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====Incompleteness==== | ====Incompleteness==== | ||
The most obvious of these is the incompleteness of the show's coverage. Even if one legally owns every ''Top Gear'' home video release, they can only watch the latter 14 series produced from 2007 - 2015, and fans living in the UK will need to import their copies of Series 9, 12, 18, 21 & 22 from mainland Europe, as they were never sold in the former | The most obvious of these is the incompleteness of the show's coverage. Even if one legally owns every ''Top Gear'' home video release, they can only watch the latter 14 series produced from 2007 - 2015, and fans living in the UK will need to import their copies of Series 9, 12, 18, 21 & 22 from mainland Europe, as they were never sold in the former. | ||
Furthermore, Blu-Ray releases of the series are very limited, and only Series 14 - 17 are available in this manner. | Furthermore, Blu-Ray releases of the series are very limited, and only Series 14 - 17 are available in this manner. | ||
====Loss of quality==== | ====Loss of quality==== | ||
The versions of the episodes released on home media are not at their original broadcast quality; in order to fit several episodes onto space-limited discs, they have been compressed. Usually, this is not particularly noticeable unless one looks at finer details such as car number plates. | The versions of the episodes released on home media are not at their original broadcast quality; in order to fit several episodes onto space-limited discs, they have been compressed. Usually, this is not particularly noticeable unless one looks at finer details such as car number plates. | ||
====Gratuitous cuts==== | ====Gratuitous cuts==== | ||
Typically, cuts were made because the original footage contained copyrighted material or the content featured might have been deemed objectionable. However, certain releases cut footage as a simple cost-cutting measure and did not need to be removed. The worst offender of these are the Series 10 box sets. Due to featuring 10 episodes, unnecessary cuts were made to The News and Star-in-a-Reasonably-Priced-Car segments in order to cut each episode down to 50 minutes, so that | Typically, cuts were made because the original footage contained copyrighted material or the content featured might have been deemed objectionable. However, certain releases cut footage as a simple cost-cutting measure and did not need to be removed. The worst offender of these are the Series 10 box sets. Due to featuring 10 episodes, unnecessary cuts were made to The News and Star-in-a-Reasonably-Priced-Car segments in order to cut each episode down to 50 minutes, so that it could fit on to three discs as opposed to a fourth as a cost-cutting measure. | ||
====Incorrect framerate==== | ====Incorrect framerate==== | ||
Region 1 releases have been "stretched" to 60 FPS | Region 1 releases have been "stretched" to 60 FPS, which creates intermediary ghost frames that are noticeable under playback. | ||
====Lack of bonus features==== | ====Lack of bonus features==== | ||
Most Region 2 releases of the series box sets do not feature bonus material, which is odd since the Region 1 releases typically do | Most Region 2 releases of the series box sets do not feature bonus material, which is odd since the Region 1 releases typically do. | ||
====Confusing release dates==== | ====Confusing release dates==== |