Product: Doctor Who [VHS] (1975)
Rating: 4.0
Not the Best Story
This isn't the best Doctor Who story of all time, but what is interesting is that until now this release simply couldn't have happened as the technology to improve the picture quality simply didn't exist. This story only existed as a poor quality US (NTSC) copy, so in order to make it release worth a highly intensive process called Reverse Standards Conversion (RSC) had to take place. This essentially unpicks the picture to return it to it's original PAL glory (for UK release). For the North American release the picture is then converted back to NTSC only using a much more sophisticated technique to that done 30 years ago. The improvements are startling.Of course the release also contains the usual dazzling set of extras.