Data Can Be a Real Boy!

On G4's Attack of the Show (AOTS) today, I saw a snippet of the new release of Star Trek: The Next Generation (ST:TNG) on Blu-Ray...

I'm all for improvement of technology, (I upgraded to an Samsung Galaxy S II...) and Blu-Ray is supposed to make the movies and/or TV shows come to life, but seriously, how much more real can CG from 1987-94 get without seeing the lines to cover up the green screen? Having to buy new copies of movies you already own is annoying, isn't it? Maybe I'm just retro-fashioned, but I like my DVD drive in my laptop, and my XBox just fine. The graphics are MADE to be blurred so the general populus has a more difficult time discerning reality from the fantasy.

Did it ever occur to anyone that, perhaps, people might LIKE the fuzziness and the less-than-adequate special effects? In my opinion, I think the original release of the first three Star Wars movies (and by "first three", I mean 4, 5, and 6) was good enough. The special effects were COLOSSAL for 1977, and they still made the world of "a galaxy far, far away" believable in 1997, when my fourteen-year-old self was watching them for the umpteenth time on VHS. (I like BOTH Star Trek and Star Wars. Don't judge me.)

The realism that Blu-Ray produces is almost eerie to the point that I don't even want to watch, anymore, and that's just the demos I see in the electronics section of Fred Meyer (NW chain of one-stop-shop stores)!! I can't be alone here. Leave a comment, and tell me how you feel about Blu-Ray in general, or what you think about ST:TNG on Blu-Ray.

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