Doctor Who: Series 1-7 Limited Edition Blu-ray Giftset

All-Inclusive
For those of you wondering, all of the specials are indeed included in this set. The Blu Rays for Series 2-7 independently contain the Christmas specials that preceded that season. If you'd like to go through the contents of each individual series, you can look them up here on Amazon and you will see that the specials are included in the sets.

To summarize: Every single episode of Who that has aired since 2005 will be on this set.
Doctor Who: Series 1-7 in the Blue Box
I haven't seen this box set but do own the Tennant specials and subsequent series on Blu-ray. At this point, I just want to make a few remarks about image quality.

I had often wondered why the early reboot series were not in available in Blu-ray. Some web research led me to the answer. Doctor Who Series 1-4, with exception of the last two specials, were shot in Standard Definition (SD). SD PAL (Europe) is 576 scan lines as opposed to SD NTSC (US) 480 scan lines. When mastered for DVD some resolution was lost, not a whole lot overall, but some. Blu-ray Disc (BD) has more than enough room for that full SD PAL to shine. It will *never* be full 1080 HD but these will look as good as they ever will!

The current Series 5-7 on BD look and sound *fantastic*. So, allons-y! This is the set to get.

Web rumors indicated Series 1-4 will receive separate BD releases in 2014. Till then -- Geronimo!

BTW -- WB says --

Special Features:
All...
It is all here!
A special Blu-Ray high-definition box set of every episode and special since the 2005
Relaunch, up to The Name of the Doctor. This is a must have. The episodes in series 1-4 were originally shot at the UK's standard definition of the time, 576i, while everything from Planet of the Dead onwards was shot at 1080i. All are being converted up to 1080p for this gift set. Also
included in the set is an Eleventh Doctor Sonic Screwdriver Remote Control for TVs
and other home media equipment. That alone is $100.00. The on-disc contents should be identical to those for the previously-released complete season sets (apart from the definition increase, of course).
Each season will come in its own case, with an outer box to contain them all in. The set
may also contain a few other little souvenir nick-knacks.

The up-converted series 1 to 4 sets will also be made available to purchase on their own,
but likely not until the middle of 2014.
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