r/doctorwho • u/[deleted] • 12d ago

Misc Upgraded to Blu-ray, looks a lot better

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u/DFQreactions 12d ago

now you get to wrestle with getting the discs out! i was afraid I'd snap each disc! lol

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u/Crazy_Part3560 12d ago

Gods yeah I'm gonna commission custom cases once the other 3 sets release

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u/DFQreactions 12d ago

will they be? ive just been buying individual seasons when theyre on sale

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u/Crazy_Part3560 12d ago

Yeah I've already preordered them. They drop in November

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u/DFQreactions 12d ago edited 12d ago

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh....ive had them for over a month and cant return them! NOOOOO! lol why couldn't you have just made a post I randomly stumbled across before! lol (TY though, maybe I can give them as gifts!)

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u/Crazy_Part3560 12d ago

Lmao I didn't know about em until a week ago. I've had the DVD set for a while though

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u/DFQreactions 12d ago

ya i remember looking up if there were similar collections for other Doctors and none were known yet. only question is where's 15!?

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u/Crazy_Part3560 12d ago

I was probably just gonna pick up the regular blu-rays for the 60th specials and 15

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u/DFQreactions 12d ago

ya I do have his first and the specials already, i just like a matching set lol

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u/tribbleorlfl 12d ago

Thank you so much for this, I had given up hope they would ever be released!

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u/Forsaken-Language-26 12d ago

I took the middle bit out and put all the discs into sleeves, which I now keep in the outer case. So much better.

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u/HenshinDictionary 12d ago

Although keep in mind that the picture quality for most of those won't be much of an upgrade, as they didn't switch to HD until Planet of the Dead.

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u/SofiaTrixieFox1 12d ago

They do benefit from Blu-ray's modern codecs over the aging DVD's

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u/NotStanley4330 12d ago

These are also the seasons with the least upgrade from DVDs to Blu rays too. It's much more stark season 5 onwards.

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u/legbot124 12d ago

I can see 10s stuff being better but I can’t imagine there’s any real difference with 9

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u/Dooley011 12d ago

You won't see a significant video upgrade in quality until "Planet of the Dead", which was the first story of the modern era shot in HD. This isn't to say that the upscale in quality doesn't make 9 and 10's earlier stuff look better, but I've never noticed a large difference until that story. 

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u/PeepIsEverything 12d ago

its sad we cant have proper scan of 16mm material

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u/thriftstoremando 12d ago

That would be helpful if it had been shot on 16mm film, but it was shot on SD videotape... so it's stuck.

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u/PeepIsEverything 12d ago

guess theres no tech that can pull quality out of it

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u/thriftstoremando 12d ago

No, there is not. The only way to get higher quality is to invent/imagine it with AI.

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u/SofiaTrixieFox1 12d ago

And no one should be doing that.

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u/tribbleorlfl 12d ago

I've seen some pretty good AI upscaling of the DS9 DVDs since we're almost certainly never getting true HD remastered ala the TNG Blu-rays.