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Post by simonashby on Mar 7, 2014 18:00:48 GMT
Its shocking people have to wait so long in this digital era!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Heh. The digital era? iTunes. |
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Post by simonashby on Mar 6, 2014 14:13:03 GMT
As of the moment those two stories are considered "missing" due to the colour content being missing, although they clearly are in a far better state than the 60s episodes, we are jst restricted to viewing them the same way most people would have done on first transmission (B/W and colour televisions didn't get to a 50/50 split until 1975 after all). I think we're really skewing the definition of missing. It's like saying Enemy of the World is still missing - simply because it's original format doesn't exist. No different to IOD 1. |
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Post by simonashby on Mar 5, 2014 9:19:09 GMT
Of course if there are more episodes to come  Had to put that last bit in before the regular Doubter comes in lol Yeah, hello. This 'doubter' label nonsense has become tedious. 'We doubters' just don't formulate theories based on scraps on information and supposed information and then convince myself that they must be true. 'We' then don't agree with everyone of the same tune and then label those that don't with a silly name like 'doubter' and keep banging on about it. There was another poster on here a while back that kept saying the same thing before spiralling out of control. Meh it's morning and I'm a bit grumpy, but seriously, being neutral and open minded surely isn't a hard concept to grasp and accept. Maybe it's because that other poster that used the same term 'doubter' really could rub people up the wrong way. You can believe what you like but at the end of the day this labelling gets tiresome. |
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Post by simonashby on Mar 4, 2014 0:41:40 GMT
This idea that they might be testing the waters and assessing market value is interesting... but it's a weak theory in my opinion. The market value can be estimated from existing DVD sales. Extra sales simply out of curiosity from news reports aren't going to be that significant.
Otherwise it's the same old core market.
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Post by simonashby on Feb 27, 2014 14:53:21 GMT
Are n't these all old quotes from 2013 by Phil Morris? Yes ... surprised no one has pointed this out, instead of just waffling on about nothing. Why do so many poster here these days post and post and post and say nothing at all ... the signal to noise ratio here has dropped to almost nothing in recent months. It's just a puff piece relating to the Web DVD release. That's all. I believe the PM quote is from a November 2013 interview. I'm not sure why this is in a separate thread, instead of the existing thread about Web. Whilst there is an awful lot of waffle here, I think you should forgive people for not instantly spotting that. It was 4 months ago after all. I dare say [some of us] have other things to think about! |
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Post by simonashby on Feb 26, 2014 20:16:29 GMT
Expect the unexpected? So to all these Ominrumour people expecting 90+ episodes to turn up... There you have it! He really doesn't have anything else!  But really, things like this, straight form the horses mouth as it were, I'm slowly beginning to expect him to turn something else up from DW. I can't see why he'd break the silence and let this article go out if he weren't onto something (whatever that may be). |
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Post by simonashby on Feb 26, 2014 10:18:49 GMT
Surely the prints were still property of and at the mercy of the BBC? The copyright to the episodes would belong to the BBC. The actual physical film prints might belong to someone else. ...So broadcasters actually bought the prints, rather than just the rights? I always thought the BBC still owned the prints, and the broadcasters had 4 possible scenarios once they'd used up their rights: Destroy when finished, return to London, pass to the next country or hang on to it until the BBC instructs you to do one of the 3 previous things. |
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Post by simonashby on Feb 26, 2014 9:34:51 GMT
Surely the prints were still property of and at the mercy of the BBC?
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Post by simonashby on Feb 24, 2014 23:46:13 GMT
Interesting discussion. However, IIRC, wasn't the first two series of 'Doctor Who' the most widely sold? If so, then statistically these are the episodes most likely to be found. However, the finds of EotW and WoF could disprove that. As a skeptical cynic (or should that be a cynical skeptic?) I'll wait until any official announcements are made. As a 'Doctor Who' fan however, fingers (and everything else) crossed! It's virtually impossible to apply statistics to this subject. Masterplan wasn't sold to anybody - but we have three episodes. Marco Polo was sold to, iirc, twenty three countries - but we have no episodes. Prints were bicycled between broadcasters so twenty three sales certainly doesn't mean twenty three prints. Ohh... You beat me to it, ha!  |
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Post by simonashby on Feb 24, 2014 23:45:37 GMT
Interesting discussion. However, IIRC, wasn't the first two series of 'Doctor Who' the most widely sold? If so, then statistically these are the episodes most likely to be found. It's often brought up - how annoying it is that Marco, the most widely sold missing story is one without a single frame of footage surviving! But... In reality there are too many variables, including a lot of unknowns to come to any real conclusion on that. Marco itself was the most widely sold missing story. But in terms of actual copies, we can't be sure how many were made and sent out. Once you get over the lost paperwork, systematic destruction of copies and a general disregard for the rest of the copies once their useful life was over, it's really hard to back up this point! Enemy and Web were sold in notably smaller numbers. They survived. If there's one thing to learn from that is that the number of sales does not equate to it's probability of survival. |
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Post by simonashby on Feb 21, 2014 23:11:17 GMT
There isn't enough extant visual material to be that accurate without a lot of manual input, which renders the whole concept useless. The idea might be able to produce convincing results when (not if) computers can be programmed to be smart enough, but when compared to the real thing (if it ever turns up) will almost undoubtedly be different. But I do believe that CGI will become realistic enough, quick enough and cheap enough to reconstruct episodes that could pass for the real thing. And I do believe at one point some shots may be convincingly recreated automatically. When that will be is a different question. The same ideas could be applied much sooner to colourisation and resolution upscaling. Full colour HD Power of the Daleks here we come! Estimated launch date c. 2066! iTunes only... naturally... |
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Post by simonashby on Feb 13, 2014 0:46:44 GMT
Digital download is where it's at. It's cheaper. It's easier. It's cheaper. It's more convenient. It's cheaper. It's more accessible. It's cheaper. Think of all the shows that aren't considered commercially viable to release on a physical format, but could instead be offered for sale online with relatively little investment - look up 'the long tail'. Most of them are currently sitting or being stored onto a hard-drive somewhere anyway. Well to me blueray has always been a Betamax format. A johnny come lately format , providing an improved picture but only a relatively few really have the TV equipment to really notice the difference. And simply not worth the extra expense. As alluded to before, comparing DVD and Blu Ray is not the same as VHS and Betamax. |
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Post by simonashby on Feb 11, 2014 23:02:30 GMT
Do we know if this story was sold to the US or Canada and NTSC conversion dubs made ? Not until the 80s. No-one bought it until 1984. This excluded episode 1, despite existing in B/W. |
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Post by simonashby on Feb 6, 2014 12:34:35 GMT
LOL The important thing is the initial letters He could of said 100 cans. Why thousands ? Or was he just winding the fans up ? Well why not? Asking here isn't going to get you an answer, and sure as hell Mr Fiddy himself will ignore any request to explain himself - simply because he doesn't need to. It was never a big deal until people begin to pick and speculate and make it a 'big deal'. |
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Post by simonashby on Jan 25, 2014 18:46:44 GMT
Sometimes you know deep down something is wrong/isn't working/isn't the case, but you'll cling on to anything for a remote chance of hope.
It happens.
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Had to put that last bit in before the regular Doubter comes in lol
