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Post by timmunton on Nov 11, 2022 14:19:31 GMT
Does anyone please know; will the original series 2 (Hartnell) blu ray collection definitely get - or at least what's the likelihood - a re-release in the UK in "standard" packaging? Well there’s certainly been no hint that standard packaging releases will exclude certain seasons and I can’t see why they would tbh. The only likely difference with Season 2 would be RRP as the upcoming Limited Edition is higher priced than usual - probably to reflect the protracted length of 60’s seasons compared to what followed which is understandable. As for a U.S. release of Season 2, again don’t see why not however there’s always the chance that the series is cancelled due to falling demand and/or early, creaky sixties ‘Who being considered commercially unviable in certain territories. Unlikely of course but not impossible… Regardless, if Season 8 (Pertwee’s second) is anything to go by - released in standard packaging next week (Nov 14) here in the U.K., you’ll have about a year and a half to wait for Season 2 (The Ltd Ed of Season 8 was originally released in early 2021). If you can wait that long then… Thanks mattg for your very helpful reply - it's much appreciated. Cheers! Sounds like it'll be a long, long wait for the UK standard edition & the USA version pre-order at the moment with shipping & UK import tax is quite a lot more expensive. I'm loath to get the special larger packaging edition for the reasons mentioned but may well stick with my pre-order of it, all things considered... Thanks again; that really helped clarify everything👍
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Post by Jaspal Cheema on Nov 19, 2022 22:44:02 GMT
Rumours are that Season Nine is next for the blu-ray treatment?
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Post by barneyhall on Nov 20, 2022 0:46:23 GMT
Ooooh what's the source of this...I'm still shocked season 11 hasn't been higher up the list. Apart from invasion of the dinosaurs I thought it was a pretty easy clean up job.
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Post by mattg on Nov 20, 2022 17:35:58 GMT
Ooooh what's the source of this...I'm still shocked season 11 hasn't been higher up the list. Apart from invasion of the dinosaurs I thought it was a pretty easy clean up job. The strongly rumoured Season 20 also remains unreleased lest we forget. Confirmed by one of the cast (Janet Fielding I think) to be being worked on a few years ago it was reputedly delayed because the then global lockdown prevented Mark Strickson, having since relocated to New Zealand, from returning to the U.K. to contribute. As I say though that was a few years ago now so one wonders why it remains M.I.A - especially as the likes of the upcoming Season 2 and Pertwee era ‘Who must be considerably more challenging and labour intensive in the restoration stakes!
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Post by Jaspal Cheema on Nov 20, 2022 18:06:15 GMT
Ooooh what's the source of this...I'm still shocked season 11 hasn't been higher up the list. Apart from invasion of the dinosaurs I thought it was a pretty easy clean up job. Apparently Wendy Padbury has admitted to doing a Behind The Sofa commentary for season 9 and Michael Briant has said he's been working with Katy Manning again.
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Post by John Wall on Nov 20, 2022 20:28:09 GMT
Ooooh what's the source of this...I'm still shocked season 11 hasn't been higher up the list. Apart from invasion of the dinosaurs I thought it was a pretty easy clean up job. To mangle a quote, Dinosaurs are the elephant in the room!
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Post by John Wall on Nov 20, 2022 20:34:02 GMT
Rumours are that Season Nine is next for the blu-ray treatment? In general the picture quality for that season is pretty good. imho a couple of episodes of Sea Devils that were reverse standards converted from NTSC - Never Twice the Same Colour - could do with a little bit more digital noise reduction, but I’d love it on my shelves 👍🧐
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Post by josephsenior on Nov 21, 2022 11:40:02 GMT
With Season Nine being a decent candidate, I would have thought they'd do the partial colour recovery and then manually add in the blue signal that way they would get a near perfect re-colourisation using the colours found in the remaining copy. Though this is just speculation the idea alone would probably be daft to pull off.
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Post by barneyhall on Dec 5, 2022 8:48:17 GMT
Anyone else suddenly showing a shipping delay? Ordered through amazon and just went on to check and its showing as not yet shipped due on the 10th 😪
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Post by odysseaschristou on Dec 5, 2022 10:04:11 GMT
Anyone else suddenly showing a shipping delay? Ordered through amazon and just went on to check and its showing as not yet shipped due on the 10th 😪 I had an e-mail yesterday saying that my order had been dispatched for delivery. Just checked my account and it says, order due to be delivered today. I don’t suppose this helps you any.
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Post by stevehoare61 on Dec 5, 2022 14:29:25 GMT
I also had a message saying the set had been delayed...but then they took the money Saturday and it arrived this morning...so not sure whats going on.
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Post by mattg on Dec 5, 2022 16:28:33 GMT
Add me to the Amazon ‘charged > dispatched > expected today > nowhere to be found’ club for Season 2! Maddeningly it’s sold out pretty much everywhere too I note - thought that was a thing of the past for these ‘Collection sets.
It seems that a combination of continuous postal strikes, possible (Amazon) workforce deficiencies and obviously the pressures of the festive season has tanked Amazon’s logistical system at the moment. I say that as a fair few other items I ordered have gone MIA as well…
Regardless, let’s hope this mess is resolved soon!
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Post by John Wall on Dec 5, 2022 16:39:46 GMT
Mine has been collected by the carrier and is due on Wednesday.
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Post by josephsenior on Dec 5, 2022 16:42:50 GMT
I saw mine was the 10th and then I updated the delivery option on the app and it changed to today. I do now have the Collection set
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Post by odysseaschristou on Dec 5, 2022 21:48:06 GMT
Anyone else suddenly showing a shipping delay? Ordered through amazon and just went on to check and its showing as not yet shipped due on the 10th 😪 I had an e-mail yesterday saying that my order had been dispatched for delivery. Just checked my account and it says, order due to be delivered today. I don’t suppose this helps you any. My one did arrive today
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