Finally: Babylon 5 REMASTERED and Available for Streaming

[Ryujin]

As an aside I had completely forgotten that I had this on one of my RPG shelves, until I saw it while looking for the old WEG Star Wars game books for a friend on Facebook.

EDIT Sorry, downsized to something a little more reasonable.

 

[Umbran]

I'll watch things streaming, but I do not like paying the price they normally charge to purchase a streaming show which probably won't be around (probably being the key word) as long as the physical media.

I'm not purchasing a single streaming show. I'm paying a subscription fee to access a large library of content, which I use fairly frequently, for more than just the one program.

Plus, despite what people claim, there's a difference between watching a Blu-ray in HD and streaming HD. Streaming is about 1/4 as good as the Blu-Ray physical disc, so if it's a remaster, would prefer to see it in all it's glory.

If it is a UHD Blu-ray disk, you have a 4k TV, and you typically sit close enough to it, there can be a difference, yes. Since it doesn't exist in that format, I don't have such a TV, and my room layout doesn't really support sitting that close, these are not barriers to me.

There is such a thing as making perfect the enemy of good. I will not deny myself an awesome sci-fi story because the visual presentation is less than the absolute best available to modern consumer technology.

 

[Ryujin]

I'm not purchasing a single streaming show. I'm paying a subscription fee to access a large library of content, which I use fairly frequently, for more than just the one program.



If it is a UHD Blu-ray disk, you have a 4k TV, and you typically sit close enough to it, there can be a difference, yes. Since it doesn't exist in that format, I don't have such a TV, and my room layout doesn't really support sitting that close, these are not barriers to me.

There is such a thing as making perfect the enemy of good. I will not deny myself an awesome sci-fi story because the visual presentation is less than the absolute best available to modern consumer technology.

I recently bought the DVDs of the two "Kolchak: The Night Stalker" movies and the full run of the TV series. You can bet your life that they aren't even full DVD quality, let alone UHD BluRay quality, but that didn't stop me from enjoying the hell out of them

 

[Zardnaar]

I'm not purchasing a single streaming show. I'm paying a subscription fee to access a large library of content, which I use fairly frequently, for more than just the one program.



If it is a UHD Blu-ray disk, you have a 4k TV, and you typically sit close enough to it, there can be a difference, yes. Since it doesn't exist in that format, I don't have such a TV, and my room layout doesn't really support sitting that close, these are not barriers to me.

There is such a thing as making perfect the enemy of good. I will not deny myself an awesome sci-fi story because the visual presentation is less than the absolute best available to modern consumer technology.

We've got 3 streaming services. Was looking at cutting Disney but they added Star to it and there's a lot of movies and shows we want to watch on it.

Firefly looked nice. Watching Alien right now. For 1979 looks great.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

We've got 3 streaming services. Was looking at cutting Disney but they added Star to it and there's a lot of movies and shows we want to watch on it.

Firefly looked nice. Watching Alien right now. For 1979 looks great.

Ugh. Streaming services.

Right now, I have three.
Netflix (because I've had it forever ... you know, back when they shipped you DVDs).
Prime (because I have it for shipping, and hey, free stuff).
HBOMax (because HBO was awesome, and then they just put in all of this amazing stuff, from Studio Ghibli to everything DC, to all the movies).

And yet, I don't have Disney+ (Marvel, Star Wars), Paramount+ (STAR TREK! NO!!!!!!), or Hulu.

... it's a bizarre situation. On the one hand, with just the three services I have, I have so much to watch that I never, ever run out. And yet, by not having some of the other services, I feel like I'm missing out (haven't seen Wandavision or the Mandalorian, nor have I see the latest Star Trek series).

I feel like I'm at the biggest feast, gorging myself, and there's someone saying, "Hey, next table over they've got really good food you should try!"

 

[Umbran]

And yet, I don't have Disney+ (Marvel, Star Wars), Paramount+ (STAR TREK! NO!!!!!!), or Hulu.

... it's a bizarre situation. On the one hand, with just the three services I have, I have so much to watch that I never, ever run out. And yet, by not having some of the other services, I feel like I'm missing out (haven't seen Wandavision or the Mandalorian, nor have I see the latest Star Trek series).

I feel like I'm at the biggest feast, gorging myself, and there's someone saying, "Hey, next table over they've got really good food you should try!"

Worse, it isn't that someone is saying it - it is actually true - there's good stuff over on the other table.

I look at it this way - the basic, with commercials, offering of Paramount+ is going to be $4.99/month. If they have only one show I want to watch each week, that's $1.20 per show. So long as I am watching at least that much, it is a reasonable expense.

Repeat for each service.

 

[payn]

Covid has increased my viewing time immensely that im burning through services. Time to cancel Netflix for a bit. I might have to finally try CBS plus or whatever.

 

[Mallus]

What's more, maybe that means there's hope for shows like DS9?

Yeah, the B5 remasters show what you can do with rescanning the original film, color correction, and good upscaling. Is there a reason you couldn't do the same for DS9? I remember the TNG remasters requiring a lot more effort & money, basically needing all there post-production work redone, but I don't recall why.

One of my favourite SciFi arcs. The acting was soap opera grade, getting somewhat better with time, but the stories held up.

The acting from Jurasik and Katsulis was great. Furlann, too, considering her role was sorta Space Galadriel + Space Mom. My friends and I used to joke the actors on the show couldn't play convincing humans, but the people playing aliens were terrific.

(I guess Jerry Doyle playing Jerry Doyle was perfect as Garibaldi, since Garibaldi was just Jerry Doyle)

 

[Umbran]

Worse, it isn't that someone is saying it - it is actually true - there's good stuff over on the other table.

I look at it this way - the basic, with commercials, offering of Paramount+ is going to be $4.99/month. If they have only one show I want to watch each week, that's $1.20 per show. So long as I am watching at least that much, it is a reasonable expense.

Repeat for each service.

I want to follow up her on considering budgets for services...

How much is okay to pay for services for you? In a world where a coffee is several dollars, let us consider. Is $1.50 a reasonable price to pay for an hour's entertainment? Or maybe you figure $3 per day is a reasonable cost for media you consume?

At $3 per day, you can have Paramount+ ($5/month), Netflix ($9/month), Hulu ($6/mo) - and that's only from the budget from the first week!

 

[Umbran]

Yeah, the B5 remasters show what you can do with rescanning the original film, color correction, and good upscaling. Is there a reason you couldn't do the same for DS9?

No reason other than the cost. For a recent documentary (What We Left Behind), producers did a remaster of a couple of scenes, just to show the result. For example: