Paramount+ will run PICARD season 3 in many markets outside the US

[James Cole]

This is via Terry Matalas and The Hollywood Reporter

“The third and final season of Star Trek: Picard will premiere day and date with the U.S. in Latin America on Feb. 16 and on Feb. 17 in the U.K., Australia, Italy, France, Germany, Austria and Switzerland, with South Korea to premiere at a later date,” Paramount said on Wednesday. “Previous seasons of Star Trek: Picard will also be available in English-speaking regions starting this February. All seasons of Star Trek: Lower Decks are currently available to stream on Paramount+ in Latin America and will be available later this year across all Paramount+ markets outside Canada.”

PICARD season 3 will still be on Prime Video outside US and Canada.

Could be useful to people who have Paramount+ in certain countries but not Prime Video. Prime Video also is very good at geo-blocking, so should a US resident be abroad during this time with P+, you'd likely be able to access the show as well.

 

[Anduinel]

Interesting. TPTB are really placing a lot of faith in the appeal of a TNG reunion. LDS also going international is a little surprising; I love the show, but it's a kind of a niche offering compared to something like SNW.

 

[RuleofAcuisition17]

Thank goodness. I was worried we'd be a few weeks behind here in the UK.

Also, seems a bit silly to delay us by a day, but then it seems to be a thing here to stop people bunking too much off of work to watch their favourite show, play their favourite game etc.

 

[Haggis and tatties]

Until PPlus do 4k here in the UK i won't be touching them, i mean 1080p only from this streaming service in 2023 is a joke.

 

[Richard S. Ta]

Interesting. TPTB are really placing a lot of faith in the appeal of a TNG reunion. LDS also going international is a little surprising; I love the show, but it's a kind of a niche offering compared to something like SNW.

Star Trek is niche by nature.

 

[donners22]

Ugh, this headline worried me, but it sounds like it will be on both P+ and Amazon. I would have been most upset if they had repeated their mistake of pulling Disco S4 from Netflix at short notice.

LDS also going international is a little surprising; I love the show, but it's a kind of a niche offering compared to something like SNW.

It has been "international " from the outset on Amazon, which I'd have thought was a bigger platform than P+.

 

[James Cole]

Until PPlus do 4k here in the UK i won't be touching them, i mean 1080p only from this streaming service in 2023 is a joke.

Does Prime Video have PICARD season 2 in 4K?

 

[Haggis and tatties]

^^^No, still only 1080p for both srason 1-2 last time i looked, but it was more the fact that here in the UK PP only offers 1080p, so no 4k or HDR at all, which you would think would be a min standard for a streaming service from such a big studio.

 

[Tuskin38]

Picard and Discovery weren't made for 4k. The only series intended for 4k right now is SNW.

 

[tomalak301]

Picard and Discovery weren't made for 4k. The only series intended for 4k right now is SNW.

Why can't they adapt with the times though? Enterprise did.

 

[Tuskin38]

Why can't they adapt with the times though? Enterprise did.

maybe the new seasons will be 4k because of SNW

 

[tomalak301]

maybe the new seasons will be 4k because of SNW

That's what I was thinking. The technology is there and don't they film the series around the same area?

 

[James Cole]

That's what I was thinking. The technology is there and don't they film the series around the same area?

This actually comes up a lot on the Blu-ray forum. They're almost as obsessed with picture quality as Star Trek fans are with canon.

The digital cameras used in filming the episodes are likely at 4K resolution or better (granted the top and bottom is cropped, so it could be like 3.4K). The issue is visual effects in post production, where a digital intermediate master is produced. Many of the big budget MCU films are only mastered at 2K because of the costs of visual effects at 4K, and the three Abramsverse films are all 4K upconverts. And this is for massive cinema screens. Almost every 4K blu-ray review begins with if it is sourced from a native 4K or upconverted 2K DI. Often a film from say the 1980s or 1990s will look better, as it started off as 35mm film.

So to go into much greater detail than 2K would cost more money and take more time to produce. It's easier to just do the greater color range of Dolby Vision on a 1080p stream. It would be nice if PICARD season 3 is in 4K, but as its production overlapped with season 2, I doubt it.

 

[Wouter]

The digital cameras used in filming the episodes are likely at 4K resolution or better (granted the top and bottom is cropped, so it could be like 3.4K). The issue is visual effects in post production, where a digital intermediate master is produced. Many of the big budget MCU films are only mastered at 2K because of the costs of visual effects at 4K, and the three Abramsverse films are all 4K upconverts. And this is for massive cinema screens. Almost every 4K blu-ray review begins with if it is sourced from a native 4K or upconverted 2K DI. Often a film from say the 1980s or 1990s will look better, as it started off as 35mm film.

For similar reasons, I think it also doesn't make sense to release the animated series in 4K as they are probably made in 1080p and thus no additional detail could be gained (and the HDR aspects are probably also less interesting for the cartoons, compared to a live action series if it has the necessary hardware and decent editing to actually make sensible use of HDR).

But that's not bad, true 1080p already looks very, very good even on a 4K screen.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Does this mean "Children of Mars" Short Trek will be on Paramount+ too?

 

[SpocksOddSocks]

Until PPlus do 4k here in the UK i won't be touching them, i mean 1080p only from this streaming service in 2023 is a joke.

I thought the same thing, but back on Black Friday, they offered a 12 month subscription at half price (about £32). As such it seemed worth a shot based on what was coming, as long as I remeber to cancel at renewal time. Otherwise, the service really need to up it's content considerably.

Does this mean "Children of Mars" Short Trek will be on Paramount+ too?

So far as I can find, none of the short treks are on there in UK. If they are they're well hidden.

 

[F. King Daniel]

So far as I can find, none of the short treks are on there in UK. If they are they're well hidden.

I wonder why?

 

[SpocksOddSocks]

I wonder why?

No idea, but I have looked for them. Animated Series also missing, as well as Into Darkness and Beyond.

When I first subscribed, there was also an episode of Disco S4 missing too (the mid-season finale, in fact), but it turned up a few days later.

I was also disappointed there was no Twilight Zone. Wasn't the new series of that a Paramount+ in the US?

 

[Harpsichord]

I was also disappointed there was no Twilight Zone. Wasn't the new series of that a Paramount+ in the US?

Jordan Peele's Twilight Zone was one of the shows P+ removed recently to cut costs.

 

[JoseNoodles]

Well that sucks I was looking forward to watching Season 2 of Peele's Twilight Zone when I had time.