Spearhead on BluRay - 15/07/13

[Stuart Wallis]

But that's exactly what they do with non-linear grading thingies, didn't you know?

[Dirk Gently]

I might be buying my first Blu-Ray next year.

[Logo Polish]

Ironically, they didn't say one thing that might have sold it to lots of fans - "We've put the TARDIS materilisation sound back the way everyone wants it this time"

According to Mark Ayres, they've retained the transmitted version of that sound for this release.

[SiHart]

Interesting article here on the bluray: http://www.bbcstudiosandpostproducti...03_dr_who.html

[Nyder]

Thanks for that Si. I see they use the Diamant DustBuster for their cleaning up. Sounds like I could do with that for my flat!

[SiHart]

Apparently none of the extras on the recent DVD are coming over to the Blu Ray edition. It's all new extras:

A DANDY AND A CLOWN - THE LIFE OF JON PERTWEE - 42m 25s
CARRY ON - THE LIFE OF CAROLINE JOHN - 29m 7s
SPEARHEAD FROM SPACE - HD RESTORATION 2m 11s
DOCTOR WHO (1969 JON PERTWEE TITLE ELEMENTS) 22m 35s

(these are the first bits passed by the BBFC this week)

[SiHart]

Cheeky!

[Si Hunt]

A good documentary on Jon is long overdue.

Si.

[Nyder]

Well that's my birthday present sorted!

[Dirk Gently]

The Five Doctor's was my first ever DVD purchase, this may well be my first ever Blu-Ray purchase.

I love that vid.

[SiHart]

[Si Hunt]

OMG What's up with Pertwee's eyes??

Si.

[SiHart]

They're HD!

[Andrew Curnow]

They'll come in very useful on the planet Delphon 2, where they communicate with their eyes.

[brandynigma]

Australian Ratings Boxes ruin EVERY design. Dumb gigantic colour coded nonsense!

Humph!

Looking forward to the release though- I thought DWM had confirmed it came with the DVD extras too?

[SiHart]

No, the DVD extras aren't being ported over apparently.

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[Si Hunt]

I hope they re-issue it with extras.

Si.

[Stuart Wallis]

Or less-scary eyes...

[SiHart]

And the UK version.

[Rob McCow]

The Third Doctor in High Definition, for the First Time, for the Last Time

Also - Yay no roundels!

[Si Hunt]

We'll get this and be £13.99p lighter and it will go on the shelf and the old(er) one will go in the charity shop pile and we'll watch it and it will look absolutely no different and oh what's the point? Spearhead on Blu-ray makes me hate our rich, selfish, Western civilisation.

Si.

[Rob McCow]

I don't quite understand why people are so upset about this. I know it's about the 5th time Spearhead From Space has been released in one form or another, but as the only HD old series story, it's a nice enough novelty.

[Simon R]

We can't get rid of the DVD version as the Blu-Ray won't fit in with the rest of the range...

[Andrew Curnow]

For m'self, I've only ever had the old 'feature-length' video version (and that was pretty ropey) and have some how managed to always miss it on its various TV showings... so on the basis of not having watched Spearhead in probably 15 years (could be longer) I'm really rather looking forward to a late birthday present with this one.

"How terribly exciting" to coin a phrase... )

[Dave Tudor]

Look, is it just me or should HD really stand for HIGHER Definition, since the BBC launched the world's first HIGH Definition television service in 1936? So it's not The Third Doctor in High Definition for the first time ever is it?

I am looking forward to seeing this Blu-Ray one day, though.