Postby Mark42 » Sat Mar 14, 2009 2:28 pm
I'm not too sure why people are talking so much about picture quality because in my opinion the quality was never that totally high on its first release. I have no idea what quality of film stock was used but the show often looked slightly washed out, fuzzy or grainy compared with say the Gerry Anderson shows. Also all the footage with laser beams in would involve optical duplication, creating a copy of the original film which reduces film quality - and of course the end title footage always looked like it had been stored in a dustbin, very grainy as it was probably a copy of a copy of the original film.I've still got bits of Starfleet on video tape from the original broadcasts in the 1980s, and I've obviously watched these several times over the years so the quality of the new DVDs is exactly what I expected it to be. Remastering can't perform miracles, whats been done is good enough in my book - except there seems to be a little blob of muck near the centre of the screen in most episodes that bugging me.