Star Trek Season 2 Blu-ray
Review:
Others have extolled the greatness of this set as well as I could have. Stated simply, Star Trek (Season 2) on Blu-ray is pure greatness. The picture is phenomenal. You should buy it. Now.
They have also taken full advantage of the new Mobile-Blu and BD Live features, but at an apparent cost. I have discovered that when I press stop (once) on my machine (JVC XV-BP1), with or w/out using the remote, and then restart it, it does NOT pick up where I left off, but rather goes right to the beginning of the disc and re-loads the menu, and I have to navigate back to the episode I was watching and then to the point in the episode where I left off. VERY irritating.
Additionally, the "zoom" feature on my player does not work with this set. The Season 1 Blu-ray set allowed for both zoom and stop memory. I use a standard TV with a terrific picture with my Blu-ray player (no bucks for LCD or Plasma... yet), so on the Season 1 set the zoom feature eliminated the letterboxing that is created on all four sides of the picture on my TV. Thus, I am forced to watch Season 2 episodes in a smaller picture size than Season 1 with black bars all the way around. I don't know if this or the lack of stop memory is a production flaw or something that had to be sacrificed for the Mobile-Blu and BD Live features, but whatever the cause, I am unhappy about it.
Conclusion:
These are the only things wrong with an otherwise perfect set. I can't wait to see what it looks like on 1080p because on standard TV it looks fantastic!
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