I have the NTSC two disc release. Seems cheap or lazy to use a heavily compressed version as an uncompressed master for the recon must be somewhere?
Hard to say.
More importantly, Derek Handley offered to allow them to use his new Power of the Daleks telesnap recon in the set and it was either too late to do so, or they did not want to. I think inclusion of the BBC recon was just a simple bonus and not a main attraction. There’s nothing fancy about it, and even if they didn’t use Derek’s, it would have only taken a day or two to simply build another one out of the higher quality, cleaned up telesnaps they now have.
btw: In case you’re not aware, Derek is the guy from Loose Cannon. They’ve used his recons on for Marco Polo and Galaxy 4 in the DVD range before, as well as in the Out of the Unknown DVDs.