diyan55  wrote:
>
> For those of us who are still fans of the original Star Trek, I saw an
> ad on TV that Paramount-I think-is releasing the above on HD-DVD's.
> Get 'em while they're hot!

They were remastered and some of the external CGI shots and
special effects were redone.  We sat The Menagerie at a local
cinema recently.  It was put on by some promotional company.
Some folks were conducting a spontaneous ST trivia contest
when we arrived.

The extra detail does make a difference.  The facial wrinkles on
Jeffery Hunter are better at showing his emotions during the
story than ever made it on screen on the older low resolution
formats.

Ob  - I recorded the original The Gathering live on VHS the
evening it was first broadcast.  For years I've known the tape
was somewhere in a big stack of boxes.  I finally went through
enough boxes to find the exact tape it's on.  Two assorted ST
episodes are before it on the tape and two more after it, so I
recorded it in SLP mode.  I fast forwarded and rewound it several
times to retention and this morning I set the Tivo on a trial dub
of the first 4 hours of the tape.  Tonight I'll know how much
drop-out, how good the sound is and so on.  In the next couple
of days I'll record it at Tivo's High resolution that fits 2 hours on
a single DVD.  Wow-hoo - Comparing the original sound track
with the remastered one in the DVD release to see what Kosh
said the first time around ...
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