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Synnöve
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Info: Star Trek HD Caps
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8-Sep-2016, 3:15 PM

I mean, I don’t know if I’d say they are better than the blu-rays; they just have different weaknesses. Admittedly I’ve only seen the TMP capture, but compared to the Blu-Ray, while the color timing is more in keeping with previous sources, and there is much more shadow detail, it is incredibly dirty with poor grain management and a TON of compression artifacts.

When I was working on my TMP fan edit, I was trying to combine the shadow detail and highlights from the broadcast, with a color corrected version of the blu-ray. Combined with a nice layer of grain over the final composite, it yielded the best qualities of both sources. Unfortunately, doing this for the whole movie would be way too time consuming because you need to transform the geometry of one print to match the other, which can change even in the same shot!

One reason I gave up and decided just to wait for a new transfer or a 4k Blu-ray ; )