Star Trek TNG Blu-ray remasters

[studioisms]

All seven seasons of Star Trek The Next Generation has been fully remastered to Blu-ray. They went back to the original film negatives & rescanned in high definition. I'm re-watching through the entire series, currently in season six. Truly spectacular to see this show look so incredible and is highly recommended for any fan... or anyone that has never done a proper binge viewing in order. SO AMAZING!

The film grain in beautiful, the colors pop off the screen. It's not without a few distractions. In the early episodes there's a few clips where the negative must have been lost and there's a cut to upressed NTSC. Sometimes the set pieces look pretty fake as they were not designed to hold up in HD. But those are little gripes don't really detract form the viewing.

But the huge glaring exception is the makeup on women's faces. As this series was designed for standard definition TV, the makeup on women's faces is an extreme caked on painted mess. I often feel sorry for them now that this comical application is visible & looks noting like a realistic application of lady makeup. It helps to pretend this is just future fashion or aliens just likes the extreme color applications.

[toto from oz]

Oh fantastic, hadn't heard of this, will have to watch. Rewatched the whole series a few years ago, but definitely have to give this a go. But it's always a double-edged sword isn't it, old TV shows remastered for HD, the sets are usually the bits the suffer some...shame to hear about the make up...SD or HD the make up should be decent, so that's a shame to hear...

[studioisms]

The old days of analog studio SD TV used so much light and the definition was so low that they would use much heavier and defined makeup -more highlights and shadows to compensate. So you could say the women in TNG were made to look their best for analog SD television. The days of B&W was even more unrealistic in person. Lipstick was often green because it contrasted to skin better and costumes would be made in crazy bright primary/secondary colors so each character might have a different shade of grey in the final shot.

But I digress, it's glorious to watch in HD. Unless you're watching the Commander Riker flashbacks Season 2 finale.... in HD that's a high bitrate train wreck.