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Post by simonashby on Oct 19, 2012 23:20:54 GMT
And this episode could just as easily have been released on The Reign of Terror or The Tenth Planet, neither of which had previously been released on DVD. DVDs have set budgets. It's the way it works for any DVD. ROT has costly animation, as TP [presumably] does also.
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Post by simonashby on Oct 19, 2012 22:58:43 GMT
What other Hartnell stories are there left that don't involve animations? They're all out now aren't they? Very good point.
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Post by simonashby on Oct 19, 2012 19:39:50 GMT
Wind up or too much time on hands? My guess is both.
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Post by simonashby on Oct 19, 2012 19:25:52 GMT
Nope. Not at all. I still own the VHS copies, I'm still happy to watch them. Don't see any difference between them and the DVDs. Can I ask something? Are you watching the DVD with a bag over your head at all? You must be if you honestly can't see any difference. Has to be a wind up.
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Post by simonashby on Oct 19, 2012 18:38:18 GMT
It's more than a "little" manipulative. I'm a completist collector as far as the original material is concerned, as I think a lot of others are, but I really couldn't care less about any supposed improvement in picture quality which, frankly, I doubt I'd even notice (in fact, as far as the 60s stuff goes, I don't think seeing it in higher definition than the original audience would have does anything but draw attention to flaws that would otherwise go unnoticed) and I don't even watch most of the special features. I would ordinarily not even consider buying this release, but I now feel I'm being forced to just to see one episode which they could just as easily have stuck on a previously unreleased story. And they're counting on that. That is a despicable stunt to pull. Well considering the footage is actually of poorer quality than the original audience would have seen and always will be shows what you know about that. The very point is to ensure it is as close as possible to the original. Sadly some people just set out to be disappointed. Regardless of anything else, moaning about it isn't going to change it. Life goes on, yadda yadda. Anyway... Surely if you're a completest collector, you'd want to have every release? ;D
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Post by simonashby on Oct 19, 2012 0:28:19 GMT
I think its disgusting. Whats next? ANOTHER re-release of Tomb of the Cyberman for Underwater Menace ep 2?. Bbc are taking the piss... It's been over 10 years since The Aztecs was released on DVD. As already stated, the restoration of the episodes can be noticeably improved upon. It's a practical and perfectly reasonable thing to do. Why not present the episodes in the best possible way? There'll always be the people who complain about restorations not being good enough and the others who complain about revisiting them and making a better job of them. In the general scheme of things a re-release is not a biggie now is it?
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Post by simonashby on Aug 3, 2012 13:26:05 GMT
I can't see how having a higher res B/W source is going to improve the colour... Not that there is a 35mm tele-recording anyway...
Very good job though!
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Post by simonashby on Aug 1, 2012 0:39:20 GMT
Don't know if this has already been asked, but are the two episodes of the underwater menace from the same country and if so doesn't that mean the remaining two episodes have a good chance of being out there somewhere?? Episode 3 was already at Enterprises in 1978. Regardless, if they were both from Australia (as the discovered print was) there is no way of telling. It's just like any other episode, we have no idea at all if they exist - the odds are just as equal as anything else.
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Post by simonashby on Jul 20, 2012 11:15:07 GMT
Hello all, my first post on here. I'm not sure which is the right thread for this, didn't want to start a new post so have just plumped for this one. When I was a kid there was a random repeat of a Troughton episode. My memories are a bit vague but what I remember is that it was the six week school holiday and I was surprised to see it, so that probably makes it quite a few years after Troughton left. I left School in 1981 so I'm going to guess it was late 70's or very beginning of the 80s. It was a 'random' episode and not part of a repeated series and it was on BBC2 in the daytime. I'm going to guess it was on because the cricket was rained off or something. It might be this episode isn't a lost one, but if it is 'lost', given that it was repeated does it follow that it might be 'found' if it was put back in a different place to where it would normally be? Does anyone remember seeing it - if so is it 'lost', and (just because its gnawing at me) does anyone know which episode it was? Cheers all Andrew No, it's not lost. Everything that was left was accounted for in 1978.
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Post by simonashby on Jul 20, 2012 11:12:36 GMT
There's as much chance as me asking a random person on the street if they have anything.
Not saying it's not possible, but the odds are just as good (or bad) as any other.
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Post by simonashby on Jul 13, 2012 14:09:03 GMT
It's not a RT documentary is it?! The one that they said they would never do...
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Post by simonashby on Jul 2, 2012 9:43:54 GMT
The figures you quote are for horizontal resolution (definition from left to right) rather than vertical resolution (definition from top to bottom). Material has already been released on DVD using colour information sourced from recordings made on the Betamax format, which had broadly the same horizontal resolution as VHS - The Silurians, Terror of the Autons and The Daemons. As far as I'm aware, the chroma-dot recovery on The Ambassadors of Death has been confined to those sections where the colour on the existing off-air Betamax recording becomes unstable, suggesting that even a low resolution, second generation NTSC copy is preferable to chroma dot recovery...or is at least sufficiently close for the additional work to be unnecessary. Yes, but chroma information needn't be high resolution. The very fact that they are combining the chroma information with the TRs tells you that no domestic format would compete with the film copy. The OP is suggesting that a PAL VHS copy might be enough to rid the need of using film, which of course is not the case. As being used for Inferno, the combination of the relatively high quality and very stable colour form the NTSC Quad being overlayed onto the film is about as good as you can get without having the original PAL Quad.
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Post by simonashby on Jul 1, 2012 23:25:41 GMT
I don't think VHS was available when any missing colour Pertwees were broadcast in a PAL region, so such as tape isn't going to exist anyway.
But...
VHS is 250 lines or 230 lines depending on settings. It'd be a recording OF a 625 line programme, but the recording wouldn't be of the same resolution.
I assume you have seen a VHS recording... If not, do so. Anything from RSC or film recording based episodes are clearly superior in quality. You really don't need a side by side comparison to come to that conclusion!
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Post by simonashby on Jun 28, 2012 14:10:00 GMT
I hope the Inferno re-release will be a significant improvement as I was watching it on my year-old panasonic plasma and I thought the quality of the picture was quite poor.Very grainy and not a lot better than the video release in fact.The vid-fired re-release of THE TOMB OF THE CYBERMEN also leaves a lot to be desired-the new picture is soft and there is still quite a lot of picture juddering if you look closely.I think it's original release on DVD was better.The real issue here when talking about DVD re-releases is that the 16mm source tapes and NTSC recordings are artefacts-copies made after the event from the 16mm/35mm masters or 625 line recordings.You won't get pristine as recorded copies,no matter how much blurb you put out to try and fool the average fan.Lets be honest here-the original recordings are dead and buried.One better way of improving the quality is to try and provide some sort of 'home calibration menu' on the DVDs for people to use at home,similar to the picture calibration menus used on some blu-ray discs.This would be a much better alternative and would greatly enhance the picture quality of the poorer quality re-masters,rather than releasing a particular story for the nth time.Flat screen TVs have lots of calibration permutations and I'm sure this could be applied to the subsequent classic Dr Who releases. No-one is trying to fool anyone. No-one is lying or passing something off for something it isn't. Nor have any stories been released more than twice, as opposed to the many times you suggest. I don't really get what you are saying. The picture quality on the special editions is indeed better. I have seen it for myself and general consensus seems to point in the same direction. Blu Ray would help by allowing for better compression and therefore a clearer and sharper picture. Digital downloads in the future when physical formats are well and truly out the door will also allow for this.
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Post by simonashby on May 22, 2012 15:00:53 GMT
That comment is so vague, that it could mean mind of evil or ambassadors of death ....or nothing No... This is something other than MOE and he has stated that he has nothing to do with AOD. At least we can clear up this An Unearthly Child rubbish!
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