I have been attempting to collect every William Hartnell episode of Doctor Who on DVD. I am running into a frustration that I have ran into my whole life with Doctor Who. I just can't get them. I finally ordered the last of the ones I need that are available in the U.S. from Amazon. I now am finding a road block.
"the Chase" and "The Space Museum" have been announced as 2010 releases for the U.K. but I can find nothing at all about U.S. releases. Then the BBC went ahead and put some episodes online to watch for free. This is good especially when I am waiting for the DVD release and it is one not yet released. I was watching them on blinkbox when they suddenly restricted them to the U.S., now you can not watch then in the country. I was furious. Blinkbox has "The Sensorites" online but it is still unavailable on DVD. Soon after they were restricted in the U.S. Youtube started to show some for free. This soon ended just like they did with Blinkbox.
It's bad enough that there are so many missing episodes, they really don't have to deprive us of episodes that are not missing. The copyright stuff is really ridiculous in all this. I won't get into my anarchist politics here on this blog, but I will say that I would rather get rid of the different region DVD's and be able to purchase a DVD when it comes out in the U.K. instead of waiting for the U.S. to get the release. Are they trying to promote a black market?
I am willing to buy my Doctor Who on DVD. No, I want to buy the DVD's completely legally, they have just not given me the opportunity.
BBC, stop hording Doctor Who episodes.
Saturday, January 16, 2010
Doctor Who DVD frustration
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