Doctor Who: The Sixth Series - November 22, 2011 - Review

[PUsokrJosh305]

Originally Posted by Talal86

^ thanks, very helpful!

is the price always like this? 49.99 for one complete season?

Not always, I got both series 5 and 6 for $20 each from Best Buy last year right before Christmas, and I got the David Tennant Specials from BBC America for $30 not too long ago, so basically you have to keep an eye out on the prices, even series 1-4 DVD sets can go on sale from time to time if you plan on owning the entire reboot collection

[Rizor]

As mentioned, Best Buy ran a really good BBC promo around the holidays when Seasons 5 & 6 were $20 each. Barnes & Noble typically runs a 50% off British TV sale twice a year and you can typically stack coupons to get them around $30 each.

[dustin1084]

Picked this up for $20 after using a $5 reward cert at best buy yesterday. Finally hit my price mark.

[lordmorpheus72]

Originally Posted by Jason One

I can report another successful exchange experience. I mailed all six discs to the Burbank PO box on April 12, and received my new discs on April 23. I recorded all of the old and new disc matrix numbers. All are different, so they definitely replaced every disc.

I would encourage everyone to take advantage of this replacement offer. There doesn't seem to be much general awareness of the problem with this release, nor of the exchange program.

Thanks for this! Afetr about 4 weeks of emailing back and forth, I got an address to send mine to, and got them back in a little under 2 weeks, with a $10 Amazon gift card! Pretty cool.

Thanks again for the heads up on this.

[Asuras]

Anybody know anything about this re-release of the sixth series with less disc count

https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Docto...Blu-ray/91496/

http://www.amazon.com/Doctor-Who-The...=B00HETFP2S&m=

[StingingVelvet]

Originally Posted by Asuras

Anybody know anything about this re-release of the sixth series with less disc count

https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Docto...Blu-ray/91496/

http://www.amazon.com/Doctor-Who-The...=B00HETFP2S&m=

It's the version from the 1-7 box set I believe. Those versions had a lower disc count and were in 1080p, not 1080i (and slowed down because of it).

[Asuras]

Is being slowed down a good or bad thing? Is it a big improvement over the original release? And why wasn't the 5th series re-released in the same way? Just curious about this since I don't remember reading about this getting released. Now I see it on Best Buy too: http://www.bestbuy.com/site/doctor-w...&skuId=4058006

[Nailwraps]

Originally Posted by Asuras

Is being slowed down a good or bad thing? Is it a big improvement over the original release?

Well it depends. In this case, the Doctor Who Blu-rays (minus the 1080i releases) are slowed down to 24fps, but the audio pitch has been corrected to match it's original PAL counterpart.

Now Wallace and Gromit (since the 2004 DreamWorks DVD), have received new NTSC/24fps masters, but the audio was not corrected, resulting in a lower pitch.

Now, I don't mind PAL material being slowed down/fully transferred to NTSC so long as the original pitch is correct.

[nbdelboy]

appreciate i'm resurrecting an old thread here, but does anybody have any information on the disc replacement programme for the complete sixth series set? i read about it existing over on the recent s1-4 blu-ray thread but have no details on the error! might be wasting my time like, i'm not sure if they'd provide a replacement disc so many years later