even going so far as to stare at the screen from 5 inches away during Yesterday's Enterprise, but I could not find anything weird, apart from a little less motion blur. Although, in Identity Crisis, when they are on the planet looking for transformed-Geordi at the end, that sequence was shot at 30 fps and there is an obvious skipped frame during a camera movement, and the overall quality is blurry.