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Are the Blurays for the 9th-10th Doctor Eras worth it, or should I go with the DVDs?
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"Planet of the Dead" was the first episode of New Who made in HD.
If you're in a PAL country then the 2023 UK boxset of the 9th & 10th doctor era is the best way to get them on Bluray (and the first Region B release at the correct frame rate).
The main advantage of the bluray over the DVDs is the use of the H264 codec and industrial upscaling (thankfully not AI upscaling!) used on the boxset. Effectively it's as close as we will get to the master tapes for those episodes. So whilst you won't see a massive step up in picture quality between the DVDs and blurays for the 2005-2008 episodes, personally I thought it was worthwhile doing (plus it's convenient having them all in the one boxset).
Yes I am in a Pal Country, which is actually why I wanna ask if there is a German Dub version of this Boxset as Well? Would love to watch these with some German only Friends!
There is a recent German release of these episodes in two boxsets: https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Doctor-Who-Christopher-Eccleston-Der-komplette-Neunte-Doktor-Blu-ray/395208/ https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Doctor-Who-David-Tennant-Der-komplette-Zehnte-Doktor-Blu-ray/395205/
I can't find much about them, although Amazon and a few online bluray stores I can find (I'm in Australia so not familiar with most EU or German distributors) lists them as having the German audio.