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Somebody stop me but I'm actually seriously considering buying a HD-DVD player for the sole purpose of watching the new Star Trek HD-DVD transfers. I grew up on classic Star Trek reruns in the '70's. I am a big science fiction buff and in my opinion those old episodes are the flat out best examples of science fiction to be found anywhere. It goes to show that science fiction can be used as a story telling tool without a big budget and digital effects.
The writing was fantastic, the plots great, the casting of course extraordinary. Will there ever be a science fiction dynamic as good as Kirk, Spock, and McCoy? I doubt it. Leonard Nimoy created the idea of an alien that actually is deeper than "I will destroy you." Jeez the sets were great. The ideas amazing. The lighting. And they did it all on less than 200k per episode. I am so happy that they were shot on 35mm film so we can see them restored and transferred to a high definition format.
Anyway I was looking around on Amazon last night and they have some short videos on the creation of the HD discs. It looks like they have done a fantastic job on the transfers.
I am a little worried about the fact that they have replaced a lot of outside the ship spaceship shots with digital work. I'm sure they look great but I just can't shake the feeling the episodes are going to lose more than they'll gain. I hope they have the option to watch either the old verions or the new on the discs. They also re-recorded the orginal score. Again I don't know if that was necessary. I think they should have just found the original master tapes and remixed and remastered them.
So what do you think? Is anyone else tempted to buy a HD-DVD player because of these classic Trek transfers?
The writing was fantastic, the plots great, the casting of course extraordinary. Will there ever be a science fiction dynamic as good as Kirk, Spock, and McCoy? I doubt it. Leonard Nimoy created the idea of an alien that actually is deeper than "I will destroy you." Jeez the sets were great. The ideas amazing. The lighting. And they did it all on less than 200k per episode. I am so happy that they were shot on 35mm film so we can see them restored and transferred to a high definition format.
Anyway I was looking around on Amazon last night and they have some short videos on the creation of the HD discs. It looks like they have done a fantastic job on the transfers.
I am a little worried about the fact that they have replaced a lot of outside the ship spaceship shots with digital work. I'm sure they look great but I just can't shake the feeling the episodes are going to lose more than they'll gain. I hope they have the option to watch either the old verions or the new on the discs. They also re-recorded the orginal score. Again I don't know if that was necessary. I think they should have just found the original master tapes and remixed and remastered them.
So what do you think? Is anyone else tempted to buy a HD-DVD player because of these classic Trek transfers?
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