Originally posted by: ShotgunSteven
Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
yea i've seen collectors sites sell film pieces or whatever... i hope that doesn't mean they sold off the original prints to be cut up for collectors.
glitches? you talking tos or tng? the dvd of tng was uniformly fuzzy video tape quality. not much can be done with that really.
I meant glitches in TNG. Didn't notice the fuzz really, likely due to the crappy television the DVD player was hooked up to. That will suck when watching them on a decent set.
Since I have a large 37 inch screen SD TV, I have noticed this grainyness on STNG episodes before. It appears mostly in low light scenes where they have lowered the fstop setting on the cameras too much or used completely different cameras to allow for low light filming. On some episodes it is REALLY noticable to the point of distraction. It may also be partly due to the fact they used different film crews and cameras on the various episodes, too. So there is no set standards for low light filming in place.
When they edited the series together after filming you would think they would have noticed these obvious grainy video quality problems. But because of tight production schedules, even if they did notice the poor quality, they would not have the time or money to reshoot overly grainy scenes where the cameras were not properly calibrated for low light.
And there was a ton of scenes throughout that series that were filmed in low light, like caves, dark corridors and the like. So the problem appears to be in nearly every episode, somewhere. On some episodes it is so severe it looks like they sandblasted the film. And when it occurs very badly, it also looks like they changed the speed of the film or the frames per second, too. Almost like they removed alternate frames from the final print, like it is a bit in slow motion, if you look closely. I don't think you can ever hope to clean up all that grainyness no matter what process they might use on it.
On a large screen HDTV an HD transfer will undoubtedly suck, too. Kind of like the HD transfer of Sleepy Hollow for the same low light reasons.