NOVEMBER 14: We’re back online!

CBS has been very helpful in resolving the issues that have affected the channel over the last few weeks, and have retracted the copyright strikes they issued which caused the YouTube downtime.

We’ll have some more information in the coming weeks, but for now, go watch some of those great Blu-ray comparison videos you’ve been missing!

We were dismayed to learn this morning that our heavily-followed TrekCoreVideo YouTube channel was taken offline due to several new copyright claims against our popular SD-to-HD Star Trek Blu-ray comparison videos.

This unexpected takedown was certainly a surprising turn of events, after we’ve spent so much time working with CBS to spread the word about the Next Generation and Enterprise Blu-ray projects, and have given our best effort to highlight the amazing work by the restoration team at CBS Digital over the last three years.

CBS has been aware of our comparison videos and has offered their support by sharing and publicizing them through their own social media channels — something that makes this takedown even more surprising.

At present, we expect our video services to be offline for at least the next several weeks as we investigate this situation, and we will continue to update our readers on this ongoing issue as possible.

We’ve highlighted some of our favorite comments below; we encourage you to share your feedback as well!