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Old 31-12-2015, 09:05
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My preorder for complete season 9 comes to £31.49, probably about what it will cost to get the separate part 2 and 2015 special. I would have bought part 2 if it had the extras and husbands of river song on it but not now. Going to end up with a redundant copy of season 9 part 1 which is a bit annoying. Will end up swapping it for a film in cex or something.
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Old 31-12-2015, 10:56
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I've been using Chapters/Indigo bookstore gift cards to round out my Region 1 DVD collection. Just logged on to Chapters to add funds and EVERY single DW title is listed as "no longer available online". Damn.

Fortunately, Amazon still has the few that I need, but I wonder how much time I have before the R1 library is completely out of print...
I don't know, but could you be more specific, please? I am in Region 1 (Texas) and I am still working on my Doctor Who DVDs/Blu-Rays.
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Old 31-12-2015, 17:49
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My preorder for complete season 9 comes to £31.49, probably about what it will cost to get the separate part 2 and 2015 special. I would have bought part 2 if it had the extras and husbands of river song on it but not now. Going to end up with a redundant copy of season 9 part 1 which is a bit annoying. Will end up swapping it for a film in cex or something.
I suppose the separate release of The Husbands of River Song makes it possible to have Series 9 parts 1 and 2 and avoid double dipping.

Isn't it cheaper to buy part two and THoRS than buy the full series 9, given you already have part one? You'd avoid having to sell or exchange part one.
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Old 31-12-2015, 23:00
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I suppose the separate release of The Husbands of River Song makes it possible to have Series 9 parts 1 and 2 and avoid double dipping.

Isn't it cheaper to buy part two and THoRS than buy the full series 9 given you already have part one? You'd avoid having to sell or exchange part one.
Going off the bbx shop price for the dvd. My pre order for the complete set is £31.49. The part 2 set is £17.25, husbands of river song £10.99. 10% discount and £4 exchange from cex for my part 1 set and £2 exchange for the last Christmas dvd i already have then it will cost me 8p extra to get the complete series.
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Old 01-01-2016, 16:56
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I don't know, but could you be more specific, please? I am in Region 1 (Texas) and I am still working on my Doctor Who DVDs/Blu-Rays.
I just need Keys of Marinus, Genesis ot Daleks, Destiny ot Daleks, and City of Death. But I'm out of luck with Web Planet, which was on the list of discontinued R1 titles you used to post.
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Old 02-01-2016, 01:24
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I just need Keys of Marinus, Genesis ot Daleks, Destiny ot Daleks, and City of Death. But I'm out of luck with Web Planet, which was on the list of discontinued R1 titles you used to post.
Yeah. I will need to dig that list out of the old thread.

Once I found out that those titles were out of print, I waited a year to see if they were going to release them as Special Editions (which is the only reason that it made sense to me to take them out of print). Once I realized that they were not going to release them that way (after about a year or so), I went ahead, bit the bullet and bought them over the course of fifteen months (about one a month). They probably cost me an average of $80 each, but I really, really wanted to have a complete collection.
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Old 02-01-2016, 17:27
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I just need Keys of Marinus, Genesis ot Daleks, Destiny ot Daleks, and City of Death. But I'm out of luck with Web Planet, which was on the list of discontinued R1 titles you used to post.
I dont think any region 2 titles are out of print.

So come january all episodes will be out.
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Old 03-01-2016, 07:04
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I dont think any region 2 titles are out of print.

So come january all episodes will be out.
Not Region 2, but about a score of Region 1 DVDs are out of print.
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Old 03-01-2016, 14:48
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Not Region 2, but about a score of Region 1 DVDs are out of print.
if they are all released by the same company they shouldnt be unavailable especially when R2 are from the same company.
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Old 03-01-2016, 17:27
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Not Region 2, but about a score of Region 1 DVDs are out of print.
I assume you are in NTSC land, you can buy the region 2 DVDs, get a cheap portable dvd drive, change its region, then connect your computer's video and audio to your TV (if it's one of the new HDTVs). You can then watch it on your TV even though it would be a region 2 DVD.

If you have more technical know how you can actually rip the DVD convert the video and burn your own region 1 DVD, but that is a lot harder of course. And yes it's legal for your own private use!
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Old 03-01-2016, 17:33
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I suppose the separate release of The Husbands of River Song makes it possible to have Series 9 parts 1 and 2 and avoid double dipping.

Isn't it cheaper to buy part two and THoRS than buy the full series 9, given you already have part one? You'd avoid having to sell or exchange part one.
Its not cheaper if like me you held off buying Last Christmas until now, hoping it would be on the Series 9 complete boxset, which thankfully it is!
Do 4 DVDs/Blurays or 1 complete DVD/Bluray boxset!
It makes up for the fact series 8 boxset was so badly done.
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Old 04-01-2016, 08:36
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if they are all released by the same company they shouldnt be unavailable especially when R2 are from the same company.
But they are. All of these titles are out of print in Region 1:

First Doctor
The Rescue/The Romans
The Web Planet
The Time Meddler
The Gunfighters

Second Doctor
The Invasion
The War Games

Third Doctor
Terror of the Autons
The Time Monster
Planet of the Spiders

Fifth Doctor
Black Orchid
Time-Flight
The Awakening
Frontios
Planet of Fire

Sixth Doctor
The Mark of the Rani
The Two Doctors*

Seventh Doctor
Battlefield
Ghost Light
The Curse of Fenric
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Old 04-01-2016, 09:14
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Blimey! Not one Tom story is missing!
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Old 04-01-2016, 20:44
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Bought part 2 of the last season today on DVD looking forward to re-watching
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Old 05-01-2016, 06:10
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Blimey! Not one Tom story is missing!
That is because he is the most popular Doctor (at least amongst the classic ones) here in the US.
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Old 05-01-2016, 06:15
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With the release of Series 9, Part II in the UK today, the list is now:

The Complete Series 1 Blu-Ray: UK: Released, US: ?
The Complete Series 2 Blu-Ray: UK: Released, US: ?
The Complete Series 3 Blu-Ray: UK: Released, US: ?
The Complete Series 4 Blu-Ray: UK: Released, US: ?
The Underwater Menace (finally!): UK: Released, US: March 1st
Series 9, Part II: UK: Released, US: January 26th
The Husbands of River Song: UK: January 25th, US: February 23rd
The Complete 9th Series: UK: March 7th, US: April 5th
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Old 05-01-2016, 11:53
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With the release of Series 9, Part II in the UK today, the list is now:

The Complete Series 1 Blu-Ray: UK: Released, US: ?
The Complete Series 2 Blu-Ray: UK: Released, US: ?
The Complete Series 3 Blu-Ray: UK: Released, US: ?
The Complete Series 4 Blu-Ray: UK: Released, US: ?
The Underwater Menace (finally!): UK: Released, US: March 1st
Series 9, Part II: UK: Released, US: January 26th
The Husbands of River Song: UK: January 25th, US: February 23rd
The Complete 9th Series: UK: March 7th, US: April 5th
I guess the US release takes longer as everything on the disk either gets converted to 29.97fps or slowed from 25fps to 23.976024fps and pitch corrected (the slow down is as bad as PAL speedup btw that's what they did for Day of the Doctor UK Bluray edition and we all hated it)!

In fact I expect it's the slowdown as it doesn't take any more space on the disk than 25fps and virtual pulldown can be used to make 23.97024 to 29.97 for the DVD version.
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Old 05-01-2016, 12:54
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Something's going on with Amazon and the blu rays of Series 1 to 4. The price of each has shot up to £24.99.

Could it be there's a spike in demand due to the end of the current run and the Christmas special?

I had been hoping they'd drop in price a bit. Just before Christmas they were £18.99, which I thought then was still a bit too expensive.

I picked up series 1 a couple of months ago for, I think, £15.99 "just to see what the PQ was actually like". I already have the series 1-4 boxed set on DVD and wasn't expecting to see any improvement in PQ as they were made in SD, but I have to say, having seen series 1 and compared, there is a marginal improvement in PQ.

Anyway, I guess I'll have to wait a while longer, till the price drops again.
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Old 05-01-2016, 13:16
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I guess the US release takes longer as everything on the disk either gets converted to 29.97fps or slowed from 25fps to 23.976024fps and pitch corrected (the slow down is as bad as PAL speedup btw that's what they did for Day of the Doctor UK Bluray edition and we all hated it)!

In fact I expect it's the slowdown as it doesn't take any more space on the disk than 25fps and virtual pulldown can be used to make 23.97024 to 29.97 for the DVD version.
The 50th being in 3D was the problem, as 3D BD only supports 24fps at full 1080p resolution. The thing people most complained about was a strange distortion of the sound. On my equipment the audio is fine, so I suspect the phasing issue only affected those listening in downmixed stereo (or even mono).

A 4% change in pitch is not noticeable to the vast majority unless you do a side-by-side A/B test.
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Old 07-01-2016, 06:49
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With the release of Series 9, Part II in the UK today, the list is now:

The Complete Series 1 Blu-Ray: UK: Released, US: ?
The Complete Series 2 Blu-Ray: UK: Released, US: ?
The Complete Series 3 Blu-Ray: UK: Released, US: ?
The Complete Series 4 Blu-Ray: UK: Released, US: ?
The Underwater Menace (finally!): UK: Released, US: March 1st
Series 9, Part II: UK: Released, US: January 26th
The Husbands of River Song: UK: January 25th, US: February 23rd
The Complete 9th Series: UK: March 7th, US: April 5th
Also return to devil's end and the white witch of devil's end now due on 30th September 2016. Been waiting for this for far too looooooog
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Old 07-01-2016, 23:45
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Im not suprised the BBC crapped over Menace last year with that shoddy half a recon when they are making animated Dads Army episodes for the store.
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Old 07-01-2016, 23:49
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Petition to get missing episodes animated for dvd https://www.change.org/p/anyone-doct...m_medium=email
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Old 08-01-2016, 09:15
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Also return to devil's end and the white witch of devil's end now due on 30th September 2016. Been waiting for this for far too looooooog
I am still not sure what to make of these. They were not actual Doctor Who serials. Also, I have watched about six release dates for them come and go over the last several years. Why have they not been released as of yet, despite numerous attempts to do as such?
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Old 09-01-2016, 10:08
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I am still not sure what to make of these. They were not actual Doctor Who serials. Also, I have watched about six release dates for them come and go over the last several years. Why have they not been released as of yet, despite numerous attempts to do as such?
All i know is that the bloke who is making the dvd has been busy working on other projects. That update was from November 2014! Heard nothing since. Still keen to get this though as the daemons is my favourite pertwee story.
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Old 12-01-2016, 09:09
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With the release of Series 9, Part II in the UK today, the list is now:

The Complete Series 1 Blu-Ray: UK: Released, US: ?
The Complete Series 2 Blu-Ray: UK: Released, US: ?
The Complete Series 3 Blu-Ray: UK: Released, US: ?
The Complete Series 4 Blu-Ray: UK: Released, US: ?
The Underwater Menace (finally!): UK: Released, US: March 1st
Series 9, Part II: UK: Released, US: January 26th
The Husbands of River Song: UK: January 25th, US: February 23rd
The Complete 9th Series: UK: March 7th, US: April 5th
Nearly 2 month wait?
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