Speaking of Fox, we’ve also learned that the post facility HTV is involved in the effort to bring
The X-Files TV series to Blu-ray Disc. Which is good in that it’s further confirmation that
The X-Files is coming to Blu-ray (something
we first revealed here in The Rumor Mill back in November)… but it’s bad because we’ve also heard there’s some up-conversion going on of original footage (rather than a full HD upgrade and restoration). As it happens, HTV was the company that did the remastering work on CBS’
Star Trek: The Next Generation – Season Two (which
really wasn’t up to the quality standard set by CBS Digital’s in-house team on
Seasons One or
Three). So draw your own conclusions. Let’s hope that all the series’ dark, gritty goodness isn’t just digitally scrubbed away.
[Editor's Note: I should be clear, it's not a complete upconversion. Like Star Trek, all the original camera negative is being rescanned in high resolution. However the original VFX work was done in low resolution and much of this is simply being upconverted rather than being re-rendered. And any stock footage used – shots of the Hoover Building for example – is being upconverted.]