Editing Top Gear (2002 TV series)/Home Video Releases/Series Box Sets

From GearKnob Wiki
Jump to navigationJump to search

Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.

The edit can be undone. Please check the comparison below to verify that this is what you want to do, and then publish the changes below to finish undoing the edit.

Latest revision Your text
Line 35: Line 35:


==Third-party Japanese releases by Assist Corp.==
==Third-party Japanese releases by Assist Corp.==
On the 6th December, 2019, three series which never saw a home release in any other territory, [[{{ROOTPAGENAME}}/Series 2|Series 2]], [[{{ROOTPAGENAME}}/Series 3|Series 3]], and [[{{ROOTPAGENAME}}/Series 6|Series 6]], were all released on DVD for the very first time. They were produced by Assist-Corp<ref>[https://assist-corp.tv/dvd Assist-Corp official website.]</ref>, a company previously known<ref>[https://www.itworldcanada.com/article/japanese-porn-industry-embraces-blu-ray-disc/9204 IT World Canada - Japanese porn industry embraces Blu-ray Disc.]</ref> for distributing physical copies of pornography. Due to an endorsement<ref>[https://twitter.com/bbcjapan/status/1202783666893574144 Twitter - BBC Japan tweets about Series 2, 3 & 6 box sets.]</ref> from the BBC Japan Twitter page, these releases are genuine and were made with permission from the Japanese arm of the BBC. However, it appears, from various reviews on Amazon, that the discs were unreliable and the box set may have been produced in very low numbers, making them unobtainable for most fans of ''Top Gear'', even those living in Japan. Assist-Corp has since lost<ref>From E-Mail correspondence between ''GearKnob'' and Assist-Corp in 2022.</ref> the licence to produce DVDs featuring BBC intellectual property.
On the 6th December, 2019, three series which never saw a home release in any other territory, [[{{ROOTPAGENAME}}/Series 2|Series 2]], [[{{ROOTPAGENAME}}/Series 3|Series 3]], and [[{{ROOTPAGENAME}}/Series 6|Series 6]], were all allegedly released on DVD for the very first time. They were produced by Assist-Corp<ref>[https://assist-corp.tv/dvd Assist-Corp official website.]</ref>, a company previously known<ref>[https://www.itworldcanada.com/article/japanese-porn-industry-embraces-blu-ray-disc/9204 IT World Canada - Japanese porn industry embraces Blu-ray Disc.]</ref> for distributing physical copies of pornography.
Β 
Due to an endorsement<ref>[https://twitter.com/bbcjapan/status/1202783666893574144 Twitter - BBC Japan tweets about Series 2, 3 & 6 box sets.]</ref> from the BBC Japan Twitter page, it is believed these releases are genuine. However, it appears, from various reviews on Amazon, that the discs were unreliable and the box set may have been produced in very low numbers, making them unobtainable for most fans of ''Top Gear'', even those living in Japan.
Β 
[[Gearknob]] has presently emailed the company and is awaiting further information.


==References==
==References==
Please note that all contributions to GearKnob Wiki are considered to be released under the GNU Free Documentation License 1.3 or later (see GearKnob Wiki:Copyrights for details). If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly and redistributed at will, then do not submit it here.
You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource. Do not submit copyrighted work without permission!
Cancel Editing help (opens in new window)

Template used on this page: