[78-L] DVD question--was: Re: A word of warning concerning playback

[Michael Biel]

Jeff Sultanof wrote:
> May I ask what movie? I'm always intrigued when I hear about different
> versions of films.
>
> Jeff Sultanof
>
>   

"Pirate Radio" in the U.S., "The Boat That Rocked" in England, "Good 
Morning England"  in France and several other European countries.  The 
U.S. cut is over 20 minutes shorter and loses three nice sequences, but 
the opening and some other parts are much better in the U. S version.  
Although the movie lost money everywhere, Leah and I loved it.  She went 
to see it seven times.  I have both the British DVD and Blu-Ray and we 
bought the pirate DVD from her Brooklyn neighborhood Chinese Pirate, but 
it turned out to be a dub of the British DVD we already had.  We were 
really hoping it was a crummy theater shoot because we just wanted to 
note on some edit differences, but that will have to wait for next 
week's legit release.  As I mentioned, the British Blu-ray is 
region-free and plays fine on unhacked U.S. players.  Haven't checked 
the DVD, but I don't think I have an unhacked DVD player. 

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
> On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 2:23 AM, Michael Biel <mbiel at mbiel.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> But as I predicted, Blu-Ray players are starting to become fairly
>> inexpensive at the low end, way under $100, and soon might be under
>> $50.  They will play regular DVDs and CD, but might not play VCDs and
>> other formats like that.  I lucked into an LG combo HD-DVD/Blu Ray
>> machine which turns out to be hackable for multi-region.  Again my
>> suggestion is to always try to ckeck on the web beforehand if the model
>> is region-code hackable.  But we are finding that a lot of European
>> Blu-Rays are region free, including one movie we got three months ago
>> which is not being released in the US till next week and is a completely
>> different edit from the British original.  The coding was designed for
>> exactly that reason!
>>
>> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com  .
>>
>>
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