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Post by Gary on Feb 24, 2006 14:46:28 GMT
Lots of the old series are released in complete sets so I wondered why not Doctor Who.I was looking at the shop shelf the other day and it was full of em.Does not seem to stop other companies from making money by bringing series out all at once.
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Post by williamM on Feb 24, 2006 16:44:52 GMT
Hello All, I was watching my copy of Ambassadors of Death the other day, and was thinking that it would make an exellent candidate for a DVD release. Would too much work be required to recolorize the remaining material for a DVD release? This story is great, and would be fantastic to see on DVD. Anyone have any ideas or comments ? Lance. who would you get to do the comentary?
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Post by Wright Blan on Feb 24, 2006 19:07:14 GMT
Why not release "Dr Who" in Season boxsets? One simple reason matey: Money! Why release "Dr Who" by season when there is a ready target market of fans with high disposable incomes who will readily part with truckloads of cash to buy this show in bite-sized chunks (a story/serial at a time). In the case of the orphaned episodes being released (and making a large profit) I guess we should be thankful that the BBC are not releasing the older stuff an episode at a time! ...and next month's releases... "The War Machines": Episode 3 (only) and "The Daemons": Episode 4 (only - but it's the colour one!) Mabye, but not everyone's going to buy every episode when it comes out. There are multiple stories that I really have no urge to go out and buy. Sadly, these seem to be the ones the Beeb has decided to relase on DVD! I'm not interested in buying "The Hand of Fear" by Itself. But if it was packaged with "The Deadly Assassin", "The Face of Evil", and "The Robots of Death" and I could get it at a reasonable price (meaning not what they charge for "Babylon 5" boxed sets! >:(0, I'd probably buy it. The boxed sets of the more popular shows do sell here in the US. The biggest drawback is the price. If I could get one season of Doctor Who for under $40.00 I'd probably get it. It's market driven. The market for boxed sets is good. We'll see it eventually. Star Trek finally broke down and did it, didn't they?
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Post by LanceM on Feb 24, 2006 21:14:22 GMT
On my copy of the Time Warrior it is in movie format as well. So, I think we have now solved this dilemma after much discussion and debate on the subject. That the Time Warrior was only released by the BBC as a movie format release. Now, what they need to do is when it comes time to release it on DVD ( I hope I am not too old by that time ) in episodic format. Lance.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2006 21:49:45 GMT
Getting back to Ambassadors, this is probably something more for the RT guys to answer but maybe someone here can answer. I know Terror of Autons and Silurians were colourised in '93. Daemons sometime around the same time. Was Ambassadors not done at that time because it was seen to be a less popular story and shelved for a later release date? Or, were there deeper technical issues to do with the print that prevented colourisation?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2006 22:07:24 GMT
I've just read more closely the original page and realise it must be a technical issue. I take it the B&W print was more damaged than the other stories. Sorry for the defunct question.
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Post by Steven Sigel on Feb 26, 2006 4:17:44 GMT
The B&W prints are fine (I've seen prints of them). It's the color NTSC video copy that was all messed up.
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Post by L haberfield on Feb 26, 2006 20:53:35 GMT
One of the eps on Uk Gold no5 I think was pretty ropey when it was shown in b/w several yrs ago.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2006 4:14:57 GMT
So it sounds like it just needs a quick dose of Reverse Standards Conversion. Axos looks great now!
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Post by B Thomas on Feb 27, 2006 8:20:17 GMT
So it sounds like it just needs a quick dose of Reverse Standards Conversion. Axos looks great now! It does? Excellent. Always liked that story (especially the horrific, tentacled Axons wandering about - great stuff...).
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2006 11:31:23 GMT
There's even a short doco on the DVD about the Reverse Standards Conversion. These RT guys are getting so clever that I reckon one day soon we'll be watching a DVD of Power of the Daleks with a Doco titled "How we made the telesnaps move".
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Post by Andy McKinney on Feb 27, 2006 14:20:17 GMT
So it sounds like it just needs a quick dose of Reverse Standards Conversion. If you're talking about Ambassadors, then is isn't quite that simple. Reverse standards conversion works on Axos because that NTSC tape was an original 2" quad broadcast-standard tape, dubbed directly from the PAL 2" master in the 1970s. The only colour copy of Ambassadors that exists is an off-air consumer recording on home equipment, nowhere near broadcast standard. Aside from that, there were signal/reception problems when it was being recorded, which is why the colour wasn't able to be fully restored for the video release. That is precisely the reason the recolourisation of Ambassadors was abandoned in the '90s: it couldn't be done in the same manner as Autons, Daemons, etc. as the colour information doesn't exist for the entire story, as it drops out from time to time, plus the strobing. The only way this will get restored to full colour is for either a better-quality recording to turn up someday, or when technology becomes more accessible/less expensive, the sections still in B/W will have to be re-coloured from scratch, much in the same way that studios go and colour old black-and-white movies.
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Post by williamM on Feb 27, 2006 18:09:35 GMT
what is the price of this process now?
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Post by LanceM on Feb 27, 2006 18:59:21 GMT
I am sure that it won't be cheap.
Lance.
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Post by Wright Blan on Feb 27, 2006 19:03:15 GMT
what is the price of this process now? I would have thought the process would be cheaper than it was 20 years ago, when Ted Turner was colorizing everything he could grab his hands on (except for Citizen Kane, which he wanted to maim, but found out he didn't have the rights to do so)
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