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Bingowings said:

I watch many of my Doctor Who VHS tapes in preference to the DVDs because it reminds me more of the initial broadcast.

We were in a poor reception area and suffered ghosting etc.

The DVDs are arguably better quality than anyone ever saw on any television which means it's probably pointless releasing them on blu-ray.

Star Wars is a different cup of protoplasm though.

Actually, to veer off-topic, that's not true. In fact, classic Doctor Who is in EXACTLY the same situation as Star Wars, which is why your VHSs are more representative of what was originally on-screen.

The "Restoration Team" have tampered and fiddled with many DW DVDs, arguing they are fulfilling 2entertain's remit to improve the old source material in every way. In reality, this means arbitrary, inconsistent results. Examples of this include (but are in NO way limited to)

-darkening the image in Warriors of the Deep to reduce the glare of the white sets

-darkening the image in episode 2 of the Chase, where a scene started at night, cut to a day shot (!), then cut back to night

-adding a CGI spanner in The Pirate Planet, and having it move on-screen in a different manner than the original show

-Freezing the reflection of Patirck Troughton in the time rotor (before he appears in the TARDIS) in the Three Doctors

-removing string holding the TARDIS spinning in the Time Monster

-paintboxing out a moving van incompletely in the Dalek Invasion of Earth

-cleaning up the recreated time scoop effect and removing jump cuts in the "as televised" version of Five Doctors special edition