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Post by Gnorn on Apr 10, 2005 22:08:07 GMT
Thanks McTodd! Your suggestion, and the one from Green Mist (about burning a DVD-R) gives us region 2 folks some hope of seeing Mr. Hines movie on the small screen :-)
-Gnorn
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Post by mctoddridesagain on Apr 10, 2005 22:40:35 GMT
No problem - the players that can't be hacked are, as far as I'm aware, very much in the minority.
When I told my flatmate that he had managed to buy just about the only model Sony make that can't be hacked he was, well, hacked off... *trombone* Wah, wah, waaaahhhh.....!!!
And, of course, the wonderful world of region 1 DVDs with their almost invariably superior extras etc. will be opened for you, as an Aladdin's Cave!
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Post by EvilNerfherder on Apr 10, 2005 23:40:25 GMT
My DVD player just needed a code, off the net, which was input via the handset, to de- regionalize it (or whatever the term is). And it was cheap too. I have it set to PAL 60 (less stuttery than standard PAL with NTSC discs, and saves having to switch to NTSC every time I want to play a region one disc) mode now and can play anything perfectly. Quite often the Region 1 discs are superior but not always.. sometimes Region 2 releases have better extras. You need to do some research before shelling out on discs.
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Post by Lensman on Apr 11, 2005 21:09:49 GMT
Some DVDs are now being encoded to check the DVD player to see if it has a region indicator, and if it does not the DVD refuses to play. This is an effort to prevent people from viewing the DVD with a region-free player. I haven't heard much about that lately, so perhaps not very many DVDs are encoded that way. But I made sure the second DVD player I bought would not be subject to that problem. It's a multi-region player, which means it can be switched from one region to another. This was third-party modified, and also had PAL capability installed. I bought it off the Internet; you can search for "multi region" + "dvd player". I'm not sure, but I seem to remember reading that older computer DVD drives would play any region, but for newer ones they've been forced to install region restrictions. But there should be a "hack" to defeat that; after all, it's just software. I understand that there is some Internet DVD exporter who gets around the laws governing region restrictions by opening the DVD cases before they are sent, and thus selling them as "used" copies. All quite legal so far as I know. However, that doesn't get around the c*pyright ;D problem; I am not an intellectual properties lawyer, but my understanding is that WotW is still in c*pyright in the U.K. and therefore it wouldn't be legal to export Pendragon's DVD to the U.K. even if it's used.
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Post by Gnorn on Apr 11, 2005 21:16:44 GMT
And there ebay comes to the rescue ;-)
-Gnorn
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Post by timeship2 on Apr 11, 2005 22:08:36 GMT
At least DVD's can usually be hacked. A VHS tape player has to have the hardware to be able to play different formats. I remember when I came here to the USA in 1998 I had to buy a multiregion VHS player for my UK tapes. Cost me $600 and I had to special order it as you couldn't buy them at local stores. In the UK I do remember even back then a few VHS players would play NTSC tapes.
I remember asking local electronics stores if they had VCR's that could play tapes from other countries ie different formats and they had no idea what I was talking about and didn't even know about this concept, but then this is to be expected with the average store salesman who is not usually a very technical person.
I guess the ability to play PAL tapes doesn't have much demand here unlike the ability play NTSC tapes elsewhere!
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Post by dudalb on Apr 12, 2005 17:33:30 GMT
Amazon , btw, has a deserved reputation for being very optimistic in announcing the availability date of DVD's. They have been saying the El Cid will be available in a few months for a couple of years, and the film is still caught up in a legal battle over who has the English language DVD rights. Amazon announcments should be taken with a grain of salt unless they are acompanied by an official announcement from a DVD company. (You can get a DVD copy legally in the US by buying one of the foreign language versions and changing it into the English Language version; it is a loophole in the law that allowed me to finally get the film on DVD).
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Post by Anthony on Apr 12, 2005 18:38:46 GMT
DVD Retail $9.98 Available 5/31/05 Remind Me!
We don't sell movies. See how to buy movies listed on our site. when War of the Worlds is released on DVD or VHS War of the Worlds
Year: 2005 On Video: May 31, 2005 Genre: Documentary Synopsis: Rating: Not Rated Studio: Goldhill Home Media
I sin a few websites hosting this DVD, and this is the most info i could find. The DVD is definatley a documentry of somekind and it is made by a studio called Goldhill.
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Post by Thunder Child on Apr 13, 2005 20:04:32 GMT
A documentary i'm curious about!
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Post by jeffwaynefan on Apr 13, 2005 21:43:07 GMT
I new it was a documentary, had to be for that price.
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Post by Lensman on Apr 14, 2005 1:24:39 GMT
Amazon , btw, has a deserved reputation for being very optimistic in announcing the availability date of DVD's. <snip> Amazon announcments should be taken with a grain of salt unless they are acompanied by an official announcement from a DVD company. That's good advice. I use Amazon to check to see if a DVD has been announced, but unless it shows up at www.dvdpricesearch.com/...then I don't assume it has actually been given a firm release date.
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Post by HTT on Apr 14, 2005 9:10:51 GMT
[glow=purple,2,300]This may be a bit of a long shot, but...
Jeff Wayne's 6-disc album is out Summer (possibly JUNE) There is a DVD in it, the content of which would be used for a TV documentary
Perhaps this is the documentary about the album? It could be advertised US & Canada only at the minute because they haven't got the correct info yet (not even a piccie!).
If not, then it's either a Making Of... documentary (Pendragon probably, coz Paramount would do worldwide), or that Great Books learning channel thingy (Goldhill seem to be primarily an educational distributor).
The only other thing I can find, is the '53 version - a budget re-release perhaps with no extras?[/glow]
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Post by jeffwaynefan on Apr 14, 2005 11:37:34 GMT
Nope, it's not Jeff's.
Not a budget 53 re-release either, as Paramount will want to get money back ASAP for the SS version and to start it off nicely would be pre-film items and the SE of the 53.
H_C
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bosko
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Post by bosko on Apr 14, 2005 11:55:58 GMT
I bet the DVD will be sold on a website similar to where the books are being sold, not on Amazon. Which is a shame becuase I've never had problems with Amazon and buying DVD's and importing them here to Australia. What was the DVD dist. company over there in America that might be signing up? We should check their website to see if they are retail sellers aswell, I remember an old Russel Crowe movie on their front page...
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Post by HTT on Apr 14, 2005 13:49:51 GMT
[glow=purple,2,300]@bosco: That website with old Croweface on it was UAV. However, that's all you get! The website sez it doesn't take orders anymore, so you have to visit their retail outlets. Typically, they don't list any of their retail outlets anywhere...[/glow]
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Post by Gnorn on Apr 14, 2005 16:51:57 GMT
It's not even comfirmed that UAV will distribute the movie :-(
-Gnorn
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Post by Refugee on Apr 22, 2005 15:39:43 GMT
It could be this 4th film that has popped up.
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