HD Transfer of Star Trek: TNG To Arrive This Year

Posted by timothy on Saturday September 10, 2011 @09:15PM from the watch-for-the-strings-holding-things-up dept.

psychonaut writes "Digital Bits have confirmed through sources at CBS Paramount that CBS are working on a high-definition transfer of Star Trek: The Next Generation. A four-episode Blu-Ray sampler disc is to be released later this year; the episodes featured will be the two-part pilot 'Encounter at Farpoint,' 'Sins of the Father,' and fan favourite 'The Inner Light.' On 2 September, LeVar Burton tweeted that he had stopped by CBS Paramount Television City to check the progress and was 'mindblown' by the conversion. TrekCore has an article with further details and an analysis of some of the technical hurdles involved in remastering these episodes."

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Re:4K? by stms · 2011-09-10 22:36 · Score: 1, Flamebait

First of all 4k is HD it's just higher than 1080p. Second of all were not at the end of the "HD(1080p) era". Have you ever really looked into buying a 4k setup the cheapest way to do it is to buy 16 1080p projectors. Then you're going to need to to buy a hell of a computer with at least 4 (more likely 8) extremely high end graphics cards and dual i7s. After all that the only real media that will effectively use that resolution are games (and I'm not even sure about games). 4K (or 2k really) is no where near mainstream yet nor is it needed until we start covering the walls of our homes with screens.