How do you not have the rights to a single episode of a show you own?
And this is a recent removal too. I watched it just a few weeks ago.
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Paramount+ removes one of Star Trek Deep Space Nine's finest episodes (Duet) due to "streaming rights"
- Thread starter DrForester
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How do you not have the rights to a single episode of a show you own?
And this is a recent removal too. I watched it just a few weeks ago.
maybe, but for a single episode?
wouldnt it be for like... a season?
Not necessarily if it's tied to something like broadcast of a specific episode on their cable network.
Could be a song or something in the episode that a third party is disputing that they need to deal with.
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Think only song rights DS9 might have to deal with are some of Vic's song's but he wasn't introduced to the series until much later.
Musics from the main composer for this episode.
The episode was written by interns and not so subtly based on Robert Shaw's work so perhaps there is/was a behind the scenes legal dispute that requires extra money or legal agreements to stream this particular episode (as any contract in 1993 wouldn't include streaming rights). Or maybe CBS lawyers are recommending to take it down temporarily while an unseen legal dispute is ongoing?
It's just weird that the episode is still up on Netflix & Amazon. Unless they simply haven't gotten the memo yet about taking it down
Pretty crazy that the interns of DS9 wrote better Star Trek than all of the current team...
Since I agree that this is a highlight episode of DS9, I hope that it will not be an issue for long. I do have all of DS9 on DVD, but it would be sad if the episode was to turn into a "lost episode".
Thats really weird. I cant imagine why it would effect one episode.
But I've been watching DS9 to cleanse the brain of Picard. Really not looking forward to DS9 leaving Netflix
But I've been watching DS9 to cleanse the brain of Picard. Really not looking forward to DS9 leaving Netflix
No. They lost money on the TNG remaster and never did it for DS9 or VOY.
Just for kicks, I can tell you lossless backups from dvd/blurays for a few of the shows are:
DS9: 317 GB
TNG: 1.25 TB
DSC: 345 GB
In addition to the reason that Wrexis gave there is also the fact that the cgi special effects shots were done at SDTV resolution so they'd either have to upscale everything that had cgi in it which would look bad next to the rest of the footage or they would have to re-render all of it, and thats even if they had all the original files still in a format that could be put through a modern rendering pipeline.
No matter the reason, this is too bad.
Hopefully it gets more people to watch the episode where it is available. It's my favourite episode, in spite of all the highs that come later in the series.
Harris Yulin kills it, as he always does.
Hopefully it gets more people to watch the episode where it is available. It's my favourite episode, in spite of all the highs that come later in the series.
Harris Yulin kills it, as he always does.
I know right lol, it's the number of episodes 20 something per season and 7 seasons. Each episode would just fit on a dual layer dvd at around 7gb. For comparison a lossless backup of the 4K UHD Blurays of Game of Thrones clocks in at a only slightly larger 1.83 TB due to it having way shorter seasons. Even though in 4K it's around 25GB per episode.
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If they're not doing a remaster for Voyager, there's not a chance that DS9 gets one. They're pushing Voyager nostalgia big in new-Trek and doing nothing with DS9.
And, as we all know from sci-fi shows, digital files cannot be copied, so they have to take it down to work on it.
Well DS9 is in SD and Discovery has way fewer seasons and way fewer episodes per season too. Just to add to those numbers, TOS is 618GB and Enterprise is 744GB ripped from BRs.
That Enterprise number kinda surprises me, sounds like they did right by them. With the way the studio seemed to just want to be done with it I would not have been surprised had those blurays been low bitrate, stuff as many on a disc as they could affairs.
Enterprise is HD. The earlier seasons were filmed wide-screen while the later seasons moved to HD (I believe the 4th season was even filmed digitally).
Also I believe Enterprise's original releases were garbage (at least in the US). Those numbers are probably from the higher quality (and more native) releases that came after
There are AI upscaled versions of DS9 out there, that honestly look really good.
Do you have a source for that? I don't recall hearing it got a rerelease with a higher quality encode.