Question about Bluray and Dr Who Classic

[Mikey]

Doctor Who The Classic Series is without a doubt the most expensive TV show to purchase on DVD.

This makes me wonder why they haven't started releasing them on Bluray as well.

Is it because most Classic Who's are from video tape and that don't translate well to Bluray ? (meaning, the clearity would not be improved ?)

Either way, it doesn't both me.
I don't have a Bluray player and i'm not planning on getting one.
Just wondering why Dr Who is not being released in this format yet.

[jds1911a1]

Doctor Who The Classic Series is without a doubt the most expensive TV show to purchase on DVD.

This makes me wonder why they haven't started releasing them on Bluray as well.

Is it because most Classic Who's are from video tape and that don't translate well to Bluray ? (meaning, the clearity would not be improved ?)

Either way, it doesn't both me.
I don't have a Bluray player and i'm not planning on getting one.
Just wondering why Dr Who is not being released in this format yet.

exactly they enhanced formatting to make something HD has to be a trasnfer from film media or HD digital video.

Davison put it well on the commentary for enlightenment, eventually the bbc will put out a blue ray where they digitally enhance the video and film insert shots to match in lcarity so the transitions aren't as noticiable (and he thinks the the fans will hate it)

overall HD tv and dvd clairty aren't the best thing for Dr who production values, The older "fuzzy" vhs actually hide the flaws in the sets better. Bthe time we saw a episode on tv it was at least the 3rd generation - original source tape to 71 edited for time to 72 w effects for broadcast (and and on VHS was 4th or more). In north america there was an additional transfer to convert from Uk 625 pal to US 525 ntsc.

with dvd the transfers were taken from the original sources then edited digitally to replicate the steps to make the broadcast version the result is a 1st generation transfer that is cleaner and every poorly cut and painted piece of plywood is highlited for all to see in close up shots

[EMCE Hammer]

I personally hope they use the resources elsewhere. Some things are better through fuzzy goggles. DVD shows plenty of the imperfections already; no need to accent them even more. Use the money to convert the rest of the library to DVD or work on reconstructing some of the lost episodes.

[jds1911a1]

I personally hope they use the resources elsewhere. Some things are better through fuzzy goggles. DVD shows plenty of the imperfections already; no need to accent them even more. Use the money to convert the rest of the library to DVD or work on reconstructing some of the lost episodes.

avoid the cost argument, the cost to upgrade to blu ray isn't that much compared to the cost of restoring older episodes (hence why the BBC has opted for more later epsidodes to dvd already) and they can alomst guarantee sales bumps with a blue ray release (like we have seen with Remembrance of the daleks, and key to time re-released with additional commentaries and the 5 doctor box set reissued the enhanced version with new commentary along with the standard version to drive the price up (if they cared about us the standard release would have been a single dvd release)

[LonnieFisher]

I've been downloading the series...

[mego73]

Doctor Who The Classic Series is without a doubt the most expensive TV show to purchase on DVD.

This makes me wonder why they haven't started releasing them on Bluray as well.

Is it because most Classic Who's are from video tape and that don't translate well to Bluray ? (meaning, the clearity would not be improved ?)

Either way, it doesn't both me.
I don't have a Bluray player and i'm not planning on getting one.
Just wondering why Dr Who is not being released in this format yet.

Exactly, if they were done on Broadcast video (i.e All In The Family) they are "locked" into that old resolution. You could transfer it to HD video but it would offer no improvement (unlike film, which remains inhigher resolution then consumer HD).

With a blu ray disc, you could fit many more hours of standard definition video though. Remember, blu ray is used for HD, because it has larger storage capability than DVD. You could put HD video on DVD but it would not offer much time because you need a lot more bit rate.

Conversely, you could have blu rays that offer standard definition TV shows but could fit maybe 9 to 10 hours of them per disc. You could conceivably fit an entire season of a half hour show on one disc. But then, you would have to make sure it is known that it is standard definition. I think the possible confusion and possible quality complaints keep them from trying this out.

But it would be cool to have the entire run of All In The Family on 8 discs.