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Post by richardwoods on Jul 13, 2013 9:12:29 GMT
Just found a website offering all existing footage on 10 DVDs of Out of the Unknown and series 1 and 2 of Doomwatch. Any ideas or comments anyone? Not an official release I guess.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 13, 2013 9:33:13 GMT
No. Obviously a pirate. Any release of those series on DVD (wherever in the world) would have generated a lot of fan feedback and expectation. Expect them to be time-coded, poor quality and UK Gold repeats from VHS!
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Post by felixdembinski on Jul 13, 2013 14:18:51 GMT
I bought DVDs of out of the unknown off [deleted] a few years back, before the episodes became aviadable on youtube and torrent sites. The quality was very similar to those on youtube now.
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Post by richardwoods on Jul 13, 2013 16:34:15 GMT
I bought DVDs of out of the unknown off [deleted] a few years back, before the episodes became aviadable on youtube and torrent sites. The quality was very similar to those on youtube now. Thanks both, will probably give the Out of the Unknown a go, simply to have it all in one place. Looks on the face of it quite a good set with clips and audios from missing episodes but as you say the quality will probably leave a bit to be desired. Why oh why don't they hurry up and release the surviving episodes officially? |
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Post by Rob Moss on Jul 14, 2013 19:40:21 GMT
I'd seriously advise against dealing with websites offering pirate copies of anything. I'd also ask that you don't name them here, please. Ta!
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Post by richardwoods on Jul 14, 2013 20:48:08 GMT
Ok, apologies Rob, I wasn't 100% sure that it was pirate if you check out the start of the thread, though in fairness it did seem too good to be true that it was legit.
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Post by Rob Moss on Jul 14, 2013 22:36:51 GMT
That's ok, Richard - I'm sure we'd have heard about it if the BBC had decided to make either of those programmes available legitimately, and hooky copies have been floating around for years, so it's pretty certain that it was a dodgy site, sadly...
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2013 14:19:35 GMT
The pirates are simply exploiting what the BBC are failing to do. Of course neither show is ever gonna sell large quantities but there is a market out there who would buy official releases at the drop of a hat. Why don't the BBC just get their heads out their backsides and start catering for these cult tastes? If Network can issue long forgotten ITV series that have no hope in ever selling more than a thousand copies (or in some instances 500) then what is the BBC's problem? It's high time they stopped thinking of everything as profit, profit and profit and start mining their archives which in the DVD age, they've failed miserably at, sticking largely to safe stuff. Odd random things have been issued - "Adam Adamant Lives" being a prime example, but why stop there? So, sadly until the BBC stop messing about, we're always gonna have these pirates trying to cream in what the BBC can't be bothered to do. Nobody wins - the actors, writers, producers or the corporation - all lose any possible income as the pirates snag another customers' money.
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Post by Richard Marple on Jul 15, 2013 16:51:15 GMT
I guess it's down to the amount of royalties demanded by all the creative personnel.
When drawing up contracts the BBC seemed to overlook the possibility of many re-runs & home releases.
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