pittrek

Star Trek Animated will be released on Bluray later this year.

Sounds great 😃

For those of you who have seen the 2nd Daredevil season already, any idea when does it take place on the timeline?

TV’s Frink said:

PSST STAR TREK ISN’T REAL

😉

How dare you? Next time you will tell me Star Wars isn’t a historical drama.

Well legally they may be right (I’m definitely not an expert on American copyright laws) but they don’t understand the main rule - never piss off the fans 😃

That’s a lovely picture. It even looks like more detail can be seen on Chewie’s head

Tobar said:

doubleofive said:

The fact that Axanar raised money using the brand with the intention of using it to build a studio for their own use seems to be the actual sticking point.

This plus they were paying themselves a salary with the kickstarter money. Thereby actually profiting from the “non-profit” fan film.

But again - you will find on youtube many videos with people dressed up in starfleet uniforms, and/or speaking Klingonese, and getting money for their videos, also making a profit.

The Axanar situation is ridiculous. So basically every Star Trek fan film is infringing their copyright? And not only that, every youtube video in which the youtuber is dressed in a replica of a uniform is in legal trouble? Or any youtuber who speaks Klingon for fun in any videos? Are they really that insane?

I mean first Axanar, then attacking my channel and many other youtube channels, what will come next? Are they really that afraid that the Beyond movie and/or the new show will suck so much that they have to destroy any potential competition? Or are they simply hunting for money?

Jay said:

ElectricTriangle said:

Jay said:

I must be missing something, because most of the DC additions and alternate takes are an improvement (especially the bit about Scotty’s nephew, which wasn’t in the theatrical cut and caused Scotty’s subsequent emotional breakdown not to make sense) and the color balance and shadow detail are so much better on the DC.

Hunt mentions that he’ll have more news on Star Trek BDs, so I’m hoping we finally get properly restored versions of the rest of the filmography.

The Director’s cut is the dvd. The one labeled theatrical is the blu ray.

Ah, shit. The detail was pretty bad in the clip, and for some reason I had it stuck in my head that the Blu-ray was the DC.

That is absolutely a letdown. Hopefully Meyer’s participation in the UHD release means we’ll get the DC.

Yeah, I did it in an old version of Sony Vegas which can produce only 1080p videos, and if you stack 2 videos on top of each other detail gets lost.

The first Captain America was a pretty good movie while it was about Steve Rogers. As soon as he became Captain America, the movie lost me. The second Captain America was a fantastic action movie, it didn’t even feel like a superhero movie (which is a good thing) until the guy with the metallic wings appeared. The third movie is done by the same people as the second one afaik, so there’s a big chance it will be great.

Harmy said:

I disagree about these scans being a good reference - we don’t know how they were scanned or how the pics may have been manipulated, but mainly, we’ve seen quite a few prints by now and this is the only one that stands out as this radically different - I think it’s just a print that’s beginning to fade and thus has a red bias.
Even the GOUT and other old home video releases clearly show the walls as green/blue when saturation is boosted - remember the time when we took the GOUT as the best reference and everyone was correcting the Death Star walls to be grey and then we saw those Senator screening photos and someone tried boosting the GOUT saturation and those same kind of colors started coming out - it was a revelation. And sure, we may have gone a bit crazy in the hunt for the Technicolor look for a while, but that was because that’s how much of a revelation that was, and now we know better than to trust one reference beyond all others and we know to use moderation and our best judgement when doing the color grading but I’d hate to see us go back too far.

Thanks.

Now it looks like it has the correct amount of green in both the walls and the uniform.

The Tatooine shots look pretty bad

Not sure what I think about the costume, it’s hard to judge from a 2 second shot

Oh come on. You started a new account to post 4 times the same image? The last time I checked image-only posts were allowed only in off topic.Also the projects exist, why shouldn’t we be able to discuss them even if you don’t want to do any updates?

After reading the previous pages, I have to ask “the public” : What are you trying to achieve? Are you trying to get “the colours you prefer”, “the correct colours (whatever that means)”, “the most natural looking colours” or what?

The thing is everybody likes different colour palettes. There is no such thing as a colour palette which EVERYBODY would like so these discussions could go on forever with no result whatsoever.

Are you trying to achieve the look which George Lucas and Gilbert Taylor? Well good, but don’t forget that

• GOUT is completely useless as a colour source, the 80’s home video transfers are much better (except the contrast)
• Tatooine is supposed to be “hot”
• Tunisia sky is “greyish”
• Death Star wall panels are green-grey, not grey
• Tarkin’s uniform is much more green than the other officer uniforms
• R2 doesn’t have blue painting, it’s pretty dark, almost black
• production photos are USELESS FOR THIS
• things like shadows and highlights are very important, don’t mess with the contrast

Are you trying to make everything have the “real” colours? Then OK, production photos are PERFECT for this, but you are completely ignoring the original filmmakers “vision”.

That’s why I wanted to know what is the “goal” of this, because I have a feeling that Dr.Dre is trying to achieve something different than other people.

The diner scenes look great, the 3PO shot still looks a bit too green.

FanFiltration said:

pittrek said:

Was anybody else annoyed by the last episode of Agent Carter? The ending especially. It’s like they believe they will have a third season, which I seriously doubt because of the second season ratings.

Agent carter came back for a season two?

And it was quite good. Except the dumb ending.

As a person who thinks TESB is one of the two “perfect” Star Wars movies it’s hard for me to tell what I DON’T like about it, but after some thinking - I’d wish they would finish the Wampa subplot and put it into the movie. I also thought Luke’s training could be longer.

LuckyGungan2001 said:

I really liked season 1 of Rebels, but what I’ve seen of season 2 looks horrible. Kind of like the opposite of Clone Wars.

Me too. The last 2 episodes of Season 2 were the first episodes I liked from this season.

Now this is funny - Rod is joining the team too 😃
http://www.startrek.com/article/roddenberry-added-to-new-tv-series-team

Was anybody else annoyed by the last episode of Agent Carter? The ending especially. It’s like they believe they will have a third season, which I seriously doubt because of the second season ratings.

This new episode was so much better, but what the hell did they do the designs of Yoda and Anakin?

HanSoloShotFirstForever said:

It keeps telling me that I’m not putting in my password/username in correctly, but I know for sure I’m putting in the right information. And I keep getting pop-ups saying my flash player is out of date, but it isn’t. These ads aren’t letting me leave unless I quit my browser, even when I have AdBlock on. What gives?

There are ads on myspleen.org? I switched off adblock just to be sure but still I can see just the login form on all browsers.Are you sure you don’t have a virus? That Flash player update thing is very suspicious.

Much better, Dr. Dre. Nice work.