Star Trek "DeMastered" Video Service to Launch

SlashRating^© E slashdottit! ^tm 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."

Comments

My turn yet?

[Mikachu]

Is it my turn to be modded insightful for no reason?

Re:My turn yet?

[bcat24]

Could I please have one of those delicious-looking insightful moderations?

Demastered

[dekkerdreyer]

Does that mean Kirk shoots first?

My favorite part of this service

[Anonymous Coward]

It gets cancelled every few weeks, and you have to start a letter writing campaign to save it.

Re:My favorite part of this service

[Evilest Doer]

It gets cancelled every few weeks, and you have to start a letter writing campaign to save it.

I would love to see the look on Paramount executives' faces when they notice the "Save Star Trek" bumper stickers someone put on their cars. Or, do we still have to do it to NBC executives just for old times sake? I would only be afraid that Rick Berman would use it as an excuse to make yet another Star Trek series.

how retro

[cyberbob2351]

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.

Wrong country

[Ed Avis]

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?

How to shoot yourself in the foot

[Monsieur_F]

Moderators: Mod this post insightful too, please.

Meta-moderators: Mod the moderation unfair, please.

E?

[fermion]

What is E?

NCC-1701E was TNG ship.

Certainly we meant 1701.

Noon Rule

[fyoder]

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.

Re:Demaster?

[saskboy]

Unmastered versions are popular too with retro fans. It's better to experience unmastered than the demastered remasters.

I know it's BS but,

[pair-a-noyd]

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.

On a topsy-turvy day like April Fool's...

[ChePibe]

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.