First UK DVD
 

Due for release 25th March.
http://www.play.com/DVD/DVD/4-/39409...ngDetails.html

No episode details but there is a running time of 2hrs 12 Minutes approx, so it is a guess how many episodes are there.

Educated guess: 6 eps @ 24 minutes each.

Most likely. I think past TMNT UK volumes have been 6 episodes a piece.

The Amazon UK pre-order is just £7.49 (inc postage) and has a free Leonardo bandana.

Must admit this is pretty tempting. Widescreen (unlike the US DVD), R2 so my Blu-Ray player can upscale (still holding out for Blu-Ray really but that's the next best thing). The decider will be if this is edited or not. I refuse to pay for a cut version of the show. Especially stupid cuts like "mom" in the first episode.

Recent episodes haven't (noticeably) been cut so I guess there's some hope they're just using the US masters now. But the cuts in the pilot were pretty bad so I'm really hoping it's not that version.

They still release stuff that isn't widescreen? We live in the year 2013 and fullscreen TVs have been out of circulation for a long while now. Mind blown.

Well apparently the US box says fullscreen but it's now been confirmed the actual DVD is widescreen. Strange, and one less reason to get the UK release.

So for me

Pros
- R2 so my Blu-Ray will upscale

Cons
- May be edited

Think I'll wait and hope for a US Blu-Ray release once the season is finished. But if anyone can confirm that the episodes are uncut then I may be tempted to grab it, especially if I can find it cheap enough.

There is no difference between an upscaled DVD and a non-upscaled DVD.

There obviously is a difference between an upscaled DVD and a non-upscaled DVD. One is upscaled, and the other is non-upscaled. Duh.

Pre-ordered :tgrin:

The good news;

http://www.bbfc.co.uk/releases/teena...rise-turtles-0

Passed without cuts :tgrin: (now we just have to hope Nick UK submitted the uncut masters rather than the UK TV edits).

Little unsure as the UK running time is 132 but the US running time is 145. I know there's a speed difference between PAL and NTSC that gives the UK discs a slightly shorter running time, but that's a big difference.

The bad news;

http://www.bbfc.co.uk/releases/teena...s-rise-turtles

We get 1 bonus feature (Mutation of a Scene for Rise of the Turtles Part 1 according to Amazon). I'm not bothered about the karaoke theme song, but the US release got behind the scenes features for all 6 episodes :tsad:

I've got this pre-ordered but if i'm not happy with it then I will get the US one imported and collect those instead

I have to get most of my TV dvd's from the US now a days so it doesn't make much difference

I really hope they don't put the edited versions on, I still am going to wait for the complete season 1 Boxset, most likely be out shortly after Season 1 has had its run.

Although that Leo mask.......:o

Hmm. The UK gets better cover art. Strangely enough, the North American DVDs had that image as the main menu background -- so why not have it as the cover as well? It's bad-ass.

Thanks for the info! I pre-ordered a copy yesterday. I guess I'm going to be purchasing 2 copies, for each volume, from now on. For the bonuses of course, such as the poster (U.S. Release), Leonardo mask (U.K), I can only imagine they will have more bonuses with future volumes. If no more bonuses for the U.S., I'll be keeping my eyes on the U.K. :teek:

Good to see the turtles on DVD.

Duh.

When I say that there's "no difference" I mean that there is almost no increase in quality in an 'upscaled' DVD. The Blu-Ray player tries to make a DVD higher quality by playing it at a higher bitrate, which does almost nothing to improve the picture. You really can't make a 480p image 1080p unless you clean it up by hand.

The UK Coverart is a big improvement over the US One :)

Glad the Rest of Europe ist getting it as well ^^
http://www.bilder-hochladen.net/files/jlgb-4m-82aa.jpg
(german Coverart)

I think the bandana promotion would have been more fun if the color was random.

I'm guessing the bandana promotion could run into future releases. Leonardo is central on the cover for this one, so it may indicate what the next set and cover art could be like if the mask bundle continues.

Yup, I thought the same thing. That's why I'm keeping my eye on future volumes, hopefully they continue with the rest of the bandanas :tgrin:

Definitely looking forward to the next volumes, from both U.S. and worldwide.