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Re:The contagious visual blandness of Netflix by dotancohen on Sunday January 22, 2023 @10:39AM (#34478380)
Star Trek The Next Generation was famously shot on film. The HD scans are so good that the props can be seen to be fake in many places. Later franchise shows that were shot in digital simply cannot be released in HD as there is no HD source material.
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Re:The contagious visual blandness of Netflix by FredPret on Sunday January 22, 2023 @10:43AM (#34478417)
So film is better than the digital from that time, but not necessarily better than today's digital
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Re:The contagious visual blandness of Netflix by royjacobs on Sunday January 22, 2023 @10:43AM (#34478421)
This is completely incorrect. Later shows like Voyager and DS9 were also shot on film.

However, all post-production happened in standard definition, so all special effects, editing and colour correction would have to be redone, which is incredibly expensive.

They did that with TNG, but since those blurays didn't sell enough, they didn't bother doing the same for DS9/VOY.

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Re:The contagious visual blandness of Netflix by dotancohen on Sunday January 22, 2023 @11:43AM (#34479166)
Thank you, I did not realize that the difference was in post. There's no better way to get correct information on the internet, than to post an incorrect statement on the internet!
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Re:The contagious visual blandness of Netflix by royjacobs on Sunday January 22, 2023 @11:52AM (#34479309)
No worries! There's a good chance that anything I post that sounds remotely authoritative turns out to be super inaccurate as well :)
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Re:The contagious visual blandness of Netflix by dragonwriter on Sunday January 22, 2023 @10:50AM (#34478525)
> Later franchise shows that were shot in digital simply cannot be released in HD as there is no HD source material.

This is a persistent myth, but false. DS9 and Voyager were shot on film, like TNG and TOS. TOS was also edited on film, TNG and later were scanned and edited on videotape. This makes it much more work to remaster TNG and later shows for HD, which was done for TNG but not later shows because the TNG sales plus the perception that the other shows wwre less popular and would sell less made it not worthwhile from a business perspective.

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