Disney and Doctor Who part ways

[bdub76]

Yeah, waiting this long to release it is a really dumb move on the BBC's part, it's not like they need to take extra time to dub it or add subtitles. At this point, between pirating, and bad word of mouth, this is gonna have no audience if or when it is actually released.
At least with the British stuff I watch on PBS and Britbox I know that within a few months it will be available on one or other.

Remember. Back when Doctor Who came back, the only way to watch uncut episodes when they aired in England was to pirate. If you go to Doctor Who conventions, the folks from the UK assume everyone at the con is a pirate because that's how you watched the material back in the day. That's why it wasn't surprising when one of the writers told folks to VPN it.

It wasn't until the Matt Smith era that the show aired uncut in the US. The first two new Doctors showed almost half a year later on SciFi, and then the episodes were cut for ads. So to get them when they aired, you had to find alternative ways, and those were slow back then. Internet speeds were not fast in 2005, and compression wasn't great either. I remember pulling back AVI files and playing them on a Playstation 3. At the time, they couldn't handle MKV files. And it took a long time.

For classic Doctor Who, we had omnibus on our PBS stations.

Region locking content has never made sense to me, especially now that bandwidth speeds are so much faster.

 

[JD]

It was thestandard back then for the delay, but with the raise of streaming it seems like more and more shows are being released at the same time everywhere.

 

[camdudetenger2018]

there are probley some alternate earths in the mutliverse where doctor who is still with in a tag team with disney

while there are probley some other alternate earths also in the mutliverse where doctor who never teamed up with disney

 

[The Wormhole]

The multiverse also includes some alternate realities where I am currently wearing pants. Consider the implications.

And no, I will not clarify if I am referring to the American or British definition of "pants."

 

[bdub76]

It was thestandard back then for the delay, but with the raise of streaming it seems like more and more shows are being released at the same time everywhere.

This is how it should be.

I'm almost done with season 13 of Father Brown. One more episode to go. Not a huge delay here with BritBox.

 

[camdudetenger2018]

The multiverse also includes some alternate realities where I am currently wearing pants. Consider the implications.

And no, I will not clarify if I am referring to the American or British definition of "pants."

lol lol

 

[JD]

This is how it should be.

I'm almost done with season 13 of Father Brown. One more episode to go. Not a huge delay here with BritBox.

My mom and I just watched episode 10, which appears to be the season finale, this morning.