[200p]

Which of these BBC TV programmes / programmes shown on the BBC do you own on DVD or have ever bought/owned on DVD?

This poll is about programmes made or part made/financed by the BBC.

* note this poll is about DVDs and NOT about Blu-ray titles

(this is the second try at posting this poll and I'm trying with less options than before).

Please ignore all the options after Life on Mars everyone, I had more options to enter but I was getting very short of time and had to make sure that I entered all the options within the 2 minute time limit, so I just entered something quickly for those because if I had gone to 2 minutes there wouldn't have been any poll at all on this thread like what happened with my previous try.

[StevieBuck]

I think you may have to re-think this one. This is a poll, hence you can only vote once & select one option.

[200p]

You're right I meant to make it a multiple choice poll. I already failed to enter the options on a previous try at making this poll so that thread didn't have a poll at all, and as you can see I ran out of time entering all the valid options on this one, If I had entered them I'd have gone past the 2 minute limit . And it doesn't let you edit polls as far as I can tell (though I'm going to ask a moderator if it's possible).

But even though it's not a multiple choice poll, and if I can't edit it, if you own any of the above DVDs, please select one of the ones you own from the list.

[Marc]

Originally Posted by 200p

You're right I meant to make it a multiple choice poll. I already failed to enter the options on a previous try at making this poll so that thread didn't have a poll at all, and as you can see I ran out of time entering all the valid options on this one, If I had entered them I'd have gone past the 2 minute limit . And it doesn't let you edit polls as far as I can tell (though I'm going to ask a moderator if it's possible).

But even though it's not a multiple choice poll, and if I can't edit it, if you own any of the above DVDs, please select one of the ones you own from the list.

a mod can recreate it for you if you ask, i had the same problem a while back, the timeout is a pain in the bum for long polls.

[neroon]

Men behaving badly

Game on

[Rasczak]

Originally Posted by 200p

Which of these BBC TV programmes / programmes shown on the BBC do you own on DVD or have ever bought/owned on DVD?

This poll is about programmes made or part made/financed by the BBC.

* note this poll is about DVDs and NOT about Blu-ray titles

From the list just Doctor Who (New): Season 1 however, from memory, the BBC TV series I own on DVD are:

- All Creatures Great and Small
- All the King's Men
- Austwitz: The NAZIS and the Final Solution
- Blackadder
- Blakes 7
- By The Sword Divided
- Cambridge Spies
- Charles II: Power & Passion
- Coast
- Dad's Army
- Day of the Triffids
- D-Day 6.6.44
- Dirty War
- Doctor Who (Classic) - all those released to date except for a few very early Hartnell/Troughton stories
- Doctor Who (New)
- Duchess of Duke Street
- Dunkirk (Docu-Drama)
- Elizabeth R
- Gunpowder, Treason & Plot
- Henry VIII and his Six Wives
- Hitch-Hikers Guide To The Galaxy
- I, Claudius
- The Long Firm
- NAZIS: A Warning From History
- Neverwhere
- One Foot In The Grave
- The Onedin Line
- Red Dwarf
- Road to War
- Secret Army
- Survivors
- Tenko
- The Tripods
- War in the Atlantic
- War in the East
- War of the Century
- Virgin Queen

...probably a fair few others I have forgotten Some have been upgraded and brought on Blu-ray (Pride & Prejudice) and so are not listed as per the OP's instructions. And there are loads of others that the BBC has some financial share in, e.g. Rome, Band of Brothers etc etc

[PoochJD]

Hi,

Not on your list, and not mentioned so far, but I own:

Monty Python's Flying Circus (Complete Series 1-4)

The Vicar Of Dibley (Complete Series Set)

Monkey Dust (Series 1)

Maid Marian And Her Merry Men (Complete Series Boxed Set)


Pooch

[nwgarratt]

Men Behaving Badly, Red Dwarf and Band of Brothers if that is included.

[Damo121]

The Wild West

D-DAY 6.6.44

[cas398]

Only Only Fools & Horses 26 Disc set for me, love it.

I quite fancy Galapagos, Blue Planet and Dads Army, not much else though.

[brian s]

Originally Posted by 200p

* note this poll is about DVDs and NOT about Blu-ray titles

Why not Blu-Ray? I have Torchwood, Being Human and a Dr Who on BD.

Bri

[200p]

Originally Posted by brian s

Why not Blu-Ray? I have Torchwood, Being Human and a Dr Who on BD.

Bri

I think when I made this poll (which is still not multiple choice ), one of the reasons for it was so we could get an idea of how popular different BBC/BBC made/financed DVDs were and a you'd get a very rough idea of relatively how many Dvds need to be sold for a title for it to get a Blu-ray release. Though the fact that the poll isn't multiple choice isn't helping (I did ask for it to be changed ).

[Sonic67]

No Top Gear, there's loads of there DVDs about.

[ChasH]

Originally Posted by Sonic67

No Top Gear, there's loads of there DVDs about.

But they're all on Dave. Every day, Every Month, Every Year!


The Office complete
Yes Minister complete
Yes Prime Minister complete
House Of Cards
Tinker Taylor Soldier Spy
Smiley's People
The Perfect Spy
The State Within
State Of Play
Auschwitz: The Final Solution
The Nazis: A Warning From History
Spooks 1
Spooks 2
Spooks 3


I think that's all

[brian s]

Originally Posted by 200p

you'd get a very rough idea of relatively how many Dvds need to be sold for a title for it to get a Blu-ray release.

Not everything the BBC has put out will be suitable for a Blu-Ray release. As an example the new Dr Who has all been shot on standard def video until this year's specials. So I have all the box set DVDs of all the new Who but I have the Blu-Ray of Planet Of The Dead. A lot of HD titles are being released on both formats at around the same time. I will nearly always buy the BD over the DVD.

Cheers
Bri

[nwgarratt]

Originally Posted by brian s

Not everything the BBC has put out will be suitable for a Blu-Ray release. As an example the new Dr Who has all been shot on standard def video until this year's specials. So I have all the box set DVDs of all the new Who but I have the Blu-Ray of Planet Of The Dead. A lot of HD titles are being released on both formats at around the same time. I will nearly always buy the BD over the DVD.

Cheers
Bri

I didn't realise Who was not HD until this year. That saves me waiting for the Blu seasons then. I am getting Torchwood on Blu though. S2 and S3 just needs to be cheaper.

[200p]

Originally Posted by brian s

Not everything the BBC has put out will be suitable for a Blu-Ray release. As an example the new Dr Who has all been shot on standard def video until this year's specials. So I have all the box set DVDs of all the new Who but I have the Blu-Ray of Planet Of The Dead. A lot of HD titles are being released on both formats at around the same time. I will nearly always buy the BD over the DVD.

Cheers
Bri

I think even standard definition shot releases would benefit from being released on Blu-ray. 28 Days Later was mostly shot with a PAL DV camcorder and that's on Blu-ray. Things shot on Super 16 film are released on Blu-ray, even though the BBC doesn't think Super 16 is good enough for HDTV.

A standard definition PAL DVD will be upscaled by a player to about 5x the number pixels (for full HD TVs), and on current HDTVs, depending on viewing distance this will make any problems with the encode stand out more. Also I think DVDs like Blu-ray are encoded with 4:2:0 colour, so will look worse when upscaled 5x. And DVDs use mpeg2 at a lower bitrate than Blu-ray. With Blu-ray SD titles could be stored with higher quality, at a higher bitrate (so less visible compression artefacts on HDTVs) and let you have more episodes of something on one disc, so would take up less discs & space. I'd rather buy a series on 1 or 2 Blu-ray discs than the same one on 5-6 DVDs, especially if the Blu-ray version was higher quality & had a higher bitrate and was about the same price.

[brian s]

200p

I agree that standard def material would most likely benefit from a BD release. As you say they would have a better bitrate and there would be fewer discs. I think it'll be a very long time before we see such releases if at all. I think the average person in the street is already confused enough as it is without such releases to muddy the waters further. In short they'd expect the main content of a BD to be HD rather than SD.

It's a subject that's been discussed quite a bit on the Forums but I'm not aware of any plans to release all SD BDs.

nwgarratt

Who was made in standard def because of the expense involved. Now that it's a huge success they decided to go HD. All live action Who will be HD from Planet Of The Dead onwards.I don't know if the animated story Dreamland is SD or HD. It should be broadcast sometime after the next live action Who.

Torchwood has been HD from the start as it has far fewer sfx shots. The Sarah Jane Adventures are in HD from the third series which is now being shown on BBC1 on Thursdays and Fridays.

All the best
Bri