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Originally Posted by -shadow-
Aren't those trailers also available in the correct speed, why would they ever ask for the 24Hz versions?
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The next time trailers were cut from the original Series 5 boxset. This was a big annoyance to fans who want the episodes included on the boxsets as broadcast (next time trailers included). This Steelbook is officially the first home release of Series 5 in the UK to feature the next time trailers, meaning UK fans can finally watch the epic coming soon trailer at the end of The Eleventh Hour without resorting to Netflix or importing from the US.
As most fans can’t tell the difference between the episodes being in 24p or 50i, or don’t really care, BBC probably thinks they can get away with it as it’s cheaper to reuse the 24p blu-Ray master with the next time trailers made for the Series 1-7 and Complete Matt Smith Years boxsets in the US (the UK Series 1-7 set uses the 50i version).
In fact, the disc layout and content for the series 5 Steelbook is identical to the Complete Matt Smith Years boxset. And as that used less discs, it was probably a matter of it being cheaper and giving fans what they were demanding (the next time trailers). Series 6 and 7 will probably be the same because it’s cheaper and because the 24p versions fix a lot of issues the 50i versions had (despite having their own problems). Basically it’s cheaper to print 4 discs than it is to print 6 and to use “one size fits all” for every region in terms of the included version of the episode.