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Wow I’m staying up late and trying to record ENTERPRISE (the Soong trilogy – well part of it). It’s 4:3!!! They have the widescreen bars but it isn’t properly stretched! They left it 4:3 and its really small on the monitor!
And it doesn’t seem to be in true 5.1. What gives???? I’m watching it on the digital station. The New Years special was in full 16×9. Boy thats weird. I gave up recording since I wasn’t going to get all 3 epsiodes and it isn’t in the format I want.
If I really want to see them I can check out the dvds from netflix.
What a bummer.
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Quote:They have the widescreen bars but it isn’t properly stretched! They left it 4:3 and its really small on the monitor!.
So it was window boxed? (ie: Black bars all around). When shows go into syndication, the distributor sometimes offers a couple of different options (formats) to the various stations. Furthermore many digital stations are only set-up to pass their respective networks in true HD. And then there is always the possibility someone just screwed up.
Yeah well it was syndicated that may have something to do with it. It was on late night on the abc channel. I didn’t have the hd card while it was broadcast on UPN. It SHOULD have been in full 16×9 during the prime time showing in the original run. I’m sure the dvd set is full 5.1 and 16×9.
Yeah it was super boxed.
They must have been simulcasting a standard definition letterboxed version of the program on their digital channel.
And I’m pretty sure you’re right about the DVDs being 16X9.
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Yoda, I’m watching the DVD version of Borderland from season 4 on my 50″ LCD HDTV right now. (It’s the first of 3 episodes with Brent Spiner playing Arik Soong.) The picture is almost HD quality, and the sound is incredible. Three cheers for the Enterprise DVDs! icon_cheers.gif icon_cheers.gif icon_cheers.gif
Quote:Yoda, I’m watching the DVD version of Borderland from season 4 on my 50″ LCD HDTV right now. (It’s the first of 3 episodes with Brent Spiner playing Arik Soong.) The picture is almost HD quality, and the sound is incredible. Three cheers for the Enterprise DVDs! icon_cheers.gif icon_cheers.gif icon_cheers.gifAgain, I’m sorry I mistook you for a teacher mr 50″ LCD. :tongue:
Quote:Yoda, I’m watching the DVD version of Borderland from season 4 on my 50″ LCD HDTV right now. (It’s the first of 3 episodes with Brent Spiner playing Arik Soong.) The picture is almost HD quality, and the sound is incredible. Three cheers for the Enterprise DVDs! icon_cheers.gif icon_cheers.gif icon_cheers.gifThat was a fantastic episode, Brent Spiner is an amazing actor, he really developed that entire family of characters very well, giving each a very distinct and unique personality
I enjoyed his work too. And, as you know, this arc explained why the Klingons looked human in TOS. Very clever writing.
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Quote:The picture is almost HD quality, and the sound is incredibleBy almost what do you mean? Its a standard dvd right? Does that mean it was originally recorded in hd and they downsampled it at a high bitrate?
I would imagine the sound to be perfect these days. 5.1 has been around for awhile.
Though I have no intention of touching an Enterprise dvd. DOWN WITH ENTERPRISE!!! BURN IN HELL!!!
Sorry had to get that out of my system
:haha: No problem!
The show was shot entirely in HDTV and the DVDs are high quality 16×9 NTSC transfers. It looks and sounds much better than a regular NTSC broadcast signal because it is noise free. The picture is very sharp, if I didn’t know better I’d think it was true HD.
Are you watching it on an upconvert dvd player or a standard progressive dvd player?? That might slightly alter your perception. Though this is from others experience as the only hdtv I have is my capture card on the computer – pretty darn good too but not a valid comparison for settop tubes/plasmas/lcd’s.
@yoda, I have a standard/progressive DVD player and I’m using the component video connections (no HDMI). The picture is a bit softer than HDTV broadcasts, but I don’t see any of the annoying digital artifacts I typically see in HDTV broadcasts (1080i or 720p). Since you mentioned something about renting Enterprise I thought I’d you’d like to hear about my enjoyable experience.
@Garibaldi, the last season of Enterprise was the best one, IMO. The producers really let the writers have a lot of freedom. I guess the producers figured they had nothing to lose.Out of curiosity, should one put the Enterprise DVDs first or last in their STAR TREK DVD collection? w00t.gif Oh my God! Now I won’t get any sleep until I figure out the answer to this conundrum. 😯
Quote:should one put the Enterprise DVDs first or last in their STAR TREK DVD collectionLast. They threw the Star Trek history continuum out the window so they shouldn’t be given any credit as a “real” prequel like the Star Wars Prequels.
Quote:Quote:should one put the Enterprise DVDs first or last in their STAR TREK DVD collectionLast. They threw the Star Trek history continuum out the window so they shouldn’t be given any credit as a “real” prequel like the Star Wars Prequels.
I will say I wasn’t much impressed with enterprise, except for a few select episodes. Did you see that the guy that played “Trip Tucker” on ENT was just on Atlantis as the wraith Michael?
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