B5Erik

It seems like with all the high end collectors moving too 4K that Blu Ray is kind of being forgotten.

Well, it sure seems like Paramount has forgotten it, to a degree.

While they are putting out the new Star Trek The Motion Picture Director's Edition on Blu Ray, it seems that they aren't upgrading the full Trek catalog in Blu.

4K UHD? You bet. Blue? Nope.

And, worse yet, they're re-releasing Star Trek VI on Blu, but it DOESN'T include the Director's Cut. The DVD had it. The new 4K has it. But, from all I'm reading (including the review on The Digital Bits) the new Blu Ray reissue does NOT have the Director's Cut. WTF???

I just don't get it. They remastered it in 4K, so it would have been cheap and easy to include that cut on the Blu Ray.

A lot of us don't have 4K TV's, and can't afford to upgrade yet again. Is this just Paramount just giving the middle finger to the fans who haven't yet upgraded?

Josh Z

Paramount is frustrating. In the cases where they bother to include a Blu-ray in the 4K package, it's usually the old previous disc and not the new remastered transfer. And sometimes they don't bother at all.

B5Erik

Well, I'm not sure what to do when I get this Blu Ray (it's being delivered today - I ordered it months ago).

I can get the previous Blu Ray much cheaper, but the reviews I've read said they used too much DNR but it still has a ton of digital noise. Waxy, plastic faces, and digital noise in dark scenes.

This one is supposed to be a much better mastering job. But if it doesn't have the Director's Cut (which has a handful of scenes that I love that aren't in the theatrical version)... To keep or return. I'll have to make up my mind quickly if it really doesn't have the Director's Cut.

B5Erik

Star Trek VI Blu Ray does NOT have the Director's Cut. And that's a slap in the face to a lot of Star Trek fans who just can't afford 4k. The DVD looks pretty weak compared to Blu Ray. Yeah, this sucks.


On the other hand, TMP Blu Ray is the Director's Cut, and it looks amazing. They did a great job with that one.

So why the Director's Cut on ST: TMP and ST II TWOK, but not ST VI???

Josh Z

The 2009 Blu-ray is also a lousy transfer smothered in DNR. It's a poor disc all around.

flansered

I'm hearing mixed things about the new blu-ray releases. In some places I am hearing that they are just reissues of the old discs from 2009, and in some places I have heard that they are new transfers. Does anyone know which is true? I know that the new TMP disc is obviously new because it is a different version of the movie than the 2009 disc, and WoK is probably the same disc as the 2016 director's cut blu-ray. I guess I am really just asking about 3-6.