Doctor Who Series 5 Announced on Blu-ray

Blu-ray.com ^ | Posted July 21, 2010 08:14 PM | by Juan Calonge

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Warner Home Video has set a November 9 street date for the Blu-ray release of the BBC series Doctor Who: The Complete Fifth Series, starring Matt Smith as the Next Doctor - after the departure of David Tennant. This series will be presented in six Blu-ray Discs.

Special features include:

• Commentaries
• Two newly-filmed sequences, titled "Meanwhile, in the TARDIS...", available only in this collection
• Doctor Who: Confidentials
• Monster Diaries
• Outtakes
• Video Diaries
• Deleted and extended scenes

Source: TV Shows on DVD | Permalink

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[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

And Fry's today has this special:

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OPTIMUM BD-R 4X 25PK

FRYS.com #: 6150749

Experience a new standard of high-definition clarity !! This Blu-Ray is a "write once," single layer disc,and can record up to 25GB, This disc is designed for use with Blu-Ray Version 1.2 drives and/or recorders and may be written/recorded at 1-4x speed.Capacity may vary depending on hardware conversion.
Limit 1 per Household.
(when purchased between 07/23/2010 and 07/29/2010)

Price:		$33.99
Instant Savings:		$4.00
After Savings:		$29.99

[bd476]

BTTT!

Bumping for Doctor Who but unfortunately I don’t have blue ray.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

And Newegghas:

LG WH10LS30K 10X Blu-ray Burner - LightScribe Support - Bulk - OEM

$109.99 Free Shipping*

It is OEM.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

This may be the sign that the manufacturing plants are about to kick in with competitive vigor.

See the LG product just above....

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Looking at reader comments at newegg:

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Cons: -This is not a consumer product! Support for this drive is officially provided by: LGcommercial
-There are currently no Firmware updates
-LTH technology from Verbatim is currently not supported (if you use Verbatim, don't get LTH for this drive!)
-LG support for this drive seems to be very limitted. I asked for a firmware update for certain features and the reply was very generic and no hope of ever getting one.

Other Thoughts: This would have been a great drive if labled as a Commercial product. I would not recommend to buy it if you are planning to use this product at home. Support seems to be limited to companies only.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

More:

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SAYS OEM, but comes with everything

Pros: For an "OEM" burner, it comes with everything that normally comes with a "RETAIL" one, except a fancy wax-coated box with pretty pictures. It has software to burn BLU-RAYS! That is almost worth the entire cost of the drive. It costs nearly one hundred dollars to purchase software to burn Blu-ray disks. It came with a SATA cable AND a standard Molex to SATA power convertor. Literally everything you need to install and burn away, including one free disk!

Cons: None, whatsoever, except maybe it could be cheaper? I haven't tried to play using this drive, but I already have a Blu-Ray player.

Other Thoughts: Awesome kit. The software included (Cyberlink PowerDVD8) isn't perfect, but it's FREE! It took about 20 minutes to load it all. Within 2 hours of installing it, I had a 24GB Blu-Ray to test. Again, AWESOME. I was able to get 4 hours of HD content on 1 disk at full 1080P resolution.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Today 145 reviews at Newegg:

Customer Reviews for LG WH10LS30K 10X Blu-ray Burner - LightScribe Support - Bulk - OEM

This one answers a question for me:

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7/18/2010 10:16:47 AM Rating + 5

Pros: Bought for use on Linux so lack of software not a problem for me. Drive will burn Verbatim LTH BD-Rs, but only after the drive first fails and the drawer is opened and closed again. I am using K3B (version 2.0.0) on an alpha release of Maverick Kubuntu. Older versions of K3B will not recognize BD-Rs but will burn BD-REs.

Cons: Just as slow burning as previous LG models on LTH BD-Rs (1.5 hours) despite the speed increase for faster discs.

[backwoods-engineer]

Please NO SPOILERS for the season finale! Those of us in America won't see it until this Saturday (Sunday on iTunes).

But I am loving it so far. Two, count 'em two, lovely companions for the 11th Doctor.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Comment:

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Other Thoughts: Just inconsistent in what you get. Some get everything: software, sata cable + power, and 1 BR blank media. Some get nothing but the bare drive.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

pingaroo....

[I still care]

I’m not a fan of the new Amy, but I like River. I really liked Donna and Rose.

Out of the new episodes I thought the Vincent one SO creative, but it lost a little in how they translated it. Imagine - Vincent wasn’t really crazy, he just could see colors and such so perfectly he could see an alien no one else could. What a great concept.

[bd476]

backwoods-engineer wrote: "Please NO SPOILERS for the season finale! Those of us in America won't see it until this Saturday (Sunday on iTunes). But I am loving it so far. Two, count 'em two, lovely companions for the 11th Doctor."

Lol, I know what you mean. No spoilers from me anyway because I don't have cable. I wasn't aware that they are showing it on iTunes. Is it expensive to watch it there?

[bd476]

Thanks for the link, Ernest. Hopefully the manufacturers will become more competitive and drive down the price of Blue Ray players.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Info:

Doctor Who -- From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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The programme depicts the adventures of a mysterious and eccentric humanoid alien known as the Doctor who travels through time and space in his spacecraft, the TARDIS (an acronym for Time And Relative Dimension In Space), which normally appears from the exterior to be a blue 1950s British police box. With his companions, he explores time and space, faces a variety of foes, and rights wrongs.

The programme is listed in Guinness World Records as the longest-running science fiction television show in the world,^[1] and as the "most successful" science fiction series of all time, in terms of its overall broadcast ratings, DVD and book sales, iTunes traffic, and "illegal downloads".^[2]

[dr_who]

yippy skip.

[bd476]

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I have been wanting a bluray reader drive...but figured that the prices were about to drop on writers also.

Going thru Fry's there has been a large increase of available bluray material to buy.

Then the other day , I think Toshiba announced they could produce the Media with a triple layer blank that could hold 100 Gigabyte...put up a thread on that.

and there have been other little signs.

What has been lacking is the price drop on the hardware readers and writers.

LG seems to be getting the game going.

Prices on DVD readers and writers have really gotten low...and with SATA connections.

It just takes one or two of the Asian bulk manufactures to switch his DVD line off and start up a Bluray line and the competition will get rolling.

Maybe the problem has been something internal like the actual blue laser as too costly....don't really know.

Another one to watch is hard Drives....Fry's on their online has :

Western Digital 1.5TB SATA/300 Bare Hard Drive - WD15EARS

Price: $68.00

Currently out of stock online.,...check store for availability.

[bd476]

Oh great, thank you very much Ernest. I’ll keep watching to see what Fry’s comes up with.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

And:

LITE-ON iHAS324-98 INTERNAL SATA DVD WRITER

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Price:

	$39.99
Instant Savings:		$7.00
After Rebate:		$17.99