Side-by-Side DVD and Blu-ray Comparison of TNG Opening Credits

If you’re interested in how the visual accuracy compares between the original DVD release of The Next Generation and the new remastered Blu-ray, this video is for you. YouTube user gomtuu123 has created a side-by-side look at the opening credits from “Encounter at Farpoint.” It’s a great way to see exactly what the small differences are in this sequence between the two versions.

It should be noted that the video is scaled down so it is not intended as a quality comparison. Instead it just intended for accuracy comparison.

Differences that gomtuu123 notes are a slightly different angle when the Enterprise flies by at high speed, the addition of interior lights that can now be seen as the ship stretches when going to warp, and a different starfield between Denise Crosby’s name and the second time the Enterprise goes to warp.

Watch the comparison video below. You can find gomtuu123’s YouTube channel here.

CBS Releases the Third Trailer for TNG Remastered

We’re just weeks away from the release of the first full serving of Star Trek: The Next Generation remastered in HD, and CBS has now released a third preview trailer showing the best comparison yet. Unlike the earlier previews, this trailer focuses entirely the incredible details that are bubbling to the surface. Using quick wipes the video alternates between the original SD release and the new HD remastered version of “Encounter at Farpoint.” If you’re not yet gathering your latinum for the January 31 release of “The Next Level” Blu-ray, this preview is sure to make it so.

TNG HD Second Teaser: An Original SD and HD Comparison

Excitement has been building since the official announcement that Star Trek: The Next Generation is being remastered in HD and coming to Blu-ray; but the first teaser trailer from CBS didn’t give much an hint as to what we’ll actually see. Now the studio has released a second trailer and we can at last get a glimpse of the amazing clarity this project is bringing to our beloved episodes.

Watch the trailer below, and if you’ve already seen the first part (which is the same as the first teaser) skip ahead to the 1:19 mark for new footage. The first bit of new footage shows a side-by-side of the original “Encounter at Farpoint” jellyfish and the new remastered scene.

The sampler set “The Next Level,” containing “Encounter at Farpoint,” “Sins of the Father,” and “The Inner Light,” is now available for pre-order from Amazon with a release date of January 31, 2012. It looks like we are all in for hi-def treat!

(Video posted to YouTube by TrekCore.)