Doctor Who — Page 77

towne32 said:

ChainsawAsh said:

Hmm. I’d rather they keep them in standard def and cram as many episodes on each BR disc as they can rather than upscale, but okay.

Steve has said the bulk of the costs are in the content licensing rather than the discs, so fewer wouldn’t drop the price really. And apparently the blu-ray disc association doesn’t like it when main features are actually SD.

And it will be worth it where the film exists, plus titles and credits.

Not trying to be too nosy, but where are you hearing that the film stuff is going to be scanned in HD?

Handman said:

towne32 said:

ChainsawAsh said:

Hmm. I’d rather they keep them in standard def and cram as many episodes on each BR disc as they can rather than upscale, but okay.

Steve has said the bulk of the costs are in the content licensing rather than the discs, so fewer wouldn’t drop the price really. And apparently the blu-ray disc association doesn’t like it when main features are actually SD.

And it will be worth it where the film exists, plus titles and credits.

Not trying to be too nosy, but where are you hearing that the film stuff is going to be scanned in HD?

On Gallifreybase, Steve Roberts listed it as one of the reasons to go with blu-ray (again, this was done for the new Shada release as well). But I should emphasize that none of the film survives for season 12, at least as far as is known. The earliest 4th Doctor serial with extant film is Invasion of Time. Then there’s Pirate Planet, (Shada), and Leisure Hive. Then with Season 19, nearly all of the stories have surviving film.

No worries about nosiness. I think at this point everything I know has been stated publicly somewhere.

suspiciouscoffee said:

Do we have any idea when other seasons may release or if there will be any sort of regular schedule to releases? I wouldn’t want to sell off all my discs if some of them never even get to Blu. Also, blu-ray.com lists this as releasing in October. Is the March release UK only?

March is the announcement. June 11th release for the UK. October apparently for the US. The 60i versions are being made from the 50i masters, so no loss in resolution.

No word on overall plan, but I’d like to know too. The press release is tomorrow, but apparently they are waiting to see how sales go before committing.

SilverWook said:

Fox must know where the elements for the tv movie are stored. (If they haven’t been lost.) If the BBC wasn’t so penny pinching the tv movie could get rebuilt in HD.
Hope I can actually play these discs if we get stiffed on a U.S. release.

This has been addressed before by the restoration team. Technically, it’s an ideal candidate as it’s entirely 35mm. But the costs were determined to outscale the potential earnings by “several orders of magnitude”. Plus effects would need to be done or upscaled, etc etc.

They’ve been good about making all the UK releases region free in the last 4 years or so. But this does seem to be coming out in the US. My TV does 50p/50i content, so I think I’ll stick with region B.

The new logo looks better than expected once they change the color. A whole set of these would look great.

SilverWook said:

I have a region free player. Not sure if my tv does 50p/50i.

Might be worth testing out Shada, if that’s something you’re interested in.

On the other hand, I’ve got no idea if they would include that on the Season 17 set resulting in a re-buy.

I don’t like the new logo on the Classic Series. I get that they’re trying to unify the show, but… well, imagine if they tried doing that in 2005.

There’s just some simple elegance to the Pertwee logo.

I hope so.

SilverWook said:

Handman said:

I don’t like the new logo on the Classic Series. I get that they’re trying to unify the show, but… well, imagine if they tried doing that in 2005.

It does say not final, so maybe they will fix that.

Fix it to a classic logo? No. Apparently one of the reasons it wasn’t announced prior to now is that the BBC has made it mandatory to use the new logo on all merchandise.

I wonder if Enemy SE will slip through, or if that’s the reason for its delay. I’m fine with the new logo (with improved color) for a new range, but hopefully the keep this perhaps last DVD consistent, and not just for the ugly roundels reversible cover.

suspiciouscoffee said:

Everything should be unified under this logo.

I remember reading some of the novelizations in the 90s, and had no idea why they had this hideous logo that was outdated even by then. They weren’t 7th Doctor books, and I’d never seen anything of him or the New Adventures at that point.

I wish they’d use the logo used in the season being released for the box art. =/

TM2YC said:
Lucky it’s only temp artwork because they’ve made a spelling mistake on the cover. It’s spelled “S E R I E S 1 2”.

Who says?

I thought the convention when it came to Doctor Who was that everything pre-1989 was “season” and everything post-2005 was “series?”

Tobar said:

ChainsawAsh said:

I thought the convention when it came to Doctor Who was that everything pre-1989 was “season” and everything post-2005 was “series?”

Yes.

Yep. It’s a handy way to refer to a series without spelling out which iteration. And it’s been standard since the 80s, and back to some correspondences during season 2 as well.

None of those pictures refer to the current season as a series, it’s referring to the show as a whole.

Yeah, I’ve never heard classic Who referred to as anything other than “season.”

TM2YC said:

towne32 said:

Genesis of the Daleks – omnibus movie version

I’m in on that alone.

You’ll probably like to hear, then, that Mark Ayres is doing 5.1 mixes for Genesis and Ark in Space.