Red Dwarf Series 1 - 8 Boxset BD [Blu-ray] [2018]

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All of this in one box, with absolutely gorgeous new retro-styled artwork... for less than forty quid. So cheap even Rimmer might prise his wallet open for it. Yeah, I felt very similarly, which is why it took me this long, but I just couldn’t fully quiet the voice in my head reminding me that thiese were the best quality versions of Red Dwarf 1-VIII.

Also, I realised something else today. Given that all of the Series 1-VIII DVD extras have been preserved here, does this mean the Blu ray set would work as a replacement for the originals if you also got the Just The Shows sets??? You would end up with 8 fewer duplicate discs that way…

As someone who had the DVDs already, I’d say the boxset was a waste of money. Box is crap, visual improvements are up for debate and what improvements there occasionally are are tempered by some downgrades in places, and a couple of added spelling mistakes and no charming animated menus. What's more, the whopping 19-disc set includes a vast assortment of extras relating to each series - in fact, everything that was produced for the original eight two- and three-disc DVD sets, and as a bonus thrown in at no extra charge, fantastic material from the hard-to-find Bodysnatcher Collection set. That was never a possibility. Red Dwarf was filmed on standard-def videotape would _only_ contains 480p resolution. HD is 200% that size. You can only get true HD remasters out of shows shot on film, because it’s much higher quality and doesn’t have a hard pixel limit. With videotape like Red Dwarf was filmed on, the best you could ever do is upscale the standard def video to HD (which, again does not do anything to increase the resolution of the source picture), clean up the video and encode it in higher quality than a DVD. Which is exactly what this release was promising to do in the first place.

For those of you awaiting an update on the replacement of the faulty discs in the recent Red Dwarf: Complete Series I-VIII Blu-ray set, we've received an update from BBC Studios. In unashamedly have smooth motive on my TV. Love it. I’ve never quite understood why people view it so badly so maybe you could enlighten me because I honestly feel my viewing experience is better with it. Part of the problem is that Red Dwarf doesn’t work as well with a large guest cast. Meltdown, Timewave and series VIII attest to this. The Promised Land is no exception.Incidentally, contrary to our previous reporting, we can now confirm that the bonus DVDs for each series do actually contain everything that was on their equivalent original release discs - including the original menus!) Thank you for your continued patience while we have investigated the issue with the Red Dwarf Blu-ray set. After thorough investigation with all the suppliers involved we have now identified the source of the problem.