The Star Treks

[Alkali Ike]

 

[hbarcat]

With TNG remasters you can see bolts and wobbling consoles and Data’s makeup rubbed off on things. Doesn’t it looks worse by trying to look better?

There was kind of a crisis among TV news broadcasters when they went to HD. All of a sudden, every blemish and wrinkle on their faces was clearly visible and makeup wasn't enough to conceal it. A lot of older journalists retired because of it.

 

[Deleted member 165050]

Looks like they are still on Netflix in Canada...

They're supposed to be here in the UK but I'm on a mobile broadband connection so maybe it thinks I'm somewhere else!

 

[Gorn]

There was kind of a crisis among TV news broadcasters when they went to HD. All of a sudden, every blemish and wrinkle on their faces was clearly visible and makeup wasn't enough to conceal it. A lot of older journalists retired because of it.

It’s too much on some tvs. It looks realer than reality. My tv is over a decade old at this point but fine for my needs. Any time I’m watching someone else’s fancy tv it’s really jarring.

 

[hbarcat]

III is such a beautiful story, my favorite of the 6.

I didn't like ST3 when I first saw it in theaters and I didn't like it any better the few times I rewatched it on DVD. I just can't get over the total implausibility of the premise of the movie.

Vulcans can transfer the entire informational content of their being (soul?) to another person in a spontaneous 2 second mind meld?

The genesis device can remake a barren world with not just water and atmosphere, but also complex life forms like plants and animals and globally integrated ecosystems in a matter of weeks?

Spock's radiation poisoned and thoroughly dead and decaying body gets resurrected into a new spock "clone" (by being deposited on the genesis planet) all ready and prepared to be reunited with the former Spock's knowledge (and soul?) by transferring it from the earlier mind meld host?

It's really too bad, because everything else about the movie is outstanding. The themes of friendship and sacrifice are quite poignant.

 

[Deleted member 165050]

They're supposed to be here in the UK but I'm on a mobile broadband connection so maybe it thinks I'm somewhere else!

Star Trek is back on my Netflix! Turns out my router rebooted and was assigned an IP address that was somehow "associated with" a VPN and therefore hid the country from Netflix, which limited my access to global content only. A quick reboot and I have all 6 series back And Netflix online chat were very helpful.

 

[murphy]

There was kind of a crisis among TV news broadcasters when they went to HD. All of a sudden, every blemish and wrinkle on their faces was clearly visible and makeup wasn't enough to conceal it. A lot of older journalists retired because of it.

It’s too much on some tvs. It looks realer than reality. My tv is over a decade old at this point but fine for my needs. Any time I’m watching someone else’s fancy tv it’s really jarring.

I cannot stand it...That is why I keep my TVs on MOVIE picture mode ....Ahhh....That's better

 

[Gorn]

I cannot stand it...That is why I keep my TVs on MOVIE picture mode ....Ahhh....That's better

I think frame rate has something to do with it to, as far as the tv goes. Not remastered Star Trek. I have friends with tvs that they’re used to, but to my eyes it’s bizarre. Like I said before, it looks realer than real and it’s not pleasant to watch.

 

[mapleglo]

I guess my eyes are about as bad as my ears, along with the rest of my body. I can't see too much of a difference between regular TV and the High Def movies we watch.

 

[Alkali Ike]

There was kind of a crisis among TV news broadcasters when they went to HD. All of a sudden, every blemish and wrinkle on their faces was clearly visible and makeup wasn't enough to conceal it. A lot of older journalists retired because of it.

It’s common now for news broadcasts to use a slight blurring filter on closeups of the news anchors and readers.

 

[Alkali Ike]

I think frame rate has something to do with it to, as far as the tv goes. Not remastered Star Trek. I have friends with tvs that they’re used to, but to my eyes it’s bizarre. Like I said before, it looks realer than real and it’s not pleasant to watch.

Never EVER use the motion smoothing higher frame rates for film-based material on newer TVs. All they do is make everything look FAKE FAKE FAKE. Disable all motion smoothing on the TV if you want to see the filmed content as originally intended.

Tom Cruise finally takes a stand… on your parents’ terrible TV settings

Anyone who owns a high-definition TV has likely experienced the nagging sensation of something being not quite right when watching films. It's not all in your head. The effect is called video interpolation, or motion smoothing, and last night, Tom Cruise and writer/director Chris McQuarrie dropped a surprise PSA on Twitter (apparently filmed on the set of Top Gun: Maverick) [corrected] to warn us about this evil.

Okay, so motion smoothing isn't actually evil. It's more of a double-edged sword. The feature is great for watching sports, but it makes movies look like "they were shot on high-speed video rather than film," says Cruise. In other words, your Hollywood blockbuster movie will look like a 1970s BBC TV series. That's why it's commonly called "the soap opera effect."

Why does this happen? Essentially, the feature uses image processing algorithms to insert (interpolate) "extra" frames between the actual frames. The TV will process one frame, then another, and then the algorithms will try to guess what a new frame inserted between those two frames should look like. This increases the frame rate to 120fps, to match the HDTV's 120Hz refresh rate. It will smooth out the image and make fast-paced events easier to follow, like basketball games or NASCAR races—or even the nightly news, which isn't meant to look cinematic. But it won't have that "film" feeling anymore: it feels "unnatural," or rather, a bit too real, ruining the illusion.

That's because film is typically shot at 24fps to create motion blur, and most filmmakers exploit that property when designing the cinematography for their films. A notable exception is Director Peter Jackson's controversial decision to film his Hobbit trilogy at 48fps, thereby making it look like the films were shot with the motion smoothing setting turned on.

 

[zontar]

I didn't like ST3 when I first saw it in theaters and I didn't like it any better the few times I rewatched it on DVD. I just can't get over the total implausibility of the premise of the movie.

Vulcans can transfer the entire informational content of their being (soul?) to another person in a spontaneous 2 second mind meld?

The genesis device can remake a barren world with not just water and atmosphere, but also complex life forms like plants and animals and globally integrated ecosystems in a matter of weeks?

Spock's radiation poisoned and thoroughly dead and decaying body gets resurrected into a new spock "clone" (by being deposited on the genesis planet) all ready and prepared to be reunited with the former Spock's knowledge (and soul?) by transferring it from the earlier mind meld host?

It's really too bad, because everything else about the movie is outstanding. The themes of friendship and sacrifice are quite poignant.

III was the funniest Star Trek movie until IV

 

[Alkali Ike]

III was the funniest Star Trek movie until IV

What was funny to you about III?

 

[zontar]

What was funny to you about III?

Fruitier than a nut cake
the ear jokes
lots of little dialogue touches like that

 

[Alkali Ike]

Fruitier than a nut cake
the ear jokes
lots of little dialogue touches like that

OK well I’m relieved that you didn’t find the entire concept of this great movie a big joke.

Dr. McCoy: “I choose the danger… Helluva time to ask.”

Uhura: “This isn’t reality. This is fantasy!”

 

[zontar]

OK well I’m relieved that you didn’t find the entire concept of this great movie a big joke.

Dr. McCoy: “I choose the danger… Helluva time to ask.”

Uhura: “This isn’t reality. This is fantasy!”

Like when a movie or TV show can be serious, but still inject humour into it.
Life is like that.
Star Trek has done that very well at times (not always, but quite often--especially in the original series & movies)

 

[murphy]

I think frame rate has something to do with it to, as far as the tv goes. Not remastered Star Trek. I have friends with tvs that they’re used to, but to my eyes it’s bizarre. Like I said before, it looks realer than real and it’s not pleasant to watch.

Makes everything look stagey ..like being at an improv

 

[Gorn]

This made me cackle like a psychopath at my desk at work.

 

[murphy]

 

[Gorn]