Win: Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Next Level on Blu-ray!
We have three copies of Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Next Level on Blu-ray to give away!
Star Trek: The Next Generation® The Next Level, from Paramount Home Entertainment and CBS Home Entertainment, will be beaming up on a single Blu-ray disc on 30th January 2012 to give fans a taste of the iconic series to be released in HD later this year. We have three copies of Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Next Level on Blu-ray to give away! One of the most popular series in the Star Trek franchise, Star Trek: The Next Generation® celebrates its 25th anniversary in 2012. It premiered in first-run syndication during the week of September 28, 1987 and ran through 1994. The disc will take fans aboard the Starship Enterprise with Captain Jean-Luc Picard and his crew and includes the feature-length pilot Encounter at Farpoint as well as two more fan favourite episodes, The Inner Light (Season 5) and Sins of the Father (Season 3). The single Blu-ray disc will be available for a suggested retail price of £9.99. All 178 episodes from seven seasons will be transferred to true high-definition 1080p for release over the next two years on Blu-ray. Set in the 24th century on the Starship Enterprise, about 100 years after the original Star Trek series took place, the series starred Patrick Stewart as Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Jonathan Frakes as Commander William T. Riker, LeVar Burton as Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge, Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi, Brent Spiner as Lt. Commander Data, Michael Dorn as Lieutenant Worf, Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher and Wil Wheaton as her son Wesley Crusher. Star Trek: The Next Generation® won numerous accolades, including 18 Emmy® awards, and was the first and only syndicated television show to be nominated for the Emmy® for Outstanding Drama Series for its seventh season. It was also ranked #46 on TV Guides 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time list in 2002. Transferring Star Trek: The Next Generation® to high-definition presented numerous challenges The series was originally shot on film and then transferred to videotape, which was used to edit episodes together. In order to create true HD masters, CBS is going back to the original uncut film negative all 25,000 plus film reels of it and cutting the episodes together exactly the way they originally aired. The visual effects were all shot on film and will be painstakingly recompositioned, not upconverted from videotape. The newly cut film will then be transferred to true high-definition with 7.1 DTS Master Audio. Denise and Mike Okuda are consulting on the project. All you need to do for your chance of winning a copy of the Blu-ray is email contest@obsessedwithfilm.com with the e-mail header Star Trek: The Next Generation. Make sure you leave your full name and address and if you are under 18 you have your parents permission to enter. Winners will be picked at random and notified around February 10th.