Star Trek: TNG in HD “impossible,” will happen anyway
Legions of Trekkies would love to see Star Trek: The Next Generation in HD, including us. We’ve got good news and bad news for those fans. The bad is that Star Trek: TNG in HD is impossible. The good news is that it’s going to happen anyway.
Here’s the problem. The show was shot at a resolution that’s fine for HD. The actors, the physical sets and so on are good to go. The effects and post-production work, however, was done in standard definition. High def effects shots simply don’t exist. The only way to create a true HD episode of TNG would be to re-do every single special effect by hand.
And that’s exactly what’s being done.
LeVar Burton recently visited CBS to observe progress on the project, and reported that he was “#mindblown” via Twitter. The first release will be a four-episode sampler disc, which will include: Encounter at Farpoint” (1 & 2), “Sins of the Father” and “Inner Light.” Release is expected “before the end of this year,” so now you know what to put on your holiday shopping list.
So amazing and awesome it’s hard to describe. I cannot WAIT to see what these look like. So so happy.
Surely we must mention this this week.
[...] Star Trek: The Next Generation kommt in HD. Allerdings erstmal wohl nur vier Folgen… Grund dafür sind die Aufwändigen Nachbearbeitungen: da das Original-Material nicht in ausreichender Qualität vorhanden war werden die Special Effects jetzt Stück für Stück neu gemacht. Read more from Weblinksammlung [...]
I just hope they don’t use the CG Enterprise D from the finale of Enterprise. That rendering looked terrible.