Here's a remastered / remade CG clip from "The Sacrifice of Angels" that was made for the DS9 documentary "What We Left Behind". The doc has several really nice examples of what going back to the 35mm would unlock for the coverage of the actors / sets.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-BJ...

There's been some (unofficial) exploration at using AI upscaling techniques for either the entire series or just the VFX shots, but nothing official as of yet.

Sadly at the moment, the best is going to be a SD->HD upscale, since Paramount doesn't want to redo the VFX. TNG's remaster was expensive and didn't make the money they wanted, hence the studio's hesitation. The DS9 doc has some HD scans of several 35mm scene with redone CG and it looks great!

DS9 and Voyager were never released in blu-ray / HD. The shows' rendered their CG effects at SD since they were mastered to SD tape. TNG's effects were primarily shot on 35mm, so for the HD restoration they went back and redid the composites. For DS9/VOY/ENT, they'd have to re-render the CG effects.

To my eyes, it looked like a difference in compression / bitrate, but it's been frustratingly inconsistent with those two on streaming. It surely can't be different masters, since DS9 and Voyager haven't had any restoration work since DVD (and I'd wager the streaming files stem from the DVD master)

For a bit, the video quality was different for DS9 / Voyager depending on where you watched them, with Amazon having the best image (when it was on Prime proper, not the P+ channel.) At some point it became a jumbled mess. Frasier was similar until the HD release.

Physical media is the best!

One of the best investment I've made in the last few years was for a NAS and a blu-ray drive that let me back-up my movies. I've got them all in identical quality to the disc, but with the convenience of streaming via Jellyfin.

The problem is now I buy even more films.

It's artwork from the poster for "Hausu" / "House", a 1977 Japanese horror comedy.

The Criterion release describes the film as "an episode of 'Scooby-Doo' as directed by Mario Bava," which is incredibly accurate.

It's a movie I enjoy and I found the art striking, so it's been my av for many years!

Whenever we'd break a story on Discovery and the canon alarms would go off in my head, I'd approach a possible contradiction from the angle of "if this is indeed the case, what does that mean for the world we know?"

It's more fun to build upon the unexpected rather than repeat the well-known.

I once got to witness a scoring session for them (when Alf Clausen was composing) and it was incredible. I can’t imagine the magic of seeing a read through.

Imagine how quickly this problem would solve itself if they removed Jeffries and Schumer from the leadership.

I fucking loathe all of this, but I cannot deny being slightly amused by Shapiro's desperation to win an award from an industry that he constantly rails on as being irrelevant. It's so incredibly pathetic.

Hell yeah, congrats!

That era could be shockingly open and honest about their missteps. The Generations commentary and Piller's book detailing the development of Insurrection both pull no punches.

It certainly has its fans, but I think it gets somewhat overlooked because it had almost 25 years between home releases (from VHS in 1999 to UHD last year) and wasn't streaming until recently.

Which is a shame, because it's a fun flick!

There was a post on Reddit the other day lamenting how we're not getting a bunch of classic action films because Cameron is "wasting" his time on Avatar, as if he's not a powerful director with agency.

And with a new one coming out, all the old -- and tired -- criticism is back!

Honestly? I think it's because there's a perception amongst film bros that "Titanic" was the turning point for James Cameron away from gun-centric action. There's a frustration that an acclaimed action director pivoted to "chick flicks and Fern Gully in space," I say tongue-firmly-in-cheek.

Hell yeah! Congrats to you and the rest of the team! 🖖

I swear, I've seen a noticeable uptick in bad "Titanic" takes over the last year, and most of them require being either willfully ignorant about the film's contents or the medium itself.

See: anyone arguing that Rose didn't love her husband because she shared Jack's story.