So I'm on the Doctor Who News Page and I see a link to "ClassicDW"'s Twitter page:
http://twitter.com/classicdw/statuses/14901702151
I have no idea who ClassicDW is, but if the news page is linking to it I'm assuming it's someone involved with, well, ClassicDW.
Anyway, you don't need to click the link because I'll quote the message here:
"Working on ideas on how to close the DVD run with a bang! :-)"
This illustrates how useless Twitter can be. Not to mention how rumors can be started by taking things out of context.
By reading this, one might wonder if the DVD releases will be ending soon. Now, the last word I heard, via the Doctor Who Information Network magazine Enlightenment, which in turn covered a Q&A with members of the Restoration Team last fall, was that the DVD releases are expected to continue until at least November 2013 and the 50th anniversary, by which time it's expected all available episodes would have been released/restored/recreated/made from bits of string.
Maybe by then someone will have figured out a way to upconvert old video footage to high def, so they can start all over again. Never say never - in the last few years technicians invented a system to restore original video look to film recordings of video called vidFIRE - something considered impossible 10 years ago - which has been used to great success on classic Who releases, and they also figured out how to reclaim lost color signal from video without the need for artificial colorization, and this is also being done with some Pertwee episodes. So who is to say someone in the next few years won't discover a magic button that'll make it possible to upconvert, say, old video-edited TNG and DS9 episodes and 1980s-era DW into high def without the expense of having to basically remake the episodes. It might already exist and people are just waiting for the cost to come down or a patent to clear. We can hope, anyway.
Anyway, my point is, this Twitter message is an example of how useless and misleading Twitter can be at times. It could be someone just idly indicating that they're thinking up ideas way ahead (indeed I believe we've already heard details about some releases that aren't expected until 2011). Or it could be an indication that we don't have another 3 1/2 years of classic-series DVDs to look forward to after all.
So if there's anyone out there involved in the DVD range who would care to enlighten about the significance of the Twit, that would be great. I for one am in no hurry to see the DVD range retired (a move to Blu-Ray would be fine but as I mentioned above we need to wait for another mad scientist to invent something before that happens with the classic series).
Alex
http://twitter.com/classicdw/statuses/14901702151
I have no idea who ClassicDW is, but if the news page is linking to it I'm assuming it's someone involved with, well, ClassicDW.
Anyway, you don't need to click the link because I'll quote the message here:
"Working on ideas on how to close the DVD run with a bang! :-)"
This illustrates how useless Twitter can be. Not to mention how rumors can be started by taking things out of context.
By reading this, one might wonder if the DVD releases will be ending soon. Now, the last word I heard, via the Doctor Who Information Network magazine Enlightenment, which in turn covered a Q&A with members of the Restoration Team last fall, was that the DVD releases are expected to continue until at least November 2013 and the 50th anniversary, by which time it's expected all available episodes would have been released/restored/recreated/made from bits of string.
Maybe by then someone will have figured out a way to upconvert old video footage to high def, so they can start all over again. Never say never - in the last few years technicians invented a system to restore original video look to film recordings of video called vidFIRE - something considered impossible 10 years ago - which has been used to great success on classic Who releases, and they also figured out how to reclaim lost color signal from video without the need for artificial colorization, and this is also being done with some Pertwee episodes. So who is to say someone in the next few years won't discover a magic button that'll make it possible to upconvert, say, old video-edited TNG and DS9 episodes and 1980s-era DW into high def without the expense of having to basically remake the episodes. It might already exist and people are just waiting for the cost to come down or a patent to clear. We can hope, anyway.
Anyway, my point is, this Twitter message is an example of how useless and misleading Twitter can be at times. It could be someone just idly indicating that they're thinking up ideas way ahead (indeed I believe we've already heard details about some releases that aren't expected until 2011). Or it could be an indication that we don't have another 3 1/2 years of classic-series DVDs to look forward to after all.
So if there's anyone out there involved in the DVD range who would care to enlighten about the significance of the Twit, that would be great. I for one am in no hurry to see the DVD range retired (a move to Blu-Ray would be fine but as I mentioned above we need to wait for another mad scientist to invent something before that happens with the classic series).
Alex
