The Third Doctor’s last season uses the diamond logo more oftenly associated with the Fourth.
I like the bendy-H logo used onscreen for the Third and Eighth Doctors. It looked good on products.
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The Third Doctor’s last season uses the diamond logo more oftenly associated with the Fourth.
I like the bendy-H logo used onscreen for the Third and Eighth Doctors. It looked good on products.
Yep, they did use that one before Tom. They also reused Pertwee's font style for the 1996 movie.
I'm glad they're doing this. I sold all my DVDs so I don't mind starting again, and this time at 1080p. Plus The Tom Baker Years on disc should make a lot of people happy. Makes you wonder if someone might finance Davison and McCoy's Years to finally be filmed. Despite them being 30 years older!
HOPEFULLY the upscaling process has been refined so all that 'Doctor Who will never be released in HD' banter that went on a decade ago was bollocks and not unfortunate foreshadowing...
HOPEFULLY the upscaling process has been refined so all that 'Doctor Who will never be released in HD' banter that went on a decade ago was bollocks and not unfortunate foreshadowing...
Nearly £40 to save about 5cm of shelf space for upscaled SD and precious few extras with no announcement of a commitment to continuing producing such editions? No thanks. Perhaps I'll change my mind when all the classic series are available in similar sets with all of the missing episodes animated (or the oft-rumoured, surviving recordings are recovered from the estates of old, deranged hoarders when they pop their clogs) and the price is not so ridiculously high. Meanwhile, I've ripped my DVDs to ISOs on a 2.5" hard drive to save room and for convenience.
Yeah, I have all of 2 classic DVD's (Five Doctors & Shada). The idea of 1 episode/serial per DVD was insane to me, plus the cost was outrageous (always is with BBC). So a reasonably priced (even for the Beeb) series set would be doable.
So, 6 serials on 6 DVD's is about 3.5" and the BD set is 1"?
Those 'precious few' new extras announced are on top of all the extras ported over from the previous DVDs, which will be in this set - and the BBC basically emptied their archives into those DVDs. For those who couldn't afford to buy them one title at a time for $20 a piece (at best), this seems to me a no-brainer.
The price per serial on DVD seem to average about £7 ($10) on amazon.co.uk when special offers are on - so £40 for a season of 6 serials is only a slight saving - in the UK, at least. The BD set would save just over a couple of inches but it's an expensive way of gaining space and would look especially odd if the other seasons aren't also re-released in the same format. A hard drive that is less than half the size of a Blu-ray case is much more convenient and my DVDs can go into the attic.
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The possibility they don't do all Doctor's and every series would make me hesitant. But again, I never got the DVD's, so no double dipping for me. I'll probably buy whatever they release on blu-ray if only for the convenience of getting an entire series at once.
Though it seems if they can get 1 series of the modern show in a 15mm case, they ought be able to do the same with the classic series'. I don't see the need for 1" of packaging.
I read a comment on Amazon UK that the set will likely be a book-like affair with each serial on a dedicated disc held on a separate plastic tray. That rumour seems plausible given the sample picture that is available. Discs inserted in cardboard sleeves would be just horrible.
I hate the sleeve layout, even if it got me that massive Stargate SG-1 series set that looks great on the shelf. So I can appreciate the well designed set idea, but I also like the space saving sets too.
The 15mm cases (like with the ST:TNG blu-rays) can hold up to 8 discs, but are so much slimmer than the book-like thing. Going with 1 serial per disc makes no sense to me, it's not like 2 or 3 per disc is in any way "cramming them in".
I suspect one serial per disc makes possible releases of themed sets - for example: cybermen, daleks, etc. at little extra expense in production. Silly really as subscription streaming would seem the way to go. However, I guess real fans are avid collectors of physical media.
I like the physical media. Those themed sets are a little ridiculous unless someone doesn't want all the other stuff. It wouldn't be that hard to pick those themed serials out and package them differently even with 2-3 serials per disc on the big set.
I'm kinda surprised that it took them this long. I'm not sure that a Blu-Ray up-conversion is really necessary but I've often thought that they might get a lot more buy-in from general consumers.
I can attest to that. A couple years ago, I put up some new shelves in my room, 3 to be exact, each just over 6ft long. I was so excited that I would be able to cleanly & neatly arrange & alphabetize all of my TV show DVDs. Then I got to Doctor Who. I expected it to take up a lot of space but I was shocked at just how much it took up! It covers a tiny bit of the end of the first shelf ("The Beginning" through "Planet of Giants"), the 2nd shelf covers everything from "The Dalek Invasion of Earth" through "Revelation of the Daleks" (minus a half-dozen Peter Davison stories that I'm still missing), and nearly half of the 3rd shelf is taken up by everything from "The Trial of a Time Lord" through "Twice Upon a Time." So, that's basically half of my shelf space taken up by Doctor Who. (I'm thinking of adding a new shelf just above the window to be an exclusive Doctor Who shelf so that other shows can finally get their due breathing room: Frasier, Greg the Bunny, Histeria!, Homicide: Life on the Street, Jack of All Trades, Odyssey 5, Orphan Black, The Prisoner, Red Dwarf, Roswell, The Sarah Jane Adventures, Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, Star Trek, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Torchwood, Tru Calling, The Twilight Zone, Veronica Mars, Wonderfalls, The X-Files, etc.)
Agreed. I find that very annoying. Meanwhile, I don't know how it's done in the UK, but here in the US they made a choice to have the early Jon Pertwee logo (also used for the Paul McGann movie) used for all classic Doctor Who merchandise, including action figures, novels, audio adventures, and DVDs for everything ranging from William Hartnell's earliest stories all the way to "Scream of the Shalka" with Richard E. Grant. I like that uniformity, which makes it all the more irritating that they used the same logo but a different overall design for the DVD release of the animated reconstruction of "Power of the Daleks."
But then, I've already had to get used to inconsistent package designs for Red Dwarf and Law & Order. (It is possible to get a uniform look for the complete series of Law & Order but it would involve re-purchasing everything from the 1st 8 seasons as well as Season 14. Meanwhile, I'm really jealous of the British Red Dwarf fans who have DVDs with reversible covers for Seasons X-XII, where the reverse side has cover art matching that of Seasons I-VIII. I guess "Back to Earth" is still kinda SOL but that mini-series sucked anyway.)
Amazon has classic series DVD's anywhere from $8 to $20, for one "serial". Probably another reason I could never collect them, not to mention the room that would take up.
I can attest to that. A couple years ago, I put up some new shelves in my room, 3 to be exact, each just over 6ft long. I was so excited that I would be able to cleanly & neatly arrange & alphabetize all of my TV show DVDs. Then I got to Doctor Who. I expected it to take up a lot of space but I was shocked at just how much it took up! It covers a tiny bit of the end of the first shelf ("The Beginning" through "Planet of Giants"), the 2nd shelf covers everything from "The Dalek Invasion of Earth" through "Revelation of the Daleks" (minus a half-dozen Peter Davison stories that I'm still missing), and nearly half of the 3rd shelf is taken up by everything from "The Trial of a Time Lord" through "Twice Upon a Time." So, that's basically half of my shelf space taken up by Doctor Who. (I'm thinking of adding a new shelf just above the window to be an exclusive Doctor Who shelf so that other shows can finally get their due breathing room: Frasier, Greg the Bunny, Histeria!, Homicide: Life on the Street, Jack of All Trades, Odyssey 5, Orphan Black, The Prisoner, Red Dwarf, Roswell, The Sarah Jane Adventures, Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, Star Trek, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Torchwood, Tru Calling, The Twilight Zone, Veronica Mars, Wonderfalls, The X-Files, etc.)
Agreed. I find that very annoying. Meanwhile, I don't know how it's done in the UK, but here in the US they made a choice to have the early Jon Pertwee logo (also used for the Paul McGann movie) used for all classic Doctor Who merchandise, including action figures, novels, audio adventures, and DVDs for everything ranging from William Hartnell's earliest stories all the way to "Scream of the Shalka" with Richard E. Grant. I like that uniformity, which makes it all the more irritating that they used the same logo but a different overall design for the DVD release of the animated reconstruction of "Power of the Daleks."
But then, I've already had to get used to inconsistent package designs for Red Dwarf and Law & Order. (It is possible to get a uniform look for the complete series of Law & Order but it would involve re-purchasing everything from the 1st 8 seasons as well as Season 14. Meanwhile, I'm really jealous of the British Red Dwarf fans who have DVDs with reversible covers for Seasons X-XII, where the reverse side has cover art matching that of Seasons I-VIII. I guess "Back to Earth" is still kinda SOL but that mini-series sucked anyway.)
I should think it more likely they'll continue with Tom Baker's seasons in sequential order. He is after all, the most popular Doctor.
Perhaps, but they could also follow the pattern of the DVDs and release them randomly. If there weren't so many deleted black & white episodes, William Hartnell's debut season could have been next. I guess we'll have to see.
I have always detested his ‘most popular doctor’ status. It’s more that his shadows looms large, particularly in fandom, because of when and for how long he was in the role. As us younger kids come up the ranks, it’s something that will fade...eventually there will be an editor at DWM whose golden era is the wilderness years or Tennant, and things will change I expect.
That’s no disprespect to Tom, given how he is now, accepting his elder statesman of who role...but things weren’t always so peachy keen.
Well, whatever seasons they're doing next, they're already going full speed ahead with them. Chris Chapman tweeted today that he and Ed Stradley are tag-team working on multiple DW BR box-sets.
They're going to have to do several a year methinks or they'll be at it for the next twenty to thirty years.
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