skifflebits wrote: ↑Sun Oct 27, 2019 2:48 pm
They're pretty fabulous. The US is about six months behind on all of them, so I just got Season 10. The restoration work is fabulous, and the extras are pretty damn good, too. I'm looking forward to getting Season 23 just so I can watch the standalone "Vervoids."
My TV and player are standard US models and have no modifications, but they happen to accept 50i Blu-Rays (although the player won't do PAL DVDs).
Since the sets are region-free, I've ordered all of them from Amazon UK with the exception of Season 12. The S23 set cost me £32 with £3.25 shipping, about $47 at the current exchange rate. Just about the price of the US discs, and such nice packaging! And I generally don't care about packaging.
The 50i-to-60i conversion on my S12 set is flawless to my very picky eyes, but the BBC America ads they insert are very annoying. None of that on the UK sets.
I'd recommend trying out a UK set - if your TV or player won't cooperate, at the very worst you could sell it on eBay and get your money back, and maybe a bit more.