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Yvonmukluk posted:But then you miss out Lower Decks. Oh no, how terrible for them
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Tighclops posted:Oh no, how terrible for them Hey, it's good actually.  Keep in mind, McMahan pitched it to CBS, it's not some executive mandate. The guy knows & loves his Trek.
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ST09 was fine and so was Beyond. Into Darkness, now that is a pile of poo poo.
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I've tried a couple times to get into it, it's not the worst thing in the world and you can tell the people making it actually like Star Trek which puts it light years ahead of the recent live action poo poo, but the show still strikes me as the unfunny official version of the Orville for the kind of fans that are really into posting their favorite hypothetical DS9 couples on tumblr or something
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Goblin Craft posted:I mean, is it really punishment if it's voluntary? you have to watch every episode of star trek. it's the law
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nine-gear crow posted:I mean, you kinda got to on some level because they jumped the rail and peed into the adult pool in the process of making babby’s first soft plastic Fun Trek instead of just leaving well enough alone. And we’ve all got to deal with that here in gross miserable Real Trek. The last Star Trek thing I watched was Beyond so I don't have to deal with anything.
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Tighclops posted:I've tried a couple times to get into it, it's not the worst thing in the world and you can tell the people making it actually like Star Trek which puts it light years ahead of the recent live action poo poo, but the show still strikes me as the unfunny official version of the Orville for the kind of fans that are really into posting their favorite hypothetical DS9 couples on tumblr or something i enjoyed it but it was rarely truly funny and mostly going through the motions. its also just a million times better than anything released in the last decade or whatever
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FlamingLiberal posted:RIP General Chang To be, or not to be! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKkJWlxU99Y
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Number_6 posted:To be, or not to be! Absolute King
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Laterite posted:Absolute King Plummer was enough of a badass that he successfully demanded to not have to wear the omelet forehead prosthetic as a condition of taking the role (they didn't have the money to pay him his usual rate, but he wanted to work with Shatner, so he took a pay cut in exchange for not having to show up at 4 a.m. and spend several hours in a makeup chair).
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Timby posted:but he wanted to work with Shatner Funny, I've heard quite a few people who worked with him wished they hadn't had to
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They were longtime friends who both were members of the Royal Canadian Shakespeare Company or whatever it's called up there I guess Shatner's propensity for overacting isn't that surprising when your realize he was originally a theater actor
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Feb 6, 2021 03:04
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Gaddamn why is TNG on Netflix such dogshit quality. I  the 1080ps and it's like a new show completely.Same for DS9, I'll get back on that now that I know how good these HD versions look.
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Feb 6, 2021 03:15
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Did they pull the HD Remaster of TNG off of Netflix?
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FlamingLiberal posted:Did they pull the HD Remaster of TNG off of Netflix? Dunno about Netflix, but Hulu is all potato broadcast copies now.
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Feb 6, 2021 03:29
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This is why I'll never rely on streaming. Squirrel all that media on a big ol external HD.
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I just took a look at Encounter at Farpoint on both Netflix and Hulu and they are still very much HD and comparable to my Blu-Rays.
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Baronjutter posted:This is why I'll never rely on streaming. Squirrel all that media on a big ol external HD. I've never made an account for any streaming service, but since I had never seen any Star Trek at all I used girlfriend's Netflix to power through the seasons on TNG once I watched a few and got into it. I refuse to pay for any sort of streaming service. How the gently caress did we start with iTunes service and end up here, with the younger generation barely even knowing how to use torrents and the birth of 50 divisions of new streaming poo poo. edit; Not sure then, I watched TNG during quarantine I think last spring and my memory of it is really lovely quality compared to the blu-ray version I just put on. knox fucked around with this message at 03:55 on Feb 6, 2021 |
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A couple episodes of TNG on CBS All Access were like, VHS-quality. It was weird. DS9 on there also had some weird glitches on the top for a lot of episodes. Like they were all recorded using the same bad VCR.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Dunno about Netflix, but Hulu is all potato broadcast copies now. I think the only services that had them were Netflix, Amazon, and CBS AA
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FlamingLiberal posted:They were longtime friends who both were members of the Royal Canadian Shakespeare Company or whatever it's called up there It's why him and Patrick Stewart get alone so great too. That documentary Shatner did a few years back, The Captains, has some kind of weird and ego-stroking poo poo in it, but aside from Avery Brooks trolling the poo poo out of Bill by having a psychotic episode mid-interview, the two best bits are the one-on-ones Shatner does with Stewart and Chris Pine. He said that Stewart helped him get over his anxiety over the fact that his obituary was going to read "Captain Kirk actor, dead at [...]", and the Pine segment is a great torch pass between the two Kirks because you can see how much Pine looks up to Shatner and how excited Shatner is to see what Pine does with the role.
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It's very interesting that most of the Captains started in theater between Shatner, Stewart, Brooks also Bakula started on Broadway apparently
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FlamingLiberal posted:I don't think Hulu ever had the HD versions I just checked Hulu, it's HD just like Netflix.
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skull mask mcgee posted:A couple episodes of TNG on CBS All Access were like, VHS-quality. It was weird. Those weird glitches are likely the bottom few pixels of the running time code that’s used for editing and broadcast. Typically that would have been cut off on a normal SD TV, but the raw digital transfers from the master tapes likely still had those artifacts left over.
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Now if we want to talk about lovely image quality, I'm watching my ST:VI blu-ray right now, possibility for the first time since getting my OLED 4.5 years ago, and goddamn this is a lovely transfer. Compression artifacts abound and it's oddly over sharpened.
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HD DAD posted:Those weird glitches are likely the bottom few pixels of the running time code that’s used for editing and broadcast. Typically that would have been cut off on a normal SD TV, but the raw digital transfers from the master tapes likely still had those artifacts left over. Yeah that’s probably what it was. Was way too consistent to be an actual glitch. Still lol @ the complete lack of poo poo they give for that service.
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HD DAD posted:Those weird glitches are likely the bottom few pixels of the running time code that’s used for editing and broadcast. Typically that would have been cut off on a normal SD TV, but the raw digital transfers from the master tapes likely still had those artifacts left over. On netflix in Canada a lot of TNG episodes have a blinking white bit at the very top left hand corner which I assume is something like that, would that mean that it isn't the HD version or did they leave those in?
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bull3964 posted:Now if we want to talk about lovely image quality, I'm watching my ST:VI blu-ray right now, possibility for the first time since getting my OLED 4.5 years ago, and goddamn this is a lovely transfer. The Wrath of Khan is the only original series movie to receive a non-lovely Blu-ray release. VI's is especially bad because of egregious digital noise reduction, so severe to the point that you can see the seams of Shatner's toupee application on his forehead. At least the Blu-ray doesn't have the godawful flashbacks to the co-conspirators during Valeris' interrogation on the bridge. I remember buying the two-disc DVD when I lived in Baltimore, and I was sitting on the couch, jaw agape, when I saw that poo poo. And I thought the Colonel West Scooby Doo ending was silly...
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It's crazy that we live in a world where I have a 4k disc release of "They Live" in my library but none of the TOS or Next Generation moves have been given the treatment. I'm still extremely pissed that there's a HDR graded TWoK 4k transfer sitting for years on a hard drive out there and I can't buy it on disc.
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bull3964 posted:I just checked Hulu, it's HD just like Netflix. Only seasons 1 & 2. 3-7 are all SD, and a few even have blink-and-miss-it station identification cards between act breaks.
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Dumb but genuine question, how do you still watch things on discs? I cannot remember the last time I even saw an optical drive or a disc. When I was buying parts for my new desktop, there wasn't a single case that even had a slot where you could install a drive. Do you use an external? Are DVD players still a thing? I got a box copy of Fallout: New Vegas in 2010 and that's probably the last time I've touched physical media. Am I the weird one?
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I'll always buy movies and tv on physical because you can't trust the rights-holders to keep things available on streaming. I bought Dawn of the Dead on DVD when I was in college and it hasn't been in print since, not counting the $100 import from the UK released last year.
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:I'll always buy movies and tv on physical because you can't trust the rights-holders to keep things available on streaming. I bought Dawn of the Dead on DVD when I was in college and it hasn't been in print since, not counting the $100 import from the UK released last year. Hell, same. Been buying DVD’s for 20 years and I don’t have to worry about them disappearing from existence for years at a time (or possibly forever). I bought the DVD release of Freaked the day it came out.
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I don't buy movies very often these days, but when I do its on Blu-Ray or UHD. For whatever reason I refuse to buy movies from a streaming service when I'm perfectly fine buying games digitally. EDIT: ^^^^Also that.
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Yeah I don't do streaming either, too unreliable.
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Grand Fromage posted:Dumb but genuine question, how do you still watch things on discs? PS3, for me. Also my desktop computer is nine years old and my laptop is like 14 years old, so both have DVD-R drives in them, too.
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Grand Fromage posted:Am I the weird one? Yes I constantly buy stuff, especially blu-rays, because I’m tired of relying on over a dozen different streaming services just to watch the things I enjoy. And it’s only going to get worse as more studios and networks want their own slice of the pie and make their poo poo exclusive to their homegrown services. And that’s before you even factor in the terrible playback quality issues present on a lot of streaming sites. There’s also a whole lot of stuff that never hits streaming, so physical discs (or ) are the only way to watch them.
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