A bit of good news for folks wanting the specials in a box set: BBC Video has announced there will be a box set release for North America on Feb. 2 2010:
http://gallifreynewsbase.blogspot.com/2009/10/waters-of-mars-american-airdates.html
There's already been a report that the UK will see a box set release in January.
Even better news is that the set will indeed include The Next Doctor in both DVD and Blu-Ray editions. There was some talk around here about this not happening because of Next Doctor not being shot in HD, well
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No word on extras. I must assume the Proms concert (with the Music of the Spheres mini-episode) will be included. No word if they're including Dreamland (which I never thought likely anyway).
Including The Next Doctor with the other Specials is likely to intensify the fanboy debate over whether it counts as one of the specials (my personal opinion) or as a coda to Season 4 (which despite being the view put out by RTD makes no narrative sense).
EDIT: I just read the news item again and I'm actually going to step back from calling it a "box set". They're using the words "5-disc collection." That's not necessarily the same thing. They could simply be sellotaping the five releases together like has been done with other "collections". It will still be handy for getting all of them at once, but whether it'll be a formal box set as before, I actually can't tell from this item. This also leaves the question mark over whether Next Doctor will actually be up-converted to Blu-Ray or if they'll just be taking advantage of the players' backwards compatibility and including the standard DVD with the Blu-Rays, effectively creating a combo pak.
Alex
http://gallifreynewsbase.blogspot.com/2009/10/waters-of-mars-american-airdates.html
There's already been a report that the UK will see a box set release in January.
Even better news is that the set will indeed include The Next Doctor in both DVD and Blu-Ray editions. There was some talk around here about this not happening because of Next Doctor not being shot in HD, well
! No word on extras. I must assume the Proms concert (with the Music of the Spheres mini-episode) will be included. No word if they're including Dreamland (which I never thought likely anyway).
Including The Next Doctor with the other Specials is likely to intensify the fanboy debate over whether it counts as one of the specials (my personal opinion) or as a coda to Season 4 (which despite being the view put out by RTD makes no narrative sense).
EDIT: I just read the news item again and I'm actually going to step back from calling it a "box set". They're using the words "5-disc collection." That's not necessarily the same thing. They could simply be sellotaping the five releases together like has been done with other "collections". It will still be handy for getting all of them at once, but whether it'll be a formal box set as before, I actually can't tell from this item. This also leaves the question mark over whether Next Doctor will actually be up-converted to Blu-Ray or if they'll just be taking advantage of the players' backwards compatibility and including the standard DVD with the Blu-Rays, effectively creating a combo pak.
Alex
