Survival released on DVD!

[SiHart]

Wow! What a fantastic package that is going to be. I'm glad to see Search Out Science on there.

I think I'll join you with a Woo and a Hoo of my own!

Si xx

[Larry]

bit of a supprise that it's going to be a double disc release but the extras look pretty good..

[Simon R]

Sophie Aldred looks like Edd the Duck on Matt's cover.

Great list of extras. Search out Science is almost unwatchably awful but we'd never have slept at night if it hadn't been on there. I'm looking forward to seeing Adele Silva's cat flap too.

Second commentary (episode three only). Fan commentary from the winners of a recent Doctor Who Magazine competition.

Did they say before it was only on one episode or where they so boring that they had to ditch the first two episodes? I bet they have monotone nasal voices and all try and out do each other with their knowledge.

[Martin Penny]

Oo, those are some good special features! Looking forward to this one!

[Dave Lewis]

I might make this my first Doctor Who DVD... if only to hear Batman At The Controls, Jeno Solar Brother, and Ernest R Soul do their commentary.

[Dave Tudor]

Looks like it's going to be a cracking release - possibly the DVD of the year, already...?

And they've got the Silva too! Woo hoo!!!

[Larry]

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Did they say before it was only on one episode or where they so boring that they had to ditch the first two episodes? I bet they have monotone nasal voices and all try and out do each other with their knowledge.

would you really want to listen to listen to a bunch of geeky anoraks blethering away for 3 episodes..

[Jonno]

I too am pleased to see Search Out Science inlcuded - simply because I've never seen it!

DVD of the year though, Dave? Nah - I'm looking forward to New Beginnings even more...

[Larry]

I too am pleased to see Search Out Science inlcuded - simply because I've never seen it!

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never even heard of it..

[Pip Madeley]

Nice looking set of extras there, worth buying on release - I'd usually wait a few months for 80s stories.

[Andrew Curnow]

The Endgame feature should be interesting I think. And I'm guessing that some of the deleted scenes have come from JN-T's collection, so it'll be interesting to see what's turned up.

[SiHart]

The article is up at the Restoration Team website.

Si xx

[Milky Tears]

The fan commentary (even only one episode) might still be enough to stop me buying this release.

[Pip Madeley]

Come off it, you'll just buy it and leave it shrinkwrapped at the bottom of your wardrobe

[Milky Tears]

I never leave my Doctor Who DVDs shrinkwrapped.

[Ralph]

Not another 80s story!...we're always getting those...

[SiHart]

Don't worry Ralph, I'm sure there'll be a Pertwee release announced soon.

Si xx

[Si Hunt]

There's some more liberties taken with the soundtrack by Mark Ayres:

When building the tracklay for the 5.1 I had the raw dialogue from the '71 edits which I reconformed to the final cut, plus the music and effects reels and music. There were two "winds", one "rumbles" and two "explosions" bands for the cheetah planet on the original effects tapes, but I made up my own additional wind sounds for surrounds (created entirely from treatments of the originals for authenticity) but also made up two totally new stereo rumble and bang tracks. And I lifted some pre-mixes from the surviving international M&E tracks to create loops. Brand new elements were created (again using the original sounds as a basis) for the LFE channel.

Three short bits of character vocalisation still eluded me, so I myself post-synchronised some dialogue, briefly playing two individual characters (I'll leave you to guess) and a crowd of teenagers in a gym.

He'll be overdubbing Sylvester McCoy with his own interpretation of the Doctor next!

Si.

[Perry Vale]

An unbiased judgment there.

I fail to see any "liberties" being taken? It's an optional extra, are you forgetting this....

3 x 25 mins colour episodes with default original stereo audio or optional Dolby Digital 5.1 remix.

[Si Hunt]

For now. As Basil once said "this is exactly how Nazi Germany started!"

Si.

[Si Hunt]

There wasn't a timing issue, there just wasn't much of use. People need to understand that the JNT collection isn't a vast treasure trove of wealth. In most respects it was almost wholly disappointing, with only a few little gems in there.

This seems really odd to me, given the article in a recent DWM suggesting it was a trove of goodies.

Si.

[Perry Vale]

This seems really odd to me, given the article in a recent DWM suggesting it was a trove of goodies.

I haven't actually read the DWM piece, but I'd guess this is meaning that the collection doesn't contain an abundance of deleted scenes/out-takes, but rather photos/scripts/props etc, maybe? That is to say, not much stuff that can be utilised (greatly) on dvd releases.

[Si Hunt]

That's a possibility Steve.

Si.

[Antony Cox]

He'll be overdubbing Sylvester McCoy with his own interpretation of the Doctor next!

It might improve some of the scenes where the Doctor does 'angry'........

[Captain Tancredi]

You manage to make Sophie Aldred more attractive than in real life.

Si.

Now Si, I know we've had our little disagreements in the past, and somehow we've always overcome them, but there's something you need to understand.

Diss my teenage crushes and the gloves'll come off, so help me...