Classic Doctor Who Coming to Blu-ray?
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There seem to be a mysterious Blu-ray set that keeps showing up, then disappearing, in per-order listings all over the internet. Are we about to start getting season sets of Classic Doctor Who on Blu-ray? Let's see what we know so far...
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David Hinkle You can fit about 50 SD quality episode on a single Blu-ray. There are 20 episodes in this season to fill the same space. Meaning they could have an even higher bitrate so.it will look fine.
David Hinkle Yes
David Hinkle Pretty sure that's the idea. This release is testing the waters.
Yep, October definitely makes more sense. Plus if it was happening in March, we would have heard a lot more info about it by now.
@Zaranyzerak New extras! Yahoo!
As someone who only has maybe 1/3 of the Classic Who DVD range, this is something I'm hugely up for. Much as I love the great artwork on the front of the cases, the fact of the matter is that individual stories just take up waaaaaay too much space on the shelf. Presumably, a Blu-ray boxset of each season would compact the space required for them all. Not only that, but if anyone is good at HD upconverts, it's the BBC. Series 1-4 of NuWho on Blu-ray look absolutely superb despite their SD origins, and I seem to recall the studio segments of Shada looking pretty great too. However, I would hope that all of the releases would retain all of their special features, because that's probably one of the best aspects about individual story releases: every serial gets treated with so much love and respect, packing absolutely every disc with all the facts, stories, interviews, documentaries and easter eggs you could ever want. I really, really hope that this is genuine. The future could be very exciting.
Another format of these episodes could be shown in is SD on BD where a single Blu Ray disc could contain around 50 Standard Def episodes thereby reducing the amount of Blu Ray Discs that are needed in the set.
This is what I hope they do
I'm hoping for this as well. Some anime distributors have been doing the same thing.
25 gb on single ;layer 50gb dubble layer
Nice to hear. P.S. Don't know if I did, but if I didn't, thank you for your earlier video informing Whovians of the original series DVDs going out of print. Thanks to you I was able to get most of them before prices skyrocketed on them. There were a few I thankfully already had, but a lot I didn't have. But after watching your video, on each of payday, I bought a few Doctor Who DVDs. I only had to pay extra on a few that went out of print before I could buy them, but most I managed to get before prices soured. So thank you so much, for if it hadn't been for you, I would have never known about it, and many Doctor Who stories I would have never been able to get on DVD. Thanks again.
This is great news. I was not aware of this. I hope it's going to happen in the UK too. Having sold all my classic doctor who DVDs this would be great to get all the full seasons in Blu-ray. Great channel. Have subbed.
Well it'd be nice to just get season releases at all. Even on DVD, it's mostly one or two stories per release. The obvious exceptions being The Key to Time (season 16) and The Trial of a Time Lord (season 23).
Yes it getting a release in Region B as a 6-Disc Set of The Collection: Season 12
Steve Worman Coming out June 2018 in the UK.
When I saw this I immediately knew that the term "Up-conversion" was coming. ;) Yes it seems that October is the likely North American date and possibly March for Australia, but you see in the UK, there is no plans to release the Tom Baker seasons as season sets, but then, that just might be arranged by BBC Worldwide for it's foreign audience, which is a possibility. Hopefully they'll just stick the stories and extras straight from the DVD's and onto Blu-ray discs. They should actually hold quite a few stories and extras, but again we'll see. Though I do thank you for praising our accurate date system as well as our PAL picture format. :)
Also consider the waters have been tested (in the UK at least) with an upcovrted version of Paul McGann's adventure on blu ray, but perhaps more relevantly with the recent release of 'Shada' on blu ray (which combines rescanned HD location footage on film with upconverted studio scenes). Bear in mind also that besides the NTSC/PAL differences, even in PAL land the blu rays would still be an improvement over the DVDs thanks to less compressed video and lossless audio. All in all, there are compelling reasons why this might actually be happening....
It seems the BBC has started doing this since, I have had a look on HMV (UK) online for red dwarf and they have pre orders for series 1-8 on blu ray. No clue way since that was 100% on SD video. I need to look for a pre order listing in the UK for classic Doctor Who
If you ever get a chance could you do a region 1 (north america) buyers guide for Doctor Who Blurays? I am buying all the classic collections as they come out but modern Who really confuses me with so many specials and anniversary releases and I have no idea what is and is not included on the individual season sets or the complete (doctor) sets. Also as far as classic Who should I buy the animated recreation blurays or will those eventually be included in the season sets or stuff like the Adventures in time and space bluray? Then throw in the region free blurays that are not available as region A releases like the TV movie bluray and the bluray for Shada it all gets a little confusing. I know some of it would be guess work when it comes to what will or wont be on future releases but I would love to hear your take on it. Thanks and keep up the great work
Not likely, there's not really a huge difference between the releases and everything is clearly numbered. I just get the complete years sets of each Doctor which includes everything of relevance (all episodes and specials in order) and the majority of extras from the individual sets (and often exclusive extras not in the individual sets). Keeps it simple and I don't have to go tracking down a bunch of different sets to get everything. It would be more than I want to do to go into which releases are region free and such, especially when the major releases are released in North America anyway, so it would be redundant. I just cover that when I pick one of them up, like the animated reconstruction Blu-rays. I would only really go into that with a special release that is exclusive to the U.S. or U.K. markets.
Speaking of the Movie Blu-ray, I have no plans to get that as it still uses the same PAL sped-up master that the DVD used for its source instead of the correct NTSC speed master (which could have easily been done for Blu-ray, converting without affecting the speed/pitch by putting it at 24 or 30fps). I'm just sticking with the DVD of that, as the Blu-ray is just an upscale anyway. and since it was originally mastered on NTSC broadcast SD video, it isn't much (if any) of a quality upgrade. Really pointless, incredibly lazy release imo. Nowhere near the effort put in with the Classic Series Blu-rays, which are superb.
@@zaranyzerak thanks for the warning about the Blu-ray for the TV movie. Hopefully we get a decent release at some point. Trying to find information on some of these Blu-ray’s before buying them has been a pain. Especially when I am about 7 years behind on New Who. Your videos have been a big help. Thank you for your thoughts
Will the UK be getting this I wonder if it's anything like the complete Matt Smith and David Tennant blu ray box sets then I imagine we're going to get them in a few years time. Also will they include all of the special features that the DVDs included and I wonder if they're going to put some new ones in there.
I see DVD's (NOT Blu-Ray) in the shelf behind you... where can I buy them?
Sadly the vast majority of them are out of print now, but you can still find quite a few of them on amazon and ebay. Well worth getting, I've never seen a TV series get such royal treatment. Every story has piles of extras, and they did some amazing work remastering the old episodes. My set is the Region 1 NTSC releases, the Region 2 releases are still widely available but of course you need to be able to play Region 2/PAL DVDs.
He was referring to the main collection of the classic series.
Couldn't care less about the Matt Smith stuff, b/c I have A=>Z Prime. I am talking about the original, classic series.
Would any potential US release also have to be pitch corrected and slowed down because the format will inevitably be 1080p/60? I would have thought any optimal release of Dr Who on bluray would need to be 1080i/50 and probably will be for a UK release. A US 1080i/50 release in the US is surely unlikely because of lack of compatibility with US TV's?
No, for some reason going from PAL to NTSC requires no pitch/speed adjustments, it is able to convert evenly. It's only going form 24 or 30fps to PAL that you get the "speedup" issue. So they could convert from 1080i/50 to 1080i/60 without compromising or altering the pitch.
Yea! Thanks Sean! I was wondering if it would come back to North America. 😃
The upside is even if they don't port over all of the extra's, a lot of people will get rid of the dvd's to consolidate space which would make the prices (hopefully) go down. Then, collectors who want the stories for the extra's would be able to finish their collections much cheaper. And hopefully they put the Matt Smith years set back in print.
I’m so happy about this happening! Set a joy to know that spearhead from space won’t be my only owned classic episode!
It will definitely make it easier for Whovians looking to get into Classic Who to build a collection!
Kinda hoping the UK get a release. I know America/Canada releases do seem to be fading out but It would definitely save shelf space with these SD versions put on BD.
The feb/march dates are probably for the UK release and the oct release for us mostly the country of origin gets the release first.
Saved me typing this
Yes but that's the old schedule they're closer together now.
Except Shada...because I don't know.
except that no UK sites have it for pre-order in march 2018,don't think we in the uk will even get it
the only site that has it on order for the uk is Wow HD which only sell imported dvds and blu rays from the states ,so still no listings yet for a UK version
Don’t forget that Spearheaded From Space is already out on Blu Ray. Region A and B. Since the serial was entirely shot on 16mm.
Yep, I've owned it since it was released. It looks fantastic! And is of course the only classic Who that can be 100% HD throughout due to being shot entirely on film.
I think it’s mainly marketed at newish whovians who are used to buying season box sets of other sci fi shows as well as the New Who seasons.
It would most likely be cost effective for the consumer to have a season set rather than buying them individually, especially if you don’t have the shelf space.
I just hope it doesn’t take years to release them like Fox has been doing with The Simpsons.
Awesome video & content as ever Sean :) keep up the stellar work as always!.
I've long wanted season sets. Wonderful news.
i have every doctor who on DVD from an unearthly child to twice upon a time. purchased from the UK and in region 2. had to get a region free DVD player to play them all. but they are all awesome. if they go on blu-ray...might have to get them again.
Are you doing a review of the Boxset?
David Callinicos When I get it, yes.
look at other DVD release dates on those websites and you'll see the format they use. If they show 12/19/2018 as a date for some other dvd release that will tell you the format they use. Unless you think there are 19 months in a year
I don't know if anyone else here has seen the Sarah Jane Adventures series 4 blu-ray set (don't know if it's available in the States - or if the UK version that I'm talking about is Region free) - anyway, it has a rather lovely special feature - the whole of Pyramids Of Mars, as a tribute to Lis Sladen - it was not long after she'd died, so this has been available for several years now. Anyway, the point is that the picture quality is MUCH better than the old DVD. It's much sharper, less grainy, just a noticeably much nicer picture. Now I'm no tech head so I'm no expert on upconverting and all that but I do know that theres a lot more room on a blu-ray disc and that if you try and cram too much stuff on a DVD then the quality suffers - so maybe thats why it looks so much better (it could also be partly because Pyramids was quite an early DVD release - the later ones released do tend to look better - techiques of restoration etc improved over the years I guess). Anyway, it could hopefully mean, if this is really happening , that blu-ray releases of Classic Who COULD look a lot better than the DVD releases, even though (except for some of the film location material) they won't be true high def.
It's out in June in both the UK and US. ;)
My god this would be awesome
I know it wasn't good. I know it had flaws. But, he's my favorite Doctor, so I would like a season 22 set.
You'll get no shortage of love for 6 from me! There's some great stories in Season 22 - Vengance on Varos, Mark of The Rani, Revelation of the Daleks... Colin really got shafted, he should have had a few more seasons to properly develop his Doctor's arc the way they wanted to. But hey, at least he's since been able to do so with the Big Finish audios! At last we can see (well, hear) how amazing his Doctor truly was and would have been had he continued.
I would love a The Complete Colin Baker Years set! Maybe a The Complete Peter Davision Years one too!
I live in Australia and just checked sanity after seeing this video and the Tom baker set isn't there anymore? So is it real?
It's real, the pre-order listings keep appearing and disappearing, I'm guessing because the release date is in October and it hasn't been "officially" announced yet. The Best Buy listing keeps coming and going too.
Hmmm, starting to think about collecting the classic series, at least a few of my most fave doctors. Wondering if I should wait to see if the blu-ray sets will come out. Or I just double dip.
Well being in Jolly Olde England, it would be comparatively easy for you to build a DVD collection versus us poor saps over in Region 1 land. I think the DVDs are worth tracking down for the extras alone. It remains to be seen how many of those, if any, will be ported to the Blu-ray sets...
Frame Rates is one difference. They never did or anytime afterwards convert the 30fps video footage to 24fps film footage
Hey, Zaranyzerak! Have you heard about this new scanning for restoration technique the BBC have come up with? It means they don't have to unspool the film prints to get the data off them. Could be useful if they find anymore Classic Doctor Who episodes which have been stored in poor conditions that are breaking apart and will fall apart if they try to run them as a reel. www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2017-12-morecambe-wise-video-film-archive-restoration
And the actual date was revealed to be June 19, 2018... and I just bought it
Maybe they are doing each season by Doctor because some seasons have more then one Doctor since session four has the last two First Doctor stories and the first seven of the Second Doctor just incase they develop a plan for those Doctor releases. Or maybe it just seems easier to release season by Doctor.
Yeah, that would make sense. For people who might want to collect by Doctor, or just collect their fave Doctors.
Do you think they’ll ever release seasons two, three and four on New WHO on Blu-ray? I sold all my DVDs of those seasons because Blu-ray.com had them listed but they were never released. And now I have a big gap in my collection.
Well, they actually kinda did! Shortly after the Region A releases were dropped from the schedule, the BBC quietly released Region Free Blu-rays of those 3 seasons. They go for about 75 dollars per season on amazon, which is about what we pay for seasons on Blu anyway, so.... Go get 'em! Just pay attention to the region coding (amazon lists it in their descriptions), as there's Region B versions that look identical. I'm planning to grab them soon myself.
Actually they are but in December 2018, unconfirmed.
I made a petition so hopefully with enough demand they're release the Region A/1 versions separately: www.change.org/p/bbc-worldwide-bbc-worldwide-americas-to-release-doctor-who-series-2-4-on-blu-ray
They’d better have all the special features from the DVDs.
Red Dwarf Series 1-5 are due to be released on BluRay in the UK 26/2/18 after many delays.Like classic Who not made in HD
Yep, Doug Naylor originally killed the project because he wasn't happy with the quality of the upconversion. But it looks like it's actually happening now.
Delayed yet again 'til 1/10/18 A boxset of Series 1-8 "remastered in high definition"
Oh my god. A dream come true.
This is great for collectors who have nothing, like me, but these will still be upscales and not true blue-ray.
Release date is now 19th June
Kindof on the fence about picking this up, but leaning towards a pass. Primarily because I'm not so much a fan of "Classic Who" as "New Who", but I'll admit I've never seen a Tom Baker episode. I only hear good things about him, and the fact that they've chosen his episodes to be the first SD classic episodes on Blu-ray is a good sign. I just worry that if I purchase Series 12, and then BBC decides to abandon physical media as they've abandoned their physical store, I'll never get to complete the series on Blu-ray. And just having "Series 12" on my shelf is weird. :p
Then there's the issue of cost. £30-£40 is a bit much for me to spend on the first series of a classic show I may not enjoy. But if I do enjoy it, I've kindof got to commit to the rest of the classic series they bring out. I actually sold off my Spearhead from Space Blu-ray in the end as it just wasn't the style of Doctor Who that I enjoy. Are Tom Bakers' series in a similar style to those?
This set looks great but I don't understand why they used the new series logo on the cover
I guess to keep it more "unified" with the current show. but yeah, I would have preferred the Diamond logo myself.
This better either release in the UK or be region free so I can get it imported. I'm sick of the BBC giving much better stuff to the US. eg cinema showings of Xmas episodes and some Classic episodes.
Interesting. I'm guessing if this is indeed true, it's probably happening because 2018 is the show's 55th anniversary. Agree?
Considering that Classic Series Doctor Who is standard definition I can’t see the benefit of this. I’d love it if we’d get Doctor Who on HD but I can’t see it looking any better than it does already.
It's not necessarily about it looking HD, there are plenty of reason to put SD content on Blu-ray. First, the convenience of Season sets. Second, the higher capacity of Blu-ray means fewer discs. If left SD, an entire season could literally fit on one disc and look just as good as the DVD version. Third, the DVDs are largely out of print in North America and this provides an opportunity for newer fans to get the classic series much more affordably. So lots of reason.
S19 on Bluray 19/11/18 in the UK
Would be cool to have
Hey Zaranyzerak! Im from Australia and I can confirm that our release day for dvds/blu rays are indeed Wednesday :) strange how you guys date things by month/day/year ahaha Anyways can't wait for you to see blade runner 2049, love to hear your thoughts on it probably best movie of last year in my opinion!
Ah-ha! I was right! Thanks for the confirmation. :) I plan to pick up the Blu-ray of Blade Runner 2049 this week, been dying to see it!
Are you going to purchase the Peter Capaldi years blu-ray set that is now on pre-order on Amazon?
Yep, definitely!
I never liked the Moffat era of Dr. Who... I miss the days of the 9 and 10th doctor
Oldcpv 3 Ok... While the Moffat era was very up and down there were still a lot of gems that came out of it for both Matt Smith and Peter Capaldi's Doctors.
Yeah, I think New Who in general has had its ups and downs. I think people are way too hard on the Moffatt era, he has at least tried to do some interesting/different things, such as really diving into how complicated things can get with criss-crossing timelines and such. Which makes it more challenging for the viewer to keep up/sort everything out, but that's all part of the fun to me. The Davies era, while it had some stellar moments, it dove too often into "fan wank" territory for my taste, with a lot of the season enders just being The Daleks, Cybermen and Master showing up for a massive crossover monsterfest that felt like fanfic gone mad. Loved 10's sendoff though.
Well glad if its true Tom Baker is the only ones I want not paying dumb ass prices on out of print dvds glad I waited bring on The Blurays
October also fits with the return of the series so it could be a big Doctor Who fall.
Ah-ha! Yes, that's another excellent point!
Glad to see this is coming :) XD
There are classic doctor who Box sets for , i think the last 6 seasons( all episodes of the fith and sixed doctor ) , but they are in german xD.
Joseph May Not quite. The box sets are for the Sixth and Seventh Doctor. And German is just a language option. You can still watch it all in English.
The 7th Doctor one even has the extended Silver Nemesis our glorious DVD producers couldn't be arsed to put on...
I don't see this happening any time soon unless they make a blu-ray release worth the money by including more extras.
That's just it though, it IS happening. We just don't know the details.
@Zaranyzerak If they just release it on blu-ray without anything extra I'm not sure what the incentive will be to buy them. Unless they apply the new video quality techniques the Red Dwarf blu-rays are currently undergoing I don't know what other reason they'll have release the original series. I do hope they add extra content. Some of the DVDs lacked retrospective docs.
There will be something, no Doctor Who release has been barebones since the days of VHS. It may be new features, it may be stuff ported over from the DVDs. We don't know. All we know for certain is this is a thing that is happening. I would assume they'll use the same or similar techniques to what they're doing with the Red Dwarf Blu-rays. The upconverted episodes of the new show looked terrific, so I'm confident this will too.
Check that, Web of Fear and Enemy of the World were barebones, but that's just because they wanted to rush them out when they were discovered. But those are the exception, not the rule.
@Zaranyzerak I very much doubt they wouldn't port over the existing extras but they need to include new extras for it to be worthwhile otherwise what's the point?
Wouldn't it be smarter to just check out other release dates on those sites (ones that we know for sure, like big blockbusters) to see what format they use? :) Here, Thor Ragnarok comes out 03/06/2018 on FYE www.fye.com/thor--ragnarok-amg_video.v619009.html#q=thor&lang=default&start=1 That's March. So the Doctor Who is October. Mystery solved.
Great video 😁
And Lego Dr who the video game
spearhead from space is on bluray
Yes I know, I own it. It was the exception at the time because it was the only classic story shot entirely on film and the only story that could be given the full HD treatment. This is different, as it is full season sets of classic episodes on Blu-ray, regardless of whether or not they were shot on film.
I can see Dr who stories shot on film coming to BluRay, spearhead from space has done, but to upscale analogue PAL videotape copies might be a waste of time as it may not benefit the low quality
Nonsense. It's a very noticeable improvement in quality and colour balance, especially for those of us in NTSC land.
Zaranyzerak it's also the excessive cost, first upscaling the composite PAL video to 4K, then you need colour correction in standards conversion from PAL to NTSC, removal of standards conversion defects, and audio pitch correction so it doesn't run slurred or slower than it should do.
They've declined to release other classic stories on BluRay except a 50th anniversary digitally restored rerelease of the Five Doctors for the UK market owing to cost and only thus releasing Spearhead From Space on BluRay because it was on the best source material to begin with using 35mm film (there was a technician strike which meant that story could only be shot on film and it was).
anthony perkins Well, the set was released last month so you can see for yourself how it looks, or look up some screenshots. I plan to get it for the improved quality over my NTSC DVDs, and for the wealth of extras.
anthony perkins The point is, it's done and is out now. So your arguments against them doing it are moot as they have already done it, and are doing other SD shows such as Red Dwarf as well.
anthony perkins Also PAL to NTSC does not affect the speed or pitch, that only happens going the other way. I don't think the cost is quite as high as you're assuming. As the BBC was quite Keen to do the conversion, not to mention put together quite a robust extras package for this set. Instead of jumping to conclusions and condemning something you haven't even seen, how about actually take a look at it.
I don’t think I’d get this, I already own the DVD so seems pointless
The Private Archive yeah but seasons 1-6 might not release and it’ll be an incomplete collection - I know it won’t bug some but it would me
I'm sure they will, they'll probably just leave them to the end of the line to give them time to catch up with animations of the missing episodes (or if any turn up in the meantime). Also a number of archive TV shows with missing eps have still released "complete" (as much as can be) box sets, such as Callan.
codyw1 I hope that’s true, but that’s like 80+ episodes to animate
It's not HD it's upscaled SD
If they release Tom Bakers Dr who on Blu Ray what if they going to add Shada because they cancelled due to the strike from the BBC
Shada is available on Blu-ray now, Region Free. They finished it by animating the incomplete parts and having the original cast do the voices for their characters. They also have all the original film elements for the location footage. So the only parts that are upconverted in that case are the studio sequences. The rest is all true HD.
But how about Shada on the DVD they have also animation just like they did on the Blu ray?
Of course, the new DVD edition is exactly the same for the episodes, just not in HD obviously.
It would be series 1 not season 1
Nope, Classic series has always referred to them as Seasons.
Can't happen as Doctor Who was shot on video. Upscaling wont be worth it as they aren't shot digitally like Series 1-4.
Wrong. Can happen and is happening. The BBC is upscaling a lot of their SD content and putting it on Blu-ray now. Red Dwarf is another example, with Series 1-8 all being upscaled for Blu-ray as we speak, pre-orders already available. Whether SD is shot on analog or digital makes no difference to the potential quality of upscaling. SD is SD. Just because it won't be true HD doesn't mean there isn't plenty of good reasons to do it. Save on shelf space, fewer discs, higher bitrate than DVD, etc.
And actually it wasn't only shot on video. Location footage was shot on film up until 1986, and the original film elements still exist for many of those stories, already scanned in HD by the Restoration Team when they remastered everything for the DVDs. The recent Blu-ray release of Shada is a perfect example of this, with all of the location footage in HD, the animated inserts in HD, and the only upscaled parts being the studio footage which was shot on SD video.
Zaranyzerak it's possible pointless. Very few classics even hold up in SD and many have had extensive restoration work done to them. They aren't clean enough to be edit from an upscale like the digital series 1-4.
Zaranyzerak also they won't bother rescanning the film footage. This is the money grabbing BBC we're talking about. They will just upscale the digital SD masters like they did with the 1996 pilot and Life on Mars Series 1.
Read what I said. They have already rescanned all the existing location film footage when they did the original remasters. All that exists is already scanned in HD. All of the 70's - onward are plenty "clean enough" to be upscaled. The 1996 pilot., while shot on film, was edited and mastered on SD video with all the visual effects in SD. So the only complete version that exists or ever existed is the SD broadcast master. This was common practice in the 90's. The biggest issue with that release is they used the PAL converted version with a 4% speedup in the audio/framerate instead of doing a proper transfer from the original NTSC master.
Zaranyzerak but they won't want to re-edit the episodes with new HD mastersof location footage. Just like with the 1996 pilot they will just upscale the existing episodes as is. I would be shocked if they released entire seasons with true HD scenes from location shot film footage. Well get a Life on Mars or Doctor Who The Movie style upscale of the SD digital master and it won't even get the small benefit they recovered from that because at least with those they are upscaled of SD masters that were entirely shot on film.
Am keep all my old doctor who on dvd not go to blu Ray at all
A complete waste of money and a cynical rip off of fans, just like the pointless Blu-ray releases of Nu-Who Series 1-4. Up until "Planet of the Dead" in 2009, Who was a Standard Definition video production (Analogue and later Digital SD). Yes the location work was shot on film (35mm until 1965, 16mm from then til 1987) and without getting too detailed, while acknowledging the difference between the technologies, 16mm resolves very nicely at 2K.So a 2K scan of "Spearhead From Space", the only classic Who story shot completely on film, looks beautiful on Blu-ray as did an earlier 2K scan for its second DVD release.Anyway, the film footage that made up the location sequences for many stories, was junked, once it was telecined into the original episodes. So you wouldn't have access to it, to rescan at 2K. Even if you do have access, you still have the problem of the SD interlace video PAL 576 x 768 or NTSC 480 x 768. Folks, if you have a Blu-ray player or a DVD player the connects via HDMI (All BDs do, but DVD players vary) , use it.In the players setup menu select Video Out, HDMI Video, there are a number of names. You will see a list of video resolutions with Auto also listed. Select 1080p. If you own a digital flatscreen TV produced after 2008, it will accept the 1080p signal, even if the screen is a 720p set or you can set the output to 720p.This activates the player's upscaling function and standard defintion content is rescaled to make best use of your displays' higher screen resolution. Do not throw out your existing Who DVDs. I respect the talent and skill of film and video specialists, but I'm yet to see upconverted SD sources on Blu-ray that look any better than their high quality DVD cousins. Save your cash folks.
Look at my recent 60fps MMC Retro videos if you want an idea of just how good SD can look when properly upconverted to 1080p. If I can make my consumer grade stuff look that good, I'm confident that the BBC can do a nice job with these. I have the Series 1 Blu-ray of the new series and it looks noticeably better than its DVD counterpart. Not a night and day difference, but a definite improvement. Also, this isn't just about picture quality but also accessibility and convenience. In North America, nearly the entire DVD range is out of print and prohibitively expensive on the aftermarket. This would provide an affordable alternative for those looking to get the classic series in some form, not to mention save a ton of shelf space. There are plenty of perfectly valid reasons to have a release like this. And for the stories that DO have the location film still available, there will be a huge difference in picture quality for those shots. The recent Blu-ray release of Shada is a perfect example of this.
Zaranyzerak As a collector of several decades, I've been through a variety of formats. As a cinephile, multiregional machines have always been a must and the U.S. provides a DVD catalogue that is approx five times that of Australia. Hence I own many R1 NTSC DVDs. If the masters were created using a 2K scan. The results are fantastic, when upscaled by my players and run through both my 1080p Plasma and a 1080p projector. My Who DVDs also look fantastic when upscaled. I see no point in paying for something I already have. My heart goes out to North American Whovians. I can only hope that the BBC is negotiatinga new DVD distribution deal. Standards conversion has come along leaps and bounds in the last few decades. I doubt that most people could tell the difference. Once a standard definition source, always a standard definition source. You cannot convert SD to HD. It's just upconversion, rescaling the existing image data. Grab a multiregional player, check that your panel can accept a PAL 50Hz signal. If so, grab the UK DVDs.
I just do not see the point in double dipping for no empircal gain. Each to there own. All the best. Great videos.
A new DVD distribution deal seems highly unlikely at this point, as the DVDs have been going systematically out of print since 2013 with no sign of a re-release. And you are quite correct, SD is always SD no matter what. A common misconception with upconversion that I see far too often is that it "magically" makes SD content HD. It doesn't. What it can give you on Blu-ray vs DVD is a nice boost in bitrate, though. While you're also quite right in that in a PAL area there wouldn't be much noticeable improvement, here in NTSC land there most definitely would be. As I said in the video, NTSC's colour is notoriously unstable compared to PAL, then there's PAL's additional 100 lines of resolution over NTSC. So a Blu-ray upconverted from a PAL source would provide a noticeable boost in resolution and colour timing versus an NTSC DVD or a RSC-capable DVD player converting a PAL DVD to NTSC on the fly. It appears this is mainly being aimed at the North American market anyway, as the DVDs are still readily available (and much less expensive) across the pond.
this means the doctor who guide wasted his money on the web planet dvd
Huh?
Its not that hard to do
No, basic upconversion is easy but it is a lot of work to do it properly so it actually looks good.
SD doent look good on UHD led tvs