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Post by odysseaschristou on Jan 27, 2023 13:42:55 GMT
I’ve pre-ordered my copy
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Post by robrudderham on Jan 27, 2023 15:59:23 GMT
Good to hear Season 9 is getting the Blu-ray treatment! And nice to see Katy Manning doing some new business, but these promo trailers seem to be a complete waste of budget – I'm constantly irked, especially, that the so-called writer/director always gets a whopping credit at the very beginning. It's not about him for goodness sake! They’re presented as mini episodes, and accordingly they have writer/director credits as a full episode would. Not sure why this irks you. In terms of being a waste of budget, the whole point of these is to engage potential buyers and show the set off as well as possible, which they do extremely well, IMO. I don't buy the season sets nor the animations. I'm perfectly happy with my DVD collection and Loose Cannon reconstructions (which I much prefer to the animations, but to each their own). However, I must admit I love the BluRay season trailers. If there was a release just of those I'd buy it -- just love seeing those characters again. Dare I say it? The best 'new Who' being made!
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Post by josephsenior on Jan 27, 2023 16:34:07 GMT
They’re presented as mini episodes, and accordingly they have writer/director credits as a full episode would. Not sure why this irks you. In terms of being a waste of budget, the whole point of these is to engage potential buyers and show the set off as well as possible, which they do extremely well, IMO. I don't buy the season sets nor the animations. I'm perfectly happy with my DVD collection and Loose Cannon reconstructions (which I much prefer to the animations, but to each their own). However, I must admit I love the BluRay season trailers. If there was a release just of those I'd buy it -- just love seeing those characters again. Dare I say it? The best 'new Who' being made! They do come on the collection boxset as a special feature. It is worth getting them especially for the enhanced visuals. They look so good.
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Post by markperry on Feb 7, 2023 10:17:57 GMT
The Dalek Invasion Of Earth. Ep 5 didn't have the optical sound which wasn't the finished mix oh well wouldn't have been nice ti hear the difference. Ep 4 still sounds much fresher on VHS than the dvd and now the blu ray which now sound more filmy now but tolerable, grab the vhs and prove me wrong. I won't complain as I've copied it. It says the the blu ray has an exclusive enchand audio mix but to me it sounded no different and i used headphones. Am I wrong.
Otherwise a good set, I'm up to the trivial track of the above so still a bit to go. Willam Russells interview was pretty good despite his Dementia and physically looks pretty good for his 90s.
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Post by Richard Bignell on Feb 7, 2023 13:02:43 GMT
It says the the blu ray has an exclusive enchand audio mix but to me it sounded no different and i used headphones. Am I wrong. Yes. All the Dalek voices have been enhanced.
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Post by markperry on Feb 8, 2023 8:54:45 GMT
Now I noticed it: the modulation to make them more gratier. It's almost the same when you hear it the first time around. Shame they originally they didn't notice in ep 6 when the Daleks brain is getting fried how more it effective it could actually sound rather than the single human tone.
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Post by barneyhall on Mar 21, 2023 21:21:34 GMT
Working my way through the special features on season 9(I always do before watching the actual serials) and ice spotted that both the sea devil's and Curse of peladon have the dvd versions of some episodes as special features. A quick Google has told me reverse standard conversion. What I'm wondering if anyone can help tell me is what have they done to the versions that are just on the blu ray as normal. Is it a new process that's considered better than reverse standard conversion? Have better copies of these episodes turned up. Any info I'd love to know.
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Post by John Wall on Mar 21, 2023 22:16:40 GMT
Working my way through the special features on season 9(I always do before watching the actual serials) and ice spotted that both the sea devil's and Curse of peladon have the dvd versions of some episodes as special features. A quick Google has told me reverse standard conversion. What I'm wondering if anyone can help tell me is what have they done to the versions that are just on the blu ray as normal. Is it a new process that's considered better than reverse standard conversion? Have better copies of these episodes turned up. Any info I'd love to know. Time Monster has DVD. episodes 1 to 5 on the second disc. Thanks for asking the question 👍
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Post by Will Weller on Apr 4, 2023 19:29:16 GMT
A long overdue hello!
I watched “Terror of the Autons” on my standard edition Season 8 Blu-Ray the other day with the 5.1 surround sound switched on and couldn’t help but notice that the theme music sounded slightly different vs other 5.1 mixes on the collection sets.
Did Mark Ayres create a brand new mix of the theme for this story? Considering it uses the same theme music as “Fury from the Deep”, it definitely sounds different.
“The Dæmons” seems to use the regular 5.1 theme mix used on the other ‘70s Blu-Ray sets (but with the “stutter” at the start).
If anyone knows anything it would be greatly appreciated!
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Post by andyparting on Apr 5, 2023 7:55:07 GMT
A long overdue hello! I watched “Terror of the Autons” on my standard edition Season 8 Blu-Ray the other day with the 5.1 surround sound switched on and couldn’t help but notice that the theme music sounded slightly different vs other 5.1 mixes on the collection sets. Did Mark Ayres create a brand new mix of the theme for this story? Considering it uses the same theme music as “Fury from the Deep”, it definitely sounds different. “The Dæmons” seems to use the regular 5.1 theme mix used on the other ‘70s Blu-Ray sets (but with the “stutter” at the start). If anyone knows anything it would be greatly appreciated! Also noticed a difference with the theme music for The Deadly Assassin 5.1 surround sound, Blu-Ray, also Terror of the Zygons DVD, 5.1. Loved the way both sounded different to the regular mix.
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Post by Will Weller on Apr 5, 2023 18:12:08 GMT
A long overdue hello! I watched “Terror of the Autons” on my standard edition Season 8 Blu-Ray the other day with the 5.1 surround sound switched on and couldn’t help but notice that the theme music sounded slightly different vs other 5.1 mixes on the collection sets. Did Mark Ayres create a brand new mix of the theme for this story? Considering it uses the same theme music as “Fury from the Deep”, it definitely sounds different. “The Dæmons” seems to use the regular 5.1 theme mix used on the other ‘70s Blu-Ray sets (but with the “stutter” at the start). If anyone knows anything it would be greatly appreciated! Also noticed a difference with the theme music for The Deadly Assassin 5.1 surround sound, Blu-Ray, also Terror of the Zygons DVD, 5.1. Loved the way both sounded different to the regular mix. Absolutely Andy, I do love the way the 5.1 mix of the ‘70s theme sounds on the DVDs & Blu-Rays that are lucky enough to have surround sound! The fact that the 5.1 theme on “Terror of the Autons” seems to sound so similar to the standard mono theme is what makes me think that Mark Ayres must have made a new surround theme mix. I’ve listened to it with headphones and it is definitely more surround than the mono theme, but it would be nice to have confirmation either way if a new mix was used or not.
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Post by awpeacock on Apr 7, 2023 13:26:07 GMT
Does the order in which the Collection sets are released give us a clue as to what is still out there? We are told there are at least 6 MEs in the hands of private collectors - if any of these were either of the missing episodes of The Crusade, for example, then would Season 2 have been held back to allow for negotiations to try and retrieve these first? So could we read anything into the next B&W announcement - if it's not Seasons 1 or 6 which currrently are the next closest to completeness, could we assume efforts are ongoing to arrange for the return of episodes from those?
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Post by John Wall on Apr 7, 2023 14:40:24 GMT
Does the order in which the Collection sets are released give us a clue as to what is still out there? We are told there are at least 6 MEs in the hands of private collectors - if any of these were either of the missing episodes of The Crusade, for example, then would Season 2 have been held back to allow for negotiations to try and retrieve these first? So could we read anything into the next B&W announcement - if it's not Seasons 1 or 6 which currrently are the next closest to completeness, could we assume efforts are ongoing to arrange for the return of episodes from those? I’ve suggested that before. I’d like to see animations restart. Wheel is an obvious candidate and would complete Season Five.
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Post by Richard Bignell on Apr 7, 2023 16:48:06 GMT
Does the order in which the Collection sets are released give us a clue as to what is still out there? Nope. No. No. This has been a public service announcement. I hope it helped!
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Post by josephsenior on Apr 7, 2023 20:34:20 GMT
Isn't the plan to just do which ever season is most complete? I assume if there are any missing episode discoveries after the fact then we'd buy an updated disc with the new content to replace the old one.
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