TOS Season 2 HD remaster cancelled

radiospan

Disappointed about this, I really enjoyed Season One. It was meant to be coming out at the end of March.

An inside source at Technicolor has informed us that a few weeks ago Toshiba cancelled the work they were doing on Star Trek Season 2. Toshiba had been the one paying for the re-mastering/encoding of Star Trek: TOS, which was part of their exclusive deal with Paramount. Also part of the exclusive deal is that Paramount must use AVC in the encoding of the Star Trek Series, more specifically they must use Toshiba's AVC encoder

http://trekweb.com/articles/2008/02/18/Star-Trek-Season-2-HDDVD-Box-Set-Cancelled-.shtml
http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Star-Trek-Season-2-HD-DVD-Cancelled/9018

TVDX

A shame really though I have no doubt it will be on Blu ray disc before the year is out.

Ro: maaan!

How are these remastered versions btw? Haven't seen any yet. Do they actually add anything to the episodes or is it just hd and video quality?

Goodshape

Great picture quality and redone effects. For example, all exterior / space shots are now done in modern CGI.

But it's very faithfully done in most cases. Unlike the Star Wars 'Special Editions', there's very little extra added... it just all looks a bit better.

I quite like them.

norrie rugger

Ro: maaan! wrote: »

How are these remastered versions btw? Haven't seen any yet. Do they actually add anything to the episodes or is it just hd and video quality?

Check out the Star Trek site for before and afters

http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/news/TOS/article/28095.html

User45701

**** and i have already orderded season 1 HD guess seasn 2 hd is something ill have to get in bluray then.

monkeyfudge

My Season 1 boxset arrived today... Got it for just 40 euro thanks to the demise of HD-DVD.

Just watched two episodes so far, but I'm really loving it... The colours look fantastic and the sound is brilliant as well.

The season 2 remastered HD set is cancelled, but the ordinary, standard defination set is still set for release.

Star Trek (Remastered) - Season 2 (DVD) from Amazon.co.uk out 5th August 2008!

This set contains all the remastered episodes, but just in ordinary defination

User45701

kool ill buy it, but i still would love to see it in HD, it had been so many years watching season 1 in HD was amazing

Well, a blu-ray release is predicted, but still not a single Trek release annouced yet.

Paramount have made their announcement of the inital BR titles, sadly no Trek.

radiospan

Season 2 seems to available via Xbox in HD?

http://www.xbox.com/en-US/marketplace/media/a72b20ca-e0c9-4915-a4d4-9d0be28270bc/

I'm not sure how accurate the original article is, because wasn't the re-mastered The Doomsday Machine shown in a Belfast cinema last year? And that's Season 2. It's been aired re-mastered in the US too.

Goodshape

plazzTT wrote: »

Season 2 seems to available via Xbox in HD?

I think (not entirely sure) that it's the HD-DVD release of the remastered episodes that has been cancelled. Along with the entire HD-DVD format itself.

But as far as I know season two episodes (and maybe season 3?) did receive the remaster treatment and are, or will be, available on DVD...... and, seemingly, in HD on Xbox.

User45701

i have to buy a x-box to legally watch season 2 in HD DVD?