Remastered Trek Due On HD DVD
An HD DVD collection of Star Trek: The Original Series, remastered with new visual effects and score, will be released on Nov. 20 in a set of 10 double-sided discs, it was announced at Comic-Con International in San Diego on July 26. The discs will feature the high-def version of the show on one side and the standard DVD version on the other.
Star Trek fans were treated to their first glimpse of the set at a panel at Comic-Con. Remastered from the original camera master negatives from the show, the set not only updates the classic series with new bonus materials, but the episodes also feature new visual effects, CGI and a re-recorded score, as in the currently airing syndicated version of the show.
Eugene "Rod" Roddenberry Jr., son of Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, appeared at the panel to reassure purist fans that he has provided his official stamp of approval on the new set.
"When I first heard about remastering Star Trek, I kind of felt like a lot of fans out there thinking, 'Don't touch it,'" Roddenberry said. "I didn't want the 'Star Wars [special edition] effect' to happen to it. But when I found out that Mike and Denise Okuda [Trek series scenic artists] and Dave Rossy [Trek marketing] were going to be involved and had some decision-making power, I felt much better. When I found out it wasn't about changing the scenes—it wasn't about adding content, but taking what was there and just enhancing it and ... putting in CG—I thought it was nice. But then I said, 'You have to keep the original DVDs available for the die-hards that don't want the remaster.' So I’m 100 percent behind it."
Bonus materials include a 3-D self-navigated shuttle tour of the NCC-1701, a "Starfleet Access" interface with onscreen icons that provide additional data, trivia and exclusive new video interviews from the cast and crew about the episodes, as well as never-before-seen footage from Trek extra Billy Blackburn's personal Super 8 movies shot on set. The set carries a suggested retail price of $217.99. —Tara DiLullo Bennett
Source: SCIFI wire
An HD DVD collection of Star Trek: The Original Series, remastered with new visual effects and score, will be released on Nov. 20 in a set of 10 double-sided discs, it was announced at Comic-Con International in San Diego on July 26. The discs will feature the high-def version of the show on one side and the standard DVD version on the other.
Star Trek fans were treated to their first glimpse of the set at a panel at Comic-Con. Remastered from the original camera master negatives from the show, the set not only updates the classic series with new bonus materials, but the episodes also feature new visual effects, CGI and a re-recorded score, as in the currently airing syndicated version of the show.
Eugene "Rod" Roddenberry Jr., son of Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, appeared at the panel to reassure purist fans that he has provided his official stamp of approval on the new set.
"When I first heard about remastering Star Trek, I kind of felt like a lot of fans out there thinking, 'Don't touch it,'" Roddenberry said. "I didn't want the 'Star Wars [special edition] effect' to happen to it. But when I found out that Mike and Denise Okuda [Trek series scenic artists] and Dave Rossy [Trek marketing] were going to be involved and had some decision-making power, I felt much better. When I found out it wasn't about changing the scenes—it wasn't about adding content, but taking what was there and just enhancing it and ... putting in CG—I thought it was nice. But then I said, 'You have to keep the original DVDs available for the die-hards that don't want the remaster.' So I’m 100 percent behind it."
Bonus materials include a 3-D self-navigated shuttle tour of the NCC-1701, a "Starfleet Access" interface with onscreen icons that provide additional data, trivia and exclusive new video interviews from the cast and crew about the episodes, as well as never-before-seen footage from Trek extra Billy Blackburn's personal Super 8 movies shot on set. The set carries a suggested retail price of $217.99. —Tara DiLullo Bennett
Source: SCIFI wire
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