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Nice. But I suppose the quality also depends on the source material that got pressed on those disks?! I mean the credits are CGI and had been digitally created in a certain resolution and then been converted. But I really don't know what kind of cameras and CGI tech they used for TV productions in the 90s. Might have been magnetic tape that isn't the highest quality unlike something that had originally been recorded on analog film.
Edit: Wikipedia says Voyager is the first series with CGI effects for exterior shots of the spaceships. And the effects are rendered in "standard television resolution". So they should be in 480p (or 'i')? But that seems to align well with Laserdisc which also contain standard NTSC or PAL video signals.
They are 480i. But the difference may be that DS9 and Voyager were ~~shot and~~ stored on tape. The laserdisc was sourced from those tapes much earlier so it's probably a higher quality transfer than the DVDs which came later. Looking on memory alpha the first laser disc releases were about a decade before they made it to DVD. The image quality may be better on laserdisc.
Thanks, that explains a lot. Yeah, unfortunately some initial masters and releases are sub-par. Guess it's the same for DVDs as it is for some music album releases. And I mean for TV shows from a certain era there's not much to be done. Glad the VHS or DVD wasn't the only release. I watched some DVD a year ago an let's say I wasn't impressed. It's not up to today's standards of high definition TVs and to me it's neither a valuable collector's item.
IIRC from the "What we left behind" documentary, they were shot on film. They even had a few minutes of HD material scanned from the film reels. It's the CGI that was baked only into the tape version that makes it so difficult to do a HD remaster. And why they went back to the tapes when producing the DVD release.