I don't know why that's funny to me, but it is. lol
Also Canada fucked again by Bell.
Honestly I'm pretty ok with it continuing on Crave because my parents get Crave for free with their cable subscription and I refuse to support Amazon more than necessary so for me it's *thumbs up*
Cue shitty YouTube hot takes - NETFLIX DISAPPOINTED BY DISCOVERY. WON'T FUND PICARD.
Honestly I would be really interested in finding out why Netflix passed on Picard
I wonder if they are going to move Disco to Amazon for next season
Now need subscribe to two streaming services to watch that and DSC.
They must have a lot of footage they didn't use. It does make me wish someone would pay to do the HD though. Dump it on All Access or something.I just got back from the documentary too. Very celebratory, not much inside baseball aside from the little bit about Terry Farrell talking her contract dispute - no details, just how she felt. The bit about Far Beyond the Stars was good, and they teased some stuff about Trials and Tribble-ations in the Blu-ray extras.
That's part of it because they moved away from practical to CG effects at the time. For the documentary they basically tried redoing this scene in HD:I remember reading something about how, in addition to being expensive, a full DS9 and VOY HD remaster would be difficult because the original effects files either were lost or in an unusable format (or something to that effect). Is that true, or am I remembering wrong?
Haha, yeah me neither. I think it's because it was a few scenes out of context and I was more invested in the actual documentary than the footage.To be honest I didn't even notice that the remastered footage was remastered (aside from the remastered cg space battle, which looked nice but not mind blowing). It wasn't like the first time I saw TNG on blu ray.
I remember reading something about how, in addition to being expensive, a full DS9 and VOY HD remaster would be difficult because the original effects files either were lost or in an unusable format (or something to that effect). Is that true, or am I remembering wrong?
Imagine that was a streaming exclusive for CBSTo break it down.
The shows were filmed on 35mm film, which is great for transferring to HD resolution.
However, for TV they were transferred down to NTSC SD resolution. It is there at that resolution visual effects were created and applied.
No HD version of the CGI or other effects exist.
So they have two choices.
1. Try and upscale the SD TV shows (terrible idea).
2. Do what they did for TNG, go back to 35mm negatives, transfer to HD resolution and edit them to match the original broadcasts perfectly (huge task).
They would also have to perfectly recreate every visual effect using CGI and edit them into the newly transferred edits from above (another huge and also costly task). It would look amazing though.
Unfortunately with the drop in physical sales due to streaming services it isn't seen as a worthwhile cost, and selling to streaming services will not cover it either.
To break it down.
The shows were filmed on 35mm film, which is great for transferring to HD resolution.
However, for TV they were transferred down to NTSC SD resolution. It is there at that resolution visual effects were created and applied.
No HD version of the CGI or other effects exist.
So they have two choices.
1. Try and upscale the SD TV shows (terrible idea).
2. Do what they did for TNG, go back to 35mm negatives, transfer to HD resolution and edit them to match the original broadcasts perfectly (huge task).
They would also have to perfectly recreate every visual effect using CGI and edit them into the newly transferred edits from above (another huge and also costly task). It would look amazing though.
Unfortunately with the drop in physical sales due to streaming services it isn't seen as a worthwhile cost, and selling to streaming services will not cover it either.
Thank you, that was quite informative!To break it down.
The shows were filmed on 35mm film, which is great for transferring to HD resolution.
However, for TV they were transferred down to NTSC SD resolution. It is there at that resolution visual effects were created and applied.
No HD version of the CGI or other effects exist.
So they have two choices.
1. Try and upscale the SD TV shows (terrible idea).
2. Do what they did for TNG, go back to 35mm negatives, transfer to HD resolution and edit them to match the original broadcasts perfectly (huge task).
They would also have to perfectly recreate every visual effect using CGI and edit them into the newly transferred edits from above (another huge and also costly task). It would look amazing though.
Unfortunately with the drop in physical sales due to streaming services it isn't seen as a worthwhile cost, and selling to streaming services will not cover it either.
Honestly I'm pretty ok with it continuing on Crave because my parents get Crave for free with their cable subscription and I refuse to support Amazon more than necessary so for me it's *thumbs up*
Honestly I would be really interested in finding out why Netflix passed on Picard (if they did, you would think CBS would go to their existing partner first but I don't know for sure). Are they unhappy with the numbers Discovery is getting? Is CBS asking for too much money? Do they just think they don't need 2 Star Trek shows?
Unfortunately we'll probably never know.
I wonder if they are going to move Disco to Amazon for next season
Maybe. They kinda look similar to what was in the Countdown comic as well I think.
Maybe. They kinda look similar to what was in the Countdown comic as well I think.
Maybe. They kinda look similar to what was in the Countdown comic as well I think.
I'm thinking about what other Trek novelverse or Memory Beta things will get canonized in Picard. What has David Mack written?
Could be actually. Kurtzman is involved with this one, right? So he might move to canonise his stuff
Well that's the least creative name that they could have come up with for the show.
Hopefully it's good.
The show about Deep Space Nine is called Deep Space Nine.
The show about Voyager is called Voyager.
The show about Enterprise is called Enterprise.
The show about Discovery is called Discovery.
The show about Picard is called Picard.
Only TOS and TNG break the pattern. And they were both about the Starfleet flag sheet Enterprise. None of the others were. (Enterprise was pre-Starfleet, right? Aren't they an Earth ship or something?)
Hmmm... That might be a bit of accidental headcanon on my part. I suppose you cannot have your flag ship on a 5 year mission.I don't think it was ever called that. I feel like I only ever heard the D rerefenced as the flagship.