About time "Star trek VI" gets re-re-re-released on DVD in its original widescreen ratio...

[Deja Q]

2.35:1 is so much nicer than 2.10:1.

Theatrical cut instead of the expanded version with 3 minutes of inane segments added... never mind what was hashed in for the so-called director's cut...

[Archae]

1. Where is it available?

My original DVD got trashed by a defective DVD player a few years ago.

[Deja Q]

3. amazon.com, best buy, walmart... just look for the new and poorly made cover:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002I9Z8D0/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_1?pf_rd_p=486539851&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=B002I9Z8DK&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=0MXQRHFADJDMSQG05B4V

[cynatnite]

2. And I bought the blu-ray set with all the movies...

I'm not happy with that set. In The Undiscovered Country they omitted a scene where Worf's grandpa and the Commandant observe that the dead Klingon is not really a Klingon. Pissed me off.

I want freaking UNCUT versions...with every scene intact. I'm just a purist that way and for it not to be so in blu-rays of all things...well, I'm just not happy.

[Deja Q]

4. That was one of a handful of scenes added in especially for the home video release.

Along with an extended scene where, after the President says he's not above the law, his buddies come in to describe (in a badly acted way, but that's Odo for you) their plan to rescue Kirk and McCoy... and, if I recall, where Valeris and Scotty talk about the lack of Klingon tear ducts...

Ironically, what is finally sold is the actual theatrical cut. What was shown in the theaters.

What pissed me off is that the blu-ray set only had Trek II properly remastered. The other movies used lower-grade material and upsampled, with heavy doses of DNR and edge enhancement applied. I'd complain too, for that price... and the edge enhancement artifacting can be seen in a number of scenes on the re-re-re-release of the standard-def version too. But I digress, and since I don't have blu-ray I'll have to take everyone's word for the lower quality, but it's not atypical of Paramount to be cheap.

[hunter]

5. Sometimes I wish I'd never trained myself to see digitization artifacts...

The more I played with ffmpeg and mencoder the worse it got. Now I can't look at any digital video stream without noticing the faults. Some DVDs look like nobody gave a damn about the encoding, maybe like some intern was allowed fifteen minutes to set up a two hour film, and others are manipulated in such a heavy handed way it changes the mood of the entire movie.