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Galaxy 4 blu-ray & dvd announced

zarkon

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Mirror rumour was true. :) These seem to be coming out at a fair old clip now.

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Set to come out 15th of November (only two months after Evil!), available for preorder now, load of links here:

https://www.doctorwho.tv/news/?arti...et-announcement-first-doctor-william-hartnell

UK has a third version (bd steelbook, not stated if it has additional content, but recent ones haven't), not sure about other places.

features:
  • Remastered surviving original of Episode 3
  • Remastered surviving clip from Episode 1
  • Telesnap reconstructions of Episodes 1, 2 and 4.
  • Audio commentaries
  • A Making Of documentary
  • A Finding Galaxy 4 documentary
  • Photo gallery
  • Production subtitles
 
I've only watched a fan reconstruction of the serial once more than a decade ago but it didn't leave much of an impression. That doesn't necessarily mean much because my opinion of Enemy of the World skyrocketed when its missing episodes were found.

Looks like they're going to take full advantage of the animation medium and make the setting very picturesque. Also, it's curious that they decided to do it in color when I'm pretty sure all of the previous animations have been in black and white.

And like previous releases, I'm assuming us Americans are going to have to wait a fucking year or so. Why that's still a policy in this day and age is beyond me (let alone ever at all!). :rolleyes:
 
The Nth Doctor said:
Looks like they're going to take full advantage of the animation medium and make the setting very picturesque. Also, it's curious that they decided to do it in color when I'm pretty sure all of the previous animations have been in black and white.
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?

The last animation designed for black & white was Power of the Daleks in 2016, and its later special edition (which only got a colourisation due to the request of BBC America after the fact, which didn't even make it into the later special edition).

The five they've done since 2019 have all been in colour. Some or all of them had a b/w option, but it was no longer how they were designed.
 
Damn, really? Either I haven't watched the last few or my memory has gotten worse! :lol:

I'm pretty sure the last one I watched was Power of the Daleks. No, wait, The Macra Terror.
 
Macra was the first one properly designed with colour :D

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And since then Faceless Ones, Fury, the one ep of Web, this month's Evil of the Daleks and November's Galaxy 4 are all colour.
 
zarkon said:
Macra was the first one properly designed with colour :D

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And since then Faceless Ones, Fury, the one ep of Web, this month's Evil of the Daleks and November's Galaxy 4 are all colour.
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Damn.

Stupid memory. :(

Actually, come to think of it. Perhaps I chose to watch it black and white if that was indeed an option. And then presently burned the idea of it being in color out of my memory! Yeah, that's the ticket! :lol:

I haven't seen any of the others yet. Probably still waiting for them to be released here. :p
 
Is it just me, or are the blu-rays only usually available in the UK? I only ever seem to see DVDs for the animated lost episodes on Amazon in Canada.
 
Being in the US, I've imported a handful of UK and Australian blu-ray releases of titles that weren't available in Region A, after doing research and finding that the UK and Australian releases of those titles were all-region (sometimes even if the label specified Region B, testing by reviewers would confirm that a disc was actually all-region).
In this case, it looks like this will be Region B only (and they are probably getting more stringent about the disc actually being locked to the region coding stated on the label).
One reason I like the 4K UHD disc format is because they aren't region-locked.

Kor
 
I thought that the day of region locked movies mostly ended with the introduction of Blu Rays. Doctor Who/the BBC being the ones to try to bring the era back is annoying. Luckily my interest in the animated DVDs was pretty much killed by them being UK exclusive for what feels like a year after release, plus the fact that they've generally picked really mediocre stories to animate doesn't help (I still regret buying The Faceless Ones, it might be the most boring 2nd Doctor story ever, I've never even bothered to finish it).

They could probably lure me back with The Highlanders or The Dalek's Master Plan, but besides that I'm kind of just done with the animated stuff.
 
As they'll almost certainly all be included in the Collection Blu-Rays when they finally run out of the other five Doctor's seasons, I'm not too worried about missing out at the moment.
 
kirk55555 said:
I thought that the day of region locked movies mostly ended with the introduction of Blu Rays. Doctor Who/the BBC being the ones to try to bring the era back is annoying.
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Do you mean UHD? Blu Ray's still have tons of region locked releases. My BD mod requires me to "set" a region, so I constantly find myself having to ping pong between A and B because of discs being locked. Just did it yesterday to watch a movie from the US Abbot & Costello at universal set.
 
zarkon said:
Do you mean UHD? Blu Ray's still have tons of region locked releases. My BD mod requires me to "set" a region, so I constantly find myself having to ping pong between A and B because of discs being locked. Just did it yesterday to watch a movie from the US Abbot & Costello at universal set.
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I thought I'd heard of most Blu Rays being region free, at least from people in the US who import from places like Japan and Europe. I've never really needed to do it myself, so region locking might be more common for Blu Rays then I thought.
 
kirk55555 said:
I thought I'd heard of most Blu Rays being region free, at least from people in the US who import from places like Japan and Europe. I've never really needed to do it myself, so region locking might be more common for Blu Rays then I thought.
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Some titles will play in all three regions but some are locked to one. For instance, Criterion locks all their North American blu-ray releases to Region A, and all of their UK blu-ray releases to Region B.

So If I'm thinking of getting an imported blu-ray, I always research it first to see if it will be playable in Region A.

Kor
 
kirk55555 said:
I thought I'd heard of most Blu Rays being region free, at least from people in the US who import from places like Japan and Europe. I've never really needed to do it myself, so region locking might be more common for Blu Rays then I thought.
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To add to what Kor says, Japan & the US are in the same region (A), so if you were to be importing, say, JP Kamen Rider blu rays for instance, you'd never have an issue :D
 
Kor said:
Some titles will play in all three regions but some are locked to one. For instance, Criterion locks all their North American blu-ray releases to Region A, and all of their UK blu-ray releases to Region B.

So If I'm thinking of getting an imported blu-ray, I always research it first to see if it will be playable in Region A.

Kor
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zarkon said:
To add to what Kor says, Japan & the US are in the same region (A), so if you were to be importing, say, JP Kamen Rider blu rays for instance, you'd never have an issue :D
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But that's the thing: We shouldn't have to be jumping through all these hoops and over all these hurdles. It's so damn absurd.
 
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