8th Doctor dvd question
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There's a (reportedly dull) commentary by director Geoffrey Sax, the usual production note subtitles and photo gallery, an isolated music track, four standalone audio tracks of short pieces of music used in the movie, two trailers, a four minute promotional featurette made by Fox at the time of the movie, slightly longer cuts of the interviews used to make that featurette, a ten minute 2001 interview with executive producer Philip Segal, a two-minute tour of the TARDIS set with Segal, some behind-the-scenes footage from the filming of three different sequences, and two brief alternate scenes. It was a very early release, so there's nothing as substantial as what you find on more recent DVDs.
^I've been hoping that would happen. It'd be nice to have some extras about the "wilderness years," and of course greater insight into the tangled production process of the movie. We'll see what develops.
^ No kidding! I gave up waiting and bought the R2, then had it copied onto an R1 DVD. Quality's not the best, but it's good enough. You'd think there wouldn't have been any legal issues with the R1 release, considering it was a FOX co-production...and made in Canada! 
The issue is that the North American home video rights are held by Universal, and they have no apparent interest in either releasing it themselves or licensing it to BBC Worldwide so they can put out their version in Region 1. I really think that if it were ever going to happen it would already have, but NBC Universal Television are the ones to contact if you want to make your interest known.
Typical studio BS. Good news about the re-release. I'll probably be getting that since I have multi-region decoding software on my PC now.
My kid brother found a DVD player in his closet once, which turned out to have an easy code to shut off the region-encoding. It's a Philips; I think most of them can be similarly manipulated. As soon as this was done, I bought the TV movie (as well as the Derek Jacobi Hamlet).
I bought a super-cheap DVD player (a COBY-100) for ten dollars a few years ago. It has no region coding at all.
It's the only reason I have it, to play import DVDs.
I think the golden opportunity would have been a release alongside the debut of the new series on the Sci-Fi Channel a few years ago. Why Vivendi Universal didn't use that as an opportunity to sell the one piece of Doctor Who they own is somewhat baffling. They could have (and probably would have) slapped a sticker on the front, "As Seen on the Sci-Fi Channel!" even though it starred a different Doctor.
I'm also surprised that the BBC hasn't bought out the rights from Vivendi Universal.
It could be that no one on either side sees any value in doing so, either in releasing it or in paying for it to be released.
^Why does Universal own the R1 rights when it was a BBC co-production with FOX?
^Because it was actually a co-production among BBC Television, BBC Worldwide, Universal Television, and the FOX Network.
I listened to the commentary today. It's painful. Unless you like a director telling you something thats obviously CGI is in fact... CGI.
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