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Star Trek "DeMastered" Video Service to Launch
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lopy writes "The Star Trek franchise has partnered with the little known DuroSport Corporation to launch a new video download service. The service will offer 'DeMastered' versions of classic Trek episodes. The new releases roll-back the quality enhancements of recent years and attempt to replicate the experience viewers had while watching the original series on TV in the 1960's. Medialoper was given a preview, and they've just posted a scathing review of this odd new service."
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Is it my turn to be modded insightful for no reason?
they need to add to the sound track ... things like:
Hey, you make a better door than window...
Do I have to clean my room NOW?
well, you get the picture
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Does that mean Kirk shoots first?
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What's the E in E=mc^2 mean, then?
But this is slashdot. A slashdoter who didn't build his own computer is like a Jedi who didn't build his own lightsaber!
Ooh! Will it automatically switch itself to black and white for those who didn't yet have a color set? It was a long time before my wife knew why "nameless assistant #1" who was the first killed by the monster was referred to as a "red-shirt" ("Did he delay his first year of acting to extend his eligibility?").
You save only 59 seconds over 8 miles by going 75 instead of 65. Do you really have to pass that guy? Do the Math!
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This story might have gotten me if it had been Star Wars instead. This sounds like an idea birthed in the depths of Lucas' infernal mind.
Energy. Which isn't a discreet number. No, the only constant in that equation is c, 3*10^8.
It gets cancelled every few weeks, and you have to start a letter writing campaign to save it.
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Ronald said nothing. He flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse, and rode madly off in all directions.
What's the E in E=mc^2 mean, then?
I think they just messed up the case. It should in fact be e. The story obviously isn't so good, what with a rating of 2.718 or so.
Of course I think a better rating for most of these stories would be h .
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Those of you who emulate Atari games on your amd64 supercomputers cannot whine.
Sometimes I need that trip to the past, to remind myself how crappy my youth television was.
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is that what you do after you see too much of Uhura in one episode?
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wait til it comes on in the middle of the night, and put a 5lb speaker magnet on top of my 13 inch tv, crappy nostalgic goodness.
ps i think the slashdotit thing is broken, has wierd numbers in it etc.. i dig it though hope it stays.. omg ponies
Now that iTunes has both the original and remastered 1st season, this is a rather week 4/1 post ;-(
The article refers to the 'original Moldovan broadcasts' of Star Trek. Surely everyone knows by now that the original Star Trek is Turkish. Why didn't they offer Turkish Trek for download?
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McCartney fans pay bus tickets. [...] Lennon fans too, with discretion.
NCC-1701E was TNG ship.
Certainly we meant 1701.
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How about implementing the noon rule, where jokes must be played (posted) before noon in the time zone the joker is in. Otherwise the joker (Zonk in this case) is the fool.
April Fool is dead and gone,
You're a fool to carry it on.
Loose lips lose spit.
That's only true in vacuum. The parent AC must have been referring to a medium where light travels even faster.
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E = 1110 = 14 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexadecimal
Fortune favors the bold.
I thought it was Slashrated E for everyone...
Is Durosport just a warmed over Borat joke pitched at the Slashdot demographic?
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No, I'm not a Moldovan or a Kazakh FYI.
And this Durosport sppof does seem a whole lot less racist (against xUSSR people and Muslims that is).
And for my last demonstration, I will show you t how politically correct and humorless I truly am, here is a link to Moldovan Internet stats:
http://www.loc.gov/rr/international/european/mold
ARRRR, ME MATIES.
Would actually be nice to have the original commercials and stuff. Would actually be nice to see Star Wars without a Jurrasic Park dino snuck into tatoine and those stupid rings around the explosions. Would actually be nice not to have to wonder if there really are subtle differences, or if it's just my memory.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
I'm all for it. I wish they would do it.
Matter of fact, I'm building my own "way back machine", an HTPC with a few terabytes and loaded with nothing but old TV shows from the 50's & 60's, maybe a few from the 70's.
It will play old TV shows according to a schedule and all the episodes will play in the proper sequence.
I'm editing out all the commercials so they won't be tainted by modern crap. I wish I could find copies of the old commercials of way back then too, that would be pretty neat to mix them in. It may take me a few years to gather all the shows I want but I have time. And I'll never grow tired of watching them over and over. Watching TV on this machine really will be like going back in time.
Lost in Space, Voyage to the bottom of the Sea, ST TOS, Time Tunnel, Green Hornet, Land of the Giants, Green Acres, Beverly Hillbillies, Gilligans Island, Addams Family (tos), The Munsters, etc.... Stuff that was on TV when I was a kid. Entertainment without gratuitous violence, sex and cursing. Just good clean fun.
Why? Because I despise 99.9% of contemporary TV programs, they simply suck.
Really. I'm stone cold serious.
No-one would take it seriously.
The answer for "SlashRating" is not pi, e, avogadro's number... it's 42 Pink Ponies (on the brain), take one down, pass the joint around...
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It's comforting to see that, in spite of all the strange upheavals on Slashdot, when everything seems to change, people are still regularly modded insightful for no reason at all. It's the one thing that doesn't change on April Fool's.
They haven't just created a new kind of multimedia service, they've pioneered a novel form faulty inference, which I propose be named the "DuroSport fallacy" in their honor: -(A-->B) --> (-A --> B).
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Lost in Space, Voyage to the bottom of the Sea, ST TOS, Time Tunnel, Green Hornet, Land of the Giants, Green Acres, Beverly Hillbillies, Gilligans Island, Addams Family (tos), The Munsters, etc....
Throw some of the old British TV shows in there as well. Things like The Prisoner, Thunderbirds, The Avengers, Doctor Who, etc. Having seen a few episodes of each of these, I think it would have been cool growing up watching them.
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some I liked, very random order-> Combat, the Gallant men, T.H.E. Cat, outer limits, one step beyond, ernie kovacs (where I saw the spaghetti tree spoof), you bet your life, the millionaire, honeymooners, kraft mystery theater, Topper, Chatter, romar of the jungle, ted mack and the amateur hour (I know two different people got on that show), candid camera, sgt. bilko, flash gordon, sky king, fury, sea hunt, clutch cargo (cartoon), wild cargo (not a cartoon), bandstand (hey, had cute girls and some tunes on it), bonanza, maverick, palladin, bounty hunter, rawhide,.. ...and I better stop, realise I wasted way too much time with TV back then...