Comment on “You don’t grab power, you accumulate it quietly, without anyone noticing.” – Grand Nagus Zek
paraphrand@lemmy.world 8 months agoIt almost looks like an upscale using the laserdiscs instead of the DVDs might yield a nicer image.
Comment on “You don’t grab power, you accumulate it quietly, without anyone noticing.” – Grand Nagus Zek
paraphrand@lemmy.world 8 months agoIt almost looks like an upscale using the laserdiscs instead of the DVDs might yield a nicer image.
spyd3r@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
This is being researched and experimented with at this very moment. A couple episodes are currently in the testing phase.
Normally a DVD would win a matchup for PQ, except in rare instances, but there are a lot of problems with the ST DVD releases which evens the playing field.
Paramount jamming 4x45 minute episodes plus extras onto a single layer 4.7gb disc is a major one. This adds in a ton of lossy compression artifacts and degrades the image substantially. By comparison, the LD has 1 episode per disc and there is no compression because its analog (Not without its own downsides though).