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Star Trek Season 2 HD-DVD Cancelled
Format War Central is reporting that a Technicolor insider has informed them that work has stopped on CBS and Paramount's Star Trek: The Original Series Remastered - Season Two HD-DVD release.
They're saying that Toshiba was financing the production as part of an exclusive arrangement to have the title on HD-DVD only, and they've now pulled the plug.
We expect that Paramount and Universal may have official comments of their own as early as tomorrow morning.
We are going to give the real information on Star Trek Season 2’s delay cancellation.
An inside source at Technicolor has informed us that a few weeks ago Toshiba cancelled the work they were doing on Star Trek Season 2.
Toshiba had been the one paying for the re-mastering/encoding of Star Trek: TOS, which was part of their exclusive deal with Paramount.
Also part of the exclusive deal is that Paramount must use AVC in the encoding of the Star Trek Series, more specifically they must use Toshiba’s AVC encoder.
We think this was a way Toshiba could try to push their AVC encoder, which they had invested lots of money in.
Toshiba has had a hard time getting studios to purchase their AVC encoder, since VC-1 is so popular with studios on both sides of the format war.
A good example of this is Warner, who mandates VC-1 on all it’s discs.
Format War Central is reporting that a Technicolor insider has informed them that work has stopped on CBS and Paramount's Star Trek: The Original Series Remastered - Season Two HD-DVD release.
They're saying that Toshiba was financing the production as part of an exclusive arrangement to have the title on HD-DVD only, and they've now pulled the plug.
We expect that Paramount and Universal may have official comments of their own as early as tomorrow morning.
We are going to give the real information on Star Trek Season 2’s delay cancellation.
An inside source at Technicolor has informed us that a few weeks ago Toshiba cancelled the work they were doing on Star Trek Season 2.
Toshiba had been the one paying for the re-mastering/encoding of Star Trek: TOS, which was part of their exclusive deal with Paramount.
Also part of the exclusive deal is that Paramount must use AVC in the encoding of the Star Trek Series, more specifically they must use Toshiba’s AVC encoder.
We think this was a way Toshiba could try to push their AVC encoder, which they had invested lots of money in.
Toshiba has had a hard time getting studios to purchase their AVC encoder, since VC-1 is so popular with studios on both sides of the format war.
A good example of this is Warner, who mandates VC-1 on all it’s discs.
