Originally Posted by JimRockford:
“Actually, they are experimenting with this very thing at the moment. Because the Next Generation only exists on tapes. It was made in an era where they transfered the film to tape and post produced the show digitally, before archiving it off onto Betacam. There are no film masters of the completed series, unlike the original Star Trek. The days will come eventually when they release upscaled SD stuff on Blu-ray or HD-DVD, (stuff that doesn't exist on film) that has been professionally upscaled and people will be surprised at the quality.
I don't think anybody is arguing that upscaled SD is a 1:1 match for true HD, it's going to lack some fine detail. But anybody that dismisses what *can* be achieved through professional upscaling (and you can achieve at least halfway house with good material) is frankly misinformed. Also, there's a lot more to picture quality than just resolution.
Oh and SKY HD is not a good way to judge things.
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“Actually, they are experimenting with this very thing at the moment. Because the Next Generation only exists on tapes. It was made in an era where they transfered the film to tape and post produced the show digitally, before archiving it off onto Betacam. There are no film masters of the completed series, unlike the original Star Trek. The days will come eventually when they release upscaled SD stuff on Blu-ray or HD-DVD, (stuff that doesn't exist on film) that has been professionally upscaled and people will be surprised at the quality.
I don't think anybody is arguing that upscaled SD is a 1:1 match for true HD, it's going to lack some fine detail. But anybody that dismisses what *can* be achieved through professional upscaling (and you can achieve at least halfway house with good material) is frankly misinformed. Also, there's a lot more to picture quality than just resolution.
Oh and SKY HD is not a good way to judge things.
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I never said it was.
I know ST:TNG doesn't exist in completed form on film. I had hoped the original footage has been preserved somewhere. If the footage does exist, in principle, all the live action footage could be scanned at high resolution. The sfx and all the other remaining post-production work could then be re-done with modern digital techniques.




