Classic british TV shows

[Jac0b]

This is just a thread where you guys can discuss classic british TV shows to come on blu ray, personally I would love a release of "The Royle Family" on blu ray. Please post you suggestions below

[garlad]

Originally Posted by ProfJacob

This is just a thread where you guys can discuss classic british TV shows to come on blu ray, personally I would love a release of "The Royle Family" on blu ray. Please post you suggestions below

Not very old, but already a classic - The Office

[Baker1000]

Only Fools and Horses. What else?

[McCrutchy]

Benny Hill
Flying Circus
Fawlty Towers
Edge of Darkness
Cracker (all of them)
Father Ted
Are You Being Served?
Keeping Up Appearances (highly unlikely)

[DCSholtis]

Dad's Army {VERY highly unlikely but hey one can dream.....}

[md99]

Never going to happen but the complete Steptoe & Son collection and two movies.

[uk-guy]

on the buses
in sickness and in health
the Sweeney
till death us do part
colditz
some mothers do Ave Em

films of sitcom.
on the buses=35.mm
mutiny on the buses=35.mm
holiday on the buses=35.mm
I suppose one day these could come on blu-ray

[HotRats]

Only Fools & Horses with all the music cuts restored.
Fawlty Towers
UFO
Ultraviolet
Underworld
The Singing Detective
Pennies From Heaven
The Avengers
Edge Of Darkness
The Sweeney
Minder

[uk-guy]

16.mm was always the preferred film format as the BBC is public funded. cost
was important many of the spin off films used 35.mm. I don't think these classic shows will ever reach HD the time and money involved even if it was possible
to convert these shows to HD would be time consuming and very costly sadly
with the BBC having the largest film and television archive in the world and BBC
budgets already squeezed it just is not going to happen.

what's the future for these shows?
the BBC will more likely clean these TV shows up to the best of there ability and ring the last pound out of selling these on box sets. Xmas is always the best time to buy these they are nearly always inexpensive and cheap to produce. when DVD finally kicks the bucket and it will. digital downloads will be the future. already the UK broadcasters are archiving most of there classic shows and documentaries, project canvas aka iptv is set to launch 2010 with
most of the archive of the 3 main broadcasters planned to be available for streamed download and for the world there on-line services becoming digital shops for those around the world to buy or subscribe to

[Pyoko]

Very few of these will ever be on Blu-ray, or really benefit from it, for the simple reason that many were filmed entirely, or to a large extent, on SD video. Standard procedure seems to have been to do outdoor/location shoots on 16mm, and studio shoots on video. So even if they could rescan the film sections in high definition, the rest would still look as crappy as ever, so there would be little point to it all.

[samdaman94]

I'm Alan Partridge

[Blu_Ray_UK2007]

I'd love a boxset of OFAH and The Royle Family.. but let's face it, the quality wont be much better then it is on DVD.

[samdaman94]

They showed the most recent Royle Family episode on BBCHD over christmas, quality was AMAZING. Looked completely different to the old series.

[Sgtpepper27]

Probably not happen but I'd love to see

Blackadder
Red Dwarf