I bought every single Doctor Who VHS video
and then they started releasing them on DVD. I still have all the VHS ones and my DVD collection is almost complete. I just KNOW that the



CUNTS



will find another format to - oh bugger, Blu-ray.

And that'll be superseded by summat else, and so on and so on I'll never catch up.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Serve me right for being such a mong.
(Dr Skagra glorious glargzhem, Mon 6 Aug 2012, 22:16, 26 replies)

Planned obsolescence
A few years before compact discs hit the market, I graduated in chemistry. The last few lectures were given by the head of the chemistry department and were not about chemistry. One of his observations was that although stereophonic recording had been around since the 1920s and long play vinyl records had been a real commercial possibility since the late 1940s, the industry waited until the market for 78 rpm records was just about saturated. So they introduced them about 1955-56 and dropped 78s. Result! Music lovers went out and bought new phonographs and new records.

FM radio - invented in the 1930s,one FM "trial" station in Sydney Aust. in 1960 but not general until the late 1970s here. Now everybody has an AM-FM radio, let's introduce digital.

Same with television.

Do you want to talk about successive versions of Windows which are not backward compatible?
(Redemption blamed it on the Bossa Nova since, Mon 6 Aug 2012, 23:37, closed)

No

(Dr Skagra glorious glargzhem, Tue 7 Aug 2012, 0:15, closed)

Thought not

(Redemption blamed it on the Bossa Nova since, Tue 7 Aug 2012, 1:59, closed)

I'm totally chucking out all my CDs and converting all my music to mp3.
Because, of course, there'll be programs capable of decoding those in fifteen years time.
( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Tue 7 Aug 2012, 9:43, closed)

I downloaded them all for free

( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Tue 7 Aug 2012, 8:00, closed)

Winrar!

(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Tue 7 Aug 2012, 9:03, closed)

I just bought my second terabyte hard drive
they're so much neater than shelves and shelves of tapes or discs, plus our TV is networked so I can access the contents without even getting up
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Tue 7 Aug 2012, 9:27, closed)

U r sooo lazy.
& I envy u.
I've plugged a wireless router into the back of my tv and tried to bridge the connection. To no avail.
I'm really not keen on getting up in the ceiling and trailing cat5 all over the household.
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Tue 7 Aug 2012, 10:06, closed)

i think it would add a certain interesting style to the house.

( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Tue 7 Aug 2012, 10:14, closed)

I'm wondering if you know exactly what
you are talking about.
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Tue 7 Aug 2012, 10:16, closed)

I'm very lucky as our landlord's son is a network engineer
so there's a rack server in the hall and at least 2 cat-5 points in every room - it makes it very easy to get everything talking to each other
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Tue 7 Aug 2012, 10:18, closed)

What about using powerline networking?
Something along the lines of these might be ideal.
(the_leander, Wed 8 Aug 2012, 16:38, closed)

'Dr Who' is a terminally shit children's programme.
I wouldn't get too upset about this if I were you.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 7 Aug 2012, 8:31, closed)

This is a fair representation of all Dr.Who fans, I feel:
NSFW
(Spleep Shit, or get off the internet., Tue 7 Aug 2012, 8:38, closed)

GAH!
mind bleach please

(I thought NSFW meant "click here for clunge and titties")
( brown-wings Made with three kinds of butter, Tue 7 Aug 2012, 14:03, closed)

It is indeed very very shit
what's really embarrassing is that it is generally regarding to be Britain's 'premier' tv show. Quite shameful when you compare it to the best that the US has to offer.
(TheManWithThePlan cussed your mum on, Tue 7 Aug 2012, 9:28, closed)

I'd rather watch an Albanian game show than that bollocks.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 7 Aug 2012, 9:40, closed)

to enjoy this show
you really have to be retardis
(TheManWithThePlan cussed your mum on, Tue 7 Aug 2012, 10:07, closed)

You know,
i've not watched a lot of dr who, can you sum up for me what it is that drives you to want to own all of it?
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Tue 7 Aug 2012, 10:06, closed)

EVERYTHING AFTER CHRISTOPHER ECCLESTON IS SHIT

( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Tue 7 Aug 2012, 10:28, closed)

The change to Blu-ray is primarily driven by high definition video and audio, something old episodes of Doctor Who won't benefit from. I think your DVD collection will be definitive for a while yet, at least until the disc rot sets in and you have to buy new copies.
(EnemyBiscuits, Tue 7 Aug 2012, 10:30, closed)

My mate is most insistent that films from the 70s and 80s which have now been released on BluRay contain incredible levels of detail most of which couldn't possibly have been present on the original film.
I think that either a) he's admitting just how crap and blurry his old TV was or b) he's frantically trying to justify to himself and everyone else spending a small fortune on equipment and buying every film yet again, having only just finished replacing all his VHS with DVD.
( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Tue 7 Aug 2012, 10:36, closed)

If a film was shot in 70mm then Blu Ray would be more accurate to the original
If it was standard 35mm film then yes, DVD is as good as it would get without adding extra sharpening effects.
( HappyToast Groat froth, Tue 7 Aug 2012, 10:44, closed)

American shows were shot on film
However cost cutting meant that most British shows (Doctor Who included) were shot on video tape, so I doubt they would benefit from a blu ray transfer.
(rogers nelson is the unexpected item in your bagging area, Tue 7 Aug 2012, 15:32, closed)

Transfer your VHS tapes to disc

(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Tue 7 Aug 2012, 11:58, closed)

But he might miss the added costume detail that's in the DVD picture
You know, the unconvincing tinfoil-suited robots and latex-covered aliens.
( Snappyuk gets BIGGER with free sample., Tue 7 Aug 2012, 12:57, closed)