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1. Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Dec-2023 12:24:41 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

   Among the Queen songs I hold the dearest, most of them were written by May, so there's my bias. 😁

   Apart from "Mr. Bad Guy" I also have "Back to the Light" by May and "Happiness?" by Taylor and I've listened to them a lot. Of these, May's album is the one that sounds like a Queen album missing 75% of Queen.

   May is not as good as Queen, they all needed each other to be at their best, but the production level on that album is Queen level, and I think that's a fairly unbiased opinion.

   My suspicion is that both Mercury and Taylor had too much of a say on their albums and May might have been less of a strong-willed auteur and more of a musician working with a studio team when making his.

   • michiel (michiel@social.tchncs.de)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Dec-2023 12:24:39 UTC michiel

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     @clacke TOS was all shot on film, including effects TNG, DS9 and VOY were all shot on film, but the effects were only done on video. For TNG, they made the effort to recreate all the special effects digitally. There's nothing but money preventing them from doing so for DS9 and VOY.

     ENT was filmed on digital video in the later seasons.

   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Dec-2023 12:24:40 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     An example from the #StarTrek world is how TNG has been remastered from film but DS9 and VOY haven't, which is why ironically the older series looks better on your modern screen.

     From what I gather, all three were shot on film, but the newer ones were edited at TV quality and had lots of digital effects that would also have to be remade.

     Babylon 5 was remastered recently and they had the same issue as DS9 and VOY, but they went ahead and did the editing and I think the effects again. I would welcome a fact check on this.

   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Dec-2023 12:24:41 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     The reason I went back and watched these videos that I haven't watched for a long time, or perhaps never, was because Tom Scott made a video about music video HD remasters.

     Some are brilliant re-scans and re-edits from film reels, and some are just upscales from TV recordings, either because those are the only originals, or because the record label was lazy.

     Mercury's song is an example of the former, Smash Mouth's "All Star" is an example of the latter.

     farside.link/invidious/watch?v…

     youtube.com/watch?v=CkysCJBdGt…