Re: Yet another PT fuck up re. "The Three Doctors" DVD

On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 23:57:55 +0000, ZC TGS
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>On 1 Dec 2003 15:16:11 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Vowles) wrote:
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>>ZC TGS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
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>>> If it was there that day and they didn't refilm, and showed it on TV
>>> then it should have stayed. It's these sorts of things that make
>>> people download episodes, or record them of UK Gold and not buy
>>> original DVDs.
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>>What if it were the original intent of the production team to have no
>>vans present, and what if they'd said they regretted not refilming the
>>scene?
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>But the fact is they didn't. They showed the van on TV. 
>That is the version they should have released.  They keep things like
>the 'Next Episode' titles, yet delete other things which are part of
>the Doctor Who.
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>Doctor Who is full these sorts of things. So do you remove the famous
>hand in The Pyramids of Mars? Do you find ways to make it appear that
>the sets aren't shaking? After all it wasn't the intention to see the
>hand or for the sets to shake.
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>>Just out of curiosity -- do you give precedence to the production
>>team's vision whereever possible?
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>I tend to give precedence to what was shown on screen where possible.
>Not what may have been.
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>In the case of DIOE, the removal of the van should be a optional extra
>for the viewer to select. Not a forced one. The consumer should have
>the choice to watch what version they want. Is it a optional extra?
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>>And with all due respect, it's the lure of getting free shit that
>>makes people download episodes -- NOT any minor, 1-second background
>>detail erasures.
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>I view this in the same way as I view the DVD situation of the Star
>Wars films (original and special editions). George Lucas refuses to
>release the orginals and as said so. I have the originals on tape
>several times over, and I'll buy the official DVDs as well. But that
>won't stop me from bootlegging the original non special edition DVD
>versions of the films either. 
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I'm just curious now as to how many cars, trucks, vans, planes,
people, buildings, planets, stars, or who knows what were removed from
DIOE.

They only ever admitted to removing one (that I recall), and now there
are two, just how many are there?