links for 2007-05-05 : Extenuating Circumstances

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Review – Catan // Xbox 360 /// Eurogamer

“First things first: some of us still have normal-person televisions. Catan is yet another game that completely ignores the fact that some people will need to play it on SDTV. Much of the text is tiny. Worse, it’s tiny for no particular reason at all. Dou

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“Tomorrow Is Yesterday” Tomorrow & The Day After Tomorrow On STAR TREK Remastered!! — Ain’t It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news.

You know, seeing all this Star Trek remastered stuff on AICN is making me really, really want to watch the original series

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Bronwen

The ST:TOS remastering really was a gigantic process; the company was working on it for years. While I enjoy the re-recorded music and obvious new effects, I think the most compelling reason to watch the new version is that every single frame is just brighter, sharper than it was before (we can rebuild it). . . . Not that I have watched the EPK and behind the scenes footage a good hundred times in the last half of the year or anything.
danhon

Sci Fi in the UK are showing the 0.5 remastered version (the one with digital cleanup, not the new effects), but the only one of those that I’ve watched has been City of Forever.

In other news, Doctor Who is still sucking.

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