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    #962
    Dude111
    Registered Users Posts: 1,771 ✭✭✭Dude111


    I recently ordered a complete set on VHS of the original series (All 3 seasons)

    The ORIGINAL series is the best!!


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    #963
    mad muffin
    Registered Users Posts: 8,034 ✭✭✭mad muffin


    Dude111 wrote: »
    I recently ordered a complete set on VHS of the original series (All 3 seasons)

    The ORIGINAL series is the best!!

    Why not the remastered Blu ray?:pac:


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    #964
    Dude111
    Registered Users Posts: 1,771 ✭✭✭Dude111


    Disgusting,i dont want any remastered pieces of crap!!

    I prefer THE ORIGINAL of things as they are the nicest icon7.gif (I am a PURIST)


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    #965
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    Dude111 wrote: »
    Disgusting,i dont want any remastered pieces of crap!!

    I prefer THE ORIGINAL of things as they are the nicest icon7.gif (I am a PURIST)

    Hope you have plenty of VHS head cleaner, your VHS player has auto-tracking, don't forget to rewind all your tapes, & enjoy muffled audio? :D


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    #966
    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,556 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    boards must be pretty damn slow on your x386


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    #967
    mad muffin
    Registered Users Posts: 8,034 ✭✭✭mad muffin


    Dude111 wrote: »
    Disgusting,i dont want any remastered pieces of crap!!

    I prefer THE ORIGINAL of things as they are the nicest icon7.gif (I am a PURIST)

    But these have been lovingly restored.


    It needs to be seen to be believed how good the OG series looks now. :eek:


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    #968
    Dude111
    Registered Users Posts: 1,771 ✭✭✭Dude111


    I dont care to see anything but the ORIGINAL RECORDING!!!!!!

    Im sorry if that makes you upset..


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    #969
    nyarlothothep
    Registered Users Posts: 5,177 ✭✭✭nyarlothothep


    I find the CG in TOS to be like that, I want to enjoy the original 60s version, not the arrogant imposition of 00s CG, it's like the Neo Classicists presuming to rewrite Shakespeare's plays to make them better according to their 18th century views on literature. I doesn't bother me too much but you know, it just takes away from the authenticity. I like sh1tty effects. TOS is genius anyway, even when it's bad.


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    #970
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    I have to say I prefer the original TOS effects too, no matter how badly dated they are. The live action high definition though does look very very well


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    #971
    Beefy78
    Registered Users Posts: 8,163 ✭✭✭Beefy78


    Dude111 wrote: »
    I dont care to see anything but the ORIGINAL RECORDING!!!!!!

    Im sorry if that makes you upset..

    I'm confused. How is the VHS "the original recording"? It's surely just the oldest.


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    #972
    Al Capwned
    Registered Users Posts: 5,721 ✭✭✭Al Capwned


    Hi guys - I have a ball of the DVD's from the Star Trek Fact Files that were out about 8 years ago or so. I'll dig out the exact numbers if anyone is interested in them - quite a few of them not even opened - I'm guessing I have about 50 or so of them...

    Free to a good home - i'm near Carlow.


    Reminder pic!
    185FEB2010.jpg


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    #973
    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,556 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    i'm *in* carlow


    are they episodes on dvd?


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    #974
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    I find the CG in TOS to be like that, I want to enjoy the original 60s version
    EnterNow wrote: »
    I have to say I prefer the original TOS effects too, no matter how badly dated they are. The live action high definition though does look very very well

    The Bluray version has both the original and remastered effects via seamless branching. You just pick which version you want to watch.


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    #975
    Al Capwned
    Registered Users Posts: 5,721 ✭✭✭Al Capwned


    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »
    i'm *in* carlow


    are they episodes on dvd?

    Yeah all TNG iirc - I'll dig them out tomorrow, and get a list of them together! But definitely a couple of the movies in it too!


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    #976
    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,556 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    ill take them, or as many as you're willing to part with anyway


    will you be around carlow town during the week?


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    #977
    Al Capwned
    Registered Users Posts: 5,721 ✭✭✭Al Capwned


    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »
    ill take them, or as many as you're willing to part with anyway


    will you be around carlow town during the week?

    You're welcome to them all. - I have all the series 'stored elsewhere', shall we say! ;)

    Yeah i do be in and out of town fairly regularly. Live in Castledermot. Give you a shout there tomorrow afternoon with what's in it!


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    #978
    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,556 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    ah, i was just in castledermot for the last two days :) could have been handier

    grand so send me a pm the day before or a few hours before you think you'll be around, no rush anyway. thanks.


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    #979
    Dude111
    Registered Users Posts: 1,771 ✭✭✭Dude111


    nyarlothothep wrote:
    I want to enjoy the original 60s version, not the arrogant imposition of 00s CG
    Exactly buddy... Who the hell are they for changing it and making it look like WHAT THEY THINK it should look and sound like!

    My VHS set is analogue and looks/sounds exactly like they did when i watched them in the 80s and earlier..... I love them....They look/sound quite good!


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    #980
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    Dude111 wrote: »
    Exactly buddy... Who the hell are they for changing it and making it look like WHAT THEY THINK it should look and sound like!

    My VHS set is analogue and looks/sounds exactly like they did when i watched them in the 80s and earlier..... I love them....They look/sound quite good!

    You do realise that the Blu Ray releases due to their higher resolution, are closer to the original studio recording than anything else? The newer effects can also be switched off as mentioned above...


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    #981
    mad muffin
    Registered Users Posts: 8,034 ✭✭✭mad muffin


    EnterNow wrote: »
    You do realise that the Blu Ray releases due to their higher resolution, are closer to the original studio recording than anything else? The newer effects can also be switched off as mentioned above...

    There is no point. They will never know the visual and aural enjoyment.

    I have no doubt that Gene Roddenberry would have approved of the Blu rays.


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    #982
    Beefy78
    Registered Users Posts: 8,163 ✭✭✭Beefy78


    The HD polish of The Best of Both Worlds is getting a one-night-only cinema release...

    :eek:

    ....in America only....

    :(

    ....when I happen to be on holiday in Las Vegas

    :cool:

    http://www.fathomevents.com/#!star-trek-best-of-both-worlds


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    #983
    Beefy78
    Registered Users Posts: 8,163 ✭✭✭Beefy78


    mad muffin wrote: »
    There is no point. They will never know the visual and aural enjoyment.

    I have no doubt that Gene Roddenberry would have approved of the Blu rays.

    Of course he would have done. All the HD conversions have done is bring out the quality that they were originally shot in and which has previously been hidden because of the technical limitations of standard definition.


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    #984
    Dude111
    Registered Users Posts: 1,771 ✭✭✭Dude111


    They look fine to me in SD,always have icon7.gif


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    #985
    Indricotherium
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,575 ✭✭✭Indricotherium


    Dude111 wrote: »
    They look fine to me in SD,always have icon7.gif

    So settle for fine then.

    Don't claim that it is superior.


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    #986
    IvySlayer
    Registered Users Posts: 17,187 ✭✭✭✭IvySlayer


    Does anyone else hate Jake Sisko as much as I do? He was....ok.....during the first few seasons, but his whole writing career thingy I never got.


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    #987
    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,556 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    it's not just you


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    #988
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    Jake never bothered me. They needed to break away from the token kid who was more intelligent than the adults type thing. They broke away from everyone wanting to be in Starfleet too.


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    #989
    Kirby
    Registered Users Posts: 13,084 ✭✭✭✭Kirby


    They also, consciously in my opinion, gave most of the characters in DS9 jobs we could relate to. Writer (Jake), Bartender(Quark), policeman(Odo), teacher(O'briens wife).

    And tinker, tailor, soldier and spy.....although they were all Garak. :P


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    #990
    norrie rugger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,656 ✭✭✭norrie rugger


    Yeah, by assigning everyone non Starfleet jobs, they show that the Federation ideal is not ubiquitous even within the Federation boarders (and protectorates).
    There is money, crime, gambling etc. Earth and the core planets may be paradises but "out on the rim" the rules of society are a bit more relaxed.


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    #991
    IvySlayer
    Registered Users Posts: 17,187 ✭✭✭✭IvySlayer


    Wesley got there first though.

    Jakes writing thingy is just hard to believe...


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