O/T Steptoe and Son Series 3 DVD

[Gary]

Andy said:

"The chickens will come home to roost eventually. You can only get away with something for so long... "

You again ignore commercial considerations. I bought the 'definitive' (full price) Spacecraft set for the Moon Landing and the whole moonwalk is a b/w film recording. Now earlier this week, we had the pleasure of seeing the BBC's videotape of the same footage.

There is no comparison, the BBC footage is better. However, I accept that the official NASA archive may only have kept a film recording. Sometimes things just work that way. Now, it should have been VT and the moon landing footage is historically more important that Steptoe.

I doubt though if any of the people buying the set really noticed they were watching a kinescope.

?!?! Whats this reply all about?

[Andy Henderson]

The point is that people constantly bemoan the BBC for wiping tapes and in this case, poor quality film recordings, yet ironically the official DVD release of the moon landing is from a grotty film recording and the BBC has a very good VT of this. Now the moon landing DVD is more than three times the cost of the Steptoe releases, but even with the support of Twentieth Century Fox, they haven't got 'it right'. Sometimes you have to accept these problems and move on. It isn't exclusively a problem with the BBC.

[Laurence Piper]

Gary said:

?!?! Whats this reply all about?

Dunno. I was left scratching my head in surreal bemusement.