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Yes I was referring to Digital Betacam
I think it's the latter because the episode Moving House from series 3 has it (although for some reason it looks really blurry). It's hard to make out but it's there if you zoom into the image.
The BBC DVDs of Some Mothers came out in 2011 and clearly haven't been remastered in anyway were as the classic Doctor Who range have the subcarrier reference intact (for the most part) and they have been remastered so why wouldn't the Doctor Who Restoration Team remove it, Terror of the Zygons released on DVD in 2013 has it although it's a little blurry and they are still on some of the Blu Ray releases that only started coming out in 2018, here's an example
And here's the DVD 
(The screenshot is from Robot, originally recorded on 2 inch tape in 1974 and later converted to D3 tape in the 1990s, on the Blu Ray from 2018 the subcarrier reference is longer and nearly touches the edge of the left hand side of the screen were as on the DVD from 2007 the subcarrier reference is shorter and in the centre).
FilmBlokeJ
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Do you mean Digital Betacam - or Betacam (the original analogue component format that dates back to the early-mid 80s?)
Yes I was referring to Digital Betacam
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In the case of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em - either the later BBC release was mastered correctly and the subcarrier reference was blanked, or there is a possibility that the BBC release was sourced separately via a non-BBC Transform decoder. I'd hope it's the former, not the latter.
I think it's the latter because the episode Moving House from series 3 has it (although for some reason it looks really blurry). It's hard to make out but it's there if you zoom into the image.
The BBC DVDs of Some Mothers came out in 2011 and clearly haven't been remastered in anyway were as the classic Doctor Who range have the subcarrier reference intact (for the most part) and they have been remastered so why wouldn't the Doctor Who Restoration Team remove it, Terror of the Zygons released on DVD in 2013 has it although it's a little blurry and they are still on some of the Blu Ray releases that only started coming out in 2018, here's an example
And here's the DVD (The screenshot is from Robot, originally recorded on 2 inch tape in 1974 and later converted to D3 tape in the 1990s, on the Blu Ray from 2018 the subcarrier reference is longer and nearly touches the edge of the left hand side of the screen were as on the DVD from 2007 the subcarrier reference is shorter and in the centre).
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