Doctor Who Unboxed: Video On Demand

Amazon's new Unbox Video On Demand service launched recently, and there was one perhaps surprising entry amongst their content -- Doctor Who.

So far they've launched with several classic Doctor Who stories. They're all already out on DVD, but they're priced at $1.95 an episode. Which makes a four episode story run for $8.00, which is cheaper than what you would find it on DVD. Of course, you've got some downsides -- they've got some DRM that will only let you view the file for 30 days, and right now it looks like it's only for Windows XP.

Perhaps unsurprsingly, they're all ones currently available on DVD. But amongst the stories they have include The Caves of Androzani, Spearhead from Space, The Ark in Space, The Aztecs, Pyramids of Mars, and The Curse of Fenric.

I haven't, as yet, bitten the bullet and tried it out. After all, I already own all of the DVDs. But presumably, this will work quite well for more casual and more recent fans, and it works especially well for a series like Doctor Who, which has hundreds of stories in the back catalog.