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It is Official : Paramount Home Entertainment Goes with Blu-ray

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By GustavoLeao / 07:19, 21 February 2008 / General Star Trek

The Hollywood Reporter received an exclusive announcement from Paramount Home Entertainment on Wednesday saying, "We are pleased that the industry is moving to a single high-definition format, as we believe it is in the best interest of the consumer," the statement reads. "As we look to (begin) releasing our titles on Blu-ray, we will monitor consumer adoption and determine our release plans accordingly."

No further details were given. Still no word if Paramount will release the final two seasons of "Star Trek" the Original Series Remastered on HD DVD as they did the first season or if they will now release all three seasons on Blu-ray.

The four other majors committed to Blu-ray are Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment (along with its distributed MGM Home Entertainment label), Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment and Warner Home Video (including distributed labels New Line Home Entertainment, BBC Video and HBO Video). Mini-major Lionsgate also has been an exclusive Blu-ray backer since the start.

More info at the Hollywood Reporter.



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By: Cylykon (Odo's file, contact) @ 17:47:06 on Feb 22, 2008

I feared that S1 would mastered at a reduced bitrate to fit the smaller 30G HD-DVD. I would hope that they would re-master S1 at a higher bitrate to fill a full 50G Blu-ray disc; but the "decision makers" at Paramount are such cheap-ass bastards that it wouldn't surprise me to learn that they "planned ahead" and encoded S1 to fit onto a 25G single layer Blu-ray disc and used that to master 30G dual-layer HD-DVD discs.

Just call me "Jaded".


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By: bigfl (Odo's file, contact) @ 11:30:48 on Feb 21, 2008

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RE: They couldn't not? by Cylykon @ 16:44:29 on Feb 21
RE: They couldn't not? by Hober Mallow @ 14:08:43 on Feb 21
    RE: They couldn't not? by bigfl @ 03:40:20 on Feb 22

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By: sb2004 (Odo's file, contact) @ 08:31:26 on Feb 21, 2008

TrekToday was reporting that the collapse of HD-DVD meant that further remastering was actually cancelled, both in terms of actual execution and in terms of future release, since Toshiba was apparently bankrolling it.

It's very possible they (or their source) got it wrong. It would be interesting to get some confirmation to see what the deal is. I'm not in favor of the altering/remastering, but at the same time they might as well finish the whole damn thing if they've gone this far.

Al


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RE: Interesting by peter0302 @ 09:49:22 on Feb 21
    RE: Interesting by sb2004 @ 10:43:53 on Feb 21
RE: Interesting by Terry212 @ 09:25:05 on Feb 21
    RE: Interesting by prometheus 59650 @ 09:48:02 on Feb 21

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By: hawke5150 (Odo's file, contact) @ 07:25:00 on Feb 21, 2008

Hallelujah- Pass the bisquits! :)


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