Comment on About bajoran's actors makeup
IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 5 hours ago
I loved PIC S3 and definitely seeing Ro Laren again, but yeah, I did notice the makeup was a lot more subtle than in her TNG appearances.
Now I wonder if it was always supposed to be that subtle but had to be “exaggerated” a bit back then to show up on older TVs. Kind of like how the Addams Family set was mostly pink so it appeared correctly on old black and white TV sets.
blackbeans@lemmy.zip 5 hours ago
Not so sure about that. Actually tv in the '90s was not that bad. In terms of resolution it looked similar to 480p video, but without any artifacts. Furthermore due to the nature of how a CRT works, those tvs actually had less motion blur than flat screens.
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
TNG and DS9 (and early Voyager) episodes were mastered to Beta tapes which had a best case functional resolution of 280p. This is why the TNG Blu-ray’s took so much effort and why they haven’t done Blu-ray’s of DS9 or Voyager, there aren’t film masters to scan they have to be recreated from the original negatives.
blackbeans@lemmy.zip 3 hours ago
Beta tapes are 480i, 720x480 interlaced
That’s more than enough resolution to clearly identify faces.
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
Only ED-Beta was capable of that and it wasn’t released until after TNG was on the air.
The GameBoy Advance had a 240x160 resolution and they released video carts for that. I wasn’t saying it was too low to see faces, just commenting on the technical details of TNG, etc.