Worldwide all our films are offered for download by Drop Box for just £9 The PMP Shop offers post free DVDs to The UK Common Travel Area - UK IOM CI ROI.
Dave is now part of Online Archive and still working through oceans of cine film , scanning to HD digital standard. All cine for our productions now undergoes conversion to HD, cleaning, sharpening and increasing to 50fps.
Some of our Still Photo Prints are migrating to the Transport Library site they are printed and posted within the UK. We can offer a licence for commercial use. We will shortly be launching still photo DVDs starting with Malta plus download versions and watermarked samples on Youtube.
You can still order by post or telephone and we still accept POs and cheques. If you are online just hit the button on the shop page to open our enormous list, use our own store on this site with over 5000 DVDs listed. A very quick way to locate a film in the PMP shop ( if you have consulted our list) is just to enter the film number in the search box it will take you straight there and if it is £16 it is a DVD . For download use the digital request form, bottom of shop landing page.
Our work with digital and AI enhancements to films continues to grow. We have tried most of the software heavily promoted and others that must be sought out. Among the latter is NEAT which although quite expensive is the tool that most TV and film productions you to 'clean' older images. We have successfully coloured old B&W film, it is a bit hit and miss as to what comes out best. The better software is aimed at Hollywood and cost many thousands a year.
We are scanning through the collection of Phil Tatt together with all our friend John Bishop's material together with other collections. We have also recently been able to secure the majority of Ivor Hardings worldwide mostly steam railways films for safe keeping with OTA.
The full range of our truck coverage is still available and added to regularly.
We shall be working towards being all digital by 16th March 2030 when we shall cease all the heavy work and just be downloads or streaming whatever is the latest technique then. We are finding it very hard taking the PMP stand to events and unlikely to extend beyond a very small circle of events. DVDs will not be produced beyond 2028. They will be on sale until 2030
We are working with our friends overseas to produce new ranges of model buses, initial types are already progressing through the factories with at least 4 applicable to the UK market. Watch out for 'Brilliant Buses'.
We feature in a coming Channel 5 TV documentary which should now hit screens in 2024. Still no news on broadcast date.
We must remind everyone that we actually make a lost selling DVDs. Recently our disc maker stopped working and we had to buy in printed blanks this together with repairs is another outlay from my savings this time of £1000.