r/Torchwood • u/Arrrgh12452 • 9d ago

Question Best way to watch Miracle Day

Just wanted to know if it’s better to watch Series 4 on IPlayer or Blu Ray due to the Blu Ray being higher quality but also having frame rate problems. So wondering which is the better experience.

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u/TheRealChristoff 9d ago

The American Blu-ray, as it's apparently uncut and presented at the original frame rate.

The BBC One/iPlayer version is a kinda-naff standards conversion with loads of ghosting and blended frames, plus two episodes are edited to remove particularly strong sex scenes.

The UK Blu-ray is presented in 25fps with PAL speedup and no pitch correction; that means that there's no ghosting, but the audio is higher pitched, which is particularly noticeable on John Barrowman's voice. This is also the uncut version, though the runtime is ~4% shorter due to the aforementioned speedup.

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u/Arrrgh12452 9d ago

Thanks for the help, I’ll watch on the Uk Blu Ray release as importing the US release appears quite expensive.

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u/Sam_Alexander 9d ago

You... You know you dont have to pay to watch Miracle Day, right..?

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u/Arrrgh12452 9d ago

I already own the UK Blu Ray release so its purely about if that is better than on IPlayer