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Encyclopedia > Doctor Who Restoration Team

The Doctor Who Restoration Team is a loose collection of Doctor Who fans, many within the television industry, who restore Doctor Who episodes for release on DVD. Doctor Who is a long-running award-winning British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The series depicts the adventures of a mysterious time-traveller known as the Doctor who travels in his TARDIS (Time And Relative Dimension(s) In Space) time ship, which appears from the exterior...


The Restoration Team was formed in 1992 when a small group of Doctor Who fans approached the BBC's Television Archivist wanting funding for a unique project. This original project was to restore a monochrome Jon Pertwee story back to its original colour form. The results of this were so successful that the BBC Archives co-funded the Team to restore three more complete stories. Since then, the Team has expanded and has contributed to many Doctor Who projects for both BBC Television and BBC Worldwide. These include many of the final Doctor Who VHS releases and all of the 'classic series' DVD releases to date.[1] In recent years the team's 'Doctor Who Technical Forum' has courted controversy where certain fans' views have often clashed with those contributing to the Restoration Team. The British Broadcasting Corporation, which is usually known as the BBC, is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world in terms of audience numbers, employing 26,000 staff in the United Kingdom alone and with a budget of more than GB£4 billion. ... An archivist surveying an unprocessed collection of materials. ... A photograph of a sign in grayscale The same photograph in black and white Monochrome comes from the two Greek words mono (μωνο, meaning one), and chroma (χρωμα, meaning surface or the color of the skin). A monochromatic object has a single color. ... John Devon Roland Pertwee (7 July 1919 – 20 May 1996), better known as Jon Pertwee, was an English actor. ... Color is an important part of the visual arts. ... BBC Television is a service of the British Broadcasting Corporation which began in 1932. ... BBC Worldwide Limited is the wholly-owned commercial subsidiary of the British Broadcasting Corporation, formed out of a restructuring of its predecessor BBC Enterprises in 1995. ... Bottom view of VHS cassette with magnetic tape exposed Top view of VHS cassette with front casing removed The Video Home System, better known by its abbreviation VHS is a recording and playing standard for analog video cassette recorders (VCRs), developed by Victor Company of Japan, Limited (JVC) and launched...


One member, Mark Ayres, has done much of the audio restoration work for the final VHS releases, as well as many of the DVD releases, and all of the "Missing Soundtrack" CD releases since 1999. Other known team members, past and present, include: Mark Ayres is a television composer who is best known for his work on Doctor Who. ... Audio Restoration is an overarching term for the process of removing artifacts (such as hiss, crackle, noise, and buzz) from sound recordings. ... A Compact Disc or CD is an optical disc used to store digital data, originally developed for storing digital audio. ...

  • James Russell
  • Ralph Montagu
  • Steve Roberts
  • Paul Vanezis, video restoration
  • Richard Molesworth
  • Peter Finklestone, designer of VidFIRE
  • Peter Crocker, Director of SVS Resources[2]
  • Steve Broster
  • Richard Bignell
  • John Kelly,
  • Ed Stradling,
  • Jonathan Wood, video restoration
  • Steven Bagley

Paul Vanezis, born in November 1965, is a Staff Director at BBC Birmingham. ... VidFIRE, short for Video Field Interpolation Restoration Effect, is a restoration technique developed by Peter Finklestone. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

See also

The First Doctor (Andrew Ainsworth) collapses prior to his regeneration (from the surviving clip of The Tenth Planet, Episode 4). ... “Doctor who episodes” redirects here. ... An assortment of Region 1 and Region 2 Doctor Who DVD releases. ...

References

  1. ^ http://www.restoration-team.co.uk
  2. ^ http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1936559,00.html

External links

  • Official Restoration Team website


 
 

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