pittrek

I hate the "disneyfied" animation. But still. I'll check a few episodes, maybe I learn to like it

Great!

That's the correct spirit man :-)

I expected a "strong" woman and a talking pet. They added the woman already, but there's no talking pet. I guess the droid is the pet :-)

I just found online for episodes 5 and 6, no idea for which source they were made

Disc 1 subtitles

czech, slovak, english, italian, russian, bulgarian, croatian, romanian, turkish, slovenian

Disc 2 & 3

czech, slovak, english, italian, russian, bulgarian, croatian, romanian, turkish, slovenian, estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian

Discs 4,5 & 6

czech, english, italian, russian, bulgarian, croatian, romanian, turkish, slovenian

- meaning no Slovak subtitles for the OT

I'll rip the subtitles and PM you them when it's done

I live in Slovakia and I bought the Blu set here, can I help you somehow?

It's not really a "framerate issue" in the sense that it's an error. It just - I really can't describe it better - looks like The Hobbit @48fps.

Jesus, it sounds like chemo- or radiotherapy :-( I hope you don't have what I think :-( I really wish you good good health

Well after every update I'm more and more convinced this will be a politically correct Disney fairy tale set in a Star Wars environment, and not the exciting series we were promised

One technical question for you guys.

Why does season 4 of Enterprise looks so HORRIBLY WRONG? What happened? I know they changed from 35mm film to 1080p digital Sony cameras, but that doesn't explain why everything looks and moves so weird...

For 3 years of TOS, 7 years of TNG, 7 years of DS9, 7 years of VOY and 3 years on ENT we were used to the typical 35mm film @ 24fps -> video @ 30fps (or in my European case 25fps) look. Everything looked a certain way, everybody moved in a certain speed... Now suddenly everything looks like the Hobbit movies! The movement looks "faster", more "smoother" etc. I don't know if you guys know what I'm talking about but I hope at least somebody does.

I noticed the "effect" for the first time in 2006/7 when they broadcast Enterprise season 4 on TV here. I read online that they changed from film to digital, so I thought something went horribly wrong when they converted the footage from NTSC to PAL, that they've done something bad to the framerate and that's the reason why everything looks "faster". But now after I watched the whole season 4 on bluray I'm even more confused, the bluray videos run at 24fps, and the effect seems even more noticable and even more disturbing! It goes so far that I can't watch a whole damned episode without having breaks every couple of minutes. Or does it have to do something with the fact that the episodes suck? I don't know, but the overall effect is REALLY annoying and distracting.

Does anybody know what they did? I always thought that they filmed season 4 at 1080p/24fps. Now I actually start to think they filmed it in 1080i/60fps or something similar.

The more videos I see the less interested in this show I am. The characters seem too "disneyfied"

SilverWook said:

Even bad TNG is better than most other tv shows. How can you not get a good laugh out of the crew de-evolving episode?

Or how about the one with the good Dr. Crusher writhing in orgasmic bliss as a "ghost" enters her body? My personal favorite "bad" episode. ;)

 I know I'm a minority here but I LOVE these 2 episodes :-)

generalfrevious said:

Can the franchise ever recover from JJ Abrams, or was TNG the last good thing the franchise ever did?

 Well I personally did like the last (war) seasons of DS9 and the first 3 seasons of Enterprise

I hope your health problems are solved and looking forward to 15.4.2017 :-)

OK a couple of random comments to all the crap from the last 2 pages :

- Kirk NEVER raped an alien/robot chick. It never even got CLOSE to a rape.  I have no idea which show were you watching but it wasn't Star Trek

- what's wrong with women in miniskirts? I never had a problem with them. The audiences never had a problem with them. Even the actresses never had a problem with them! (Except the woman who played Gary Seven's assistant, she was the only one who ever complained). Is this what America has become in the last 50 years? A tyranny of political correctness?

- TNG aliens - I have never ever seen so realistically looking aliens as in TNG/DS9/VOY. Westmore's team did an amazing job. Unfortunately they started to do CG aliens in Voyager and later Enterprise, they look horrible. I'm also really glad they used humanoids, it's the most probable way how aliens would look like.

- no internal conflict on TNG - it's actually a GOOD thing. That's the reason why millions of people all over the planet LOVE the show. BECAUSE the main characters are friends, and the conflict always comes from the outside. It also adds a further element of reality. If you're away in space for 10 years you simply MUST like the people you meet on a daily basis. Otherwise you'd get crazy.

- Babylon 5 - I hate the look of the show. The colors, the lightning ... why is everything so blue? The makeup is really lame, why are centauri men just fat guys with weird punk hair and all their females are skinheads? At least G'Kar's makeup looks interesting. And the CGI looks HORRIBLE. It looked HORRIBLE by 90's standards, and it looks even worse by today's standards. However I LOVE the show. The characters are highly likable, the stories are great, I love the complexity of the show...

Beeb = BBC

Are all the great directors getting colorblind with the age? Or do they think the "blu" means that the movies should get blue/cyan/green tint?

First of all if you're using Nero or something similar to burn the VIDEO_TS folder to a DVD be sure you burn it as a "video DVD" or what's it called in newer versions, and not a "data dvd"

TV's Frink said:

pittrek said:

Up again after several hours

 *childish giggle*

 Come on, that's a serious medical problem :-(

Anyway, I didn't have any problems in the last 2 days (fingers crossed)

Nice

OBI-WAN37 said:

There are more miniatures and models in each Star Wars prequels than entire OT. The whole "there's too much CGI" is not true. I've seen people comment on TFN saying they prefer the original trilogy but still know there are more models and miniatures in the PT.

 There are absolutely NO (= 0 ) miniature ships in episodes 2 and 3

Up again after several hours

I can't believe I'm the only one who commented on the workprint :-) Your Star Wars workprints were very succesful and this one is ignored? :-)

And one small problem during the training scene (with Yoda on back) - every time there is a cut the colour palette changes a bit. Again, not sure if it's supposed to look this way