DS9 and TNG often ran back-to-back in certain markets.   DS9's Nielsen household ratings were only 1% lower than TNG.   There was some dropoff, but the difference wasn’t that dramatic.

You gotta be trolling. B5's season 1 effects look horrible, where you can see individual pixels of the computer screen. They vastly improved as they moved from 8 megahertz computers to 200 megahertz computers in season 2. Finally, Foundation Imaging was a third-party company Not in jms control.

> Most of the masters were lost because Foundation Imaging had to give them to Netter Digital, which lost them when it tanked.

Buffy would have been mostly-okay, if WB had stayed with the 4x3 ratio instead of trying to make it widescreen.  Joss Whedon wrote: “Buffy was shot 4x3 cuz TVs were shaped that way. Widescreen Buffy is nonsense.”

> DS9 is doable since it didn’t go 100% CGI until much later

70,000 is a small addition, since the original production cost was (adjusting for inflation) 3.2 million per episode. So the HD remastering increased Paramount’s per episode cost to approximately 3.3 million.

(1) You are misspelling Bluray. (2) Other shows from HBO, Showtime, AMC are only 10 to 15 episodes per season, where TNG is 26 episodes. So you’re getting 175 to 225% more content. OF COURSE that will cost more

WB asked Netflix and Amazon to provide money to redo the CGI in Babylon 5 from DVD quality to HD quality..... both rejected the request. So apparently they have no interest in funding remastering of old shows.

>Essentially, for the HD release of Star Trek, all people had to do was scan each episode.

$120 is how much Each TNG Season was on DVD.

I tell them “I don’t have cable.  I use an antenna and it’s FREE.”  They don’t know what to say that competes with free.

It says the ATT employee would make-up a bogus Phone Activation Fee of $20, and then say the Directv fee was only $10, so it was cheaper to signup.

Yes the title is annoying. The author is probably using landline (DSL or Cable) to type the article onto the website. We all still use landline in some form.

If you order McDonalds “Sweet Onion BBQ” burgerand you discover the guy forgot the onions, do you just walk away and say “oh well”? There’s such a thing as being TOO easy of a customer.

In Planet Hollywood they have something called “The Tipsy Robot”. Unfortunately it is incredibly slow (even though there’s technically two robots serving). About one drink per 3 minutes. They won’t replace the fast-paced bartending needed for restaurants during peak hours, or nightclubs. 

The Tipsy Robot is incredibly slow (even though there’s technically two of them serving). About one drink per 3 minutes. They won’t replace the fast-paced bartending needed for restaurants during peak hours, or nightclubs.

The Syfy Letter ignores the biggest flaw: Putting an intelligent science-oriented show after a non-intelligent episode of staged wrestling. No one will stomach the pain of sitting through that crap. SGU (and also B5 on TNT) both had very bad lead-ins with wrestling receding them.

I have never understood why I’m supposed to tip in SOME restaurants, but not others. The McDonalds server takes my order, cooks the food, and brings it to me on a tray. But he/she never gets tipped.....and proves the tipping system is broken. (In a fair system either ALL servers would be tipped, or none would,…

Even if you use Variable Bitrate it will never go higher than 320 kbit/s as that’s the maximum allowed by the standard. (It also means VBR will never sound better than a Constant Bitrate MP3 at 320).

The last Olympian who wanted to be a star, SASHA COHEN, dropped out of the spotlight in about three years. She didn’t have the skills to be an actress, and then she disappeared from mention