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

[Jeff Sultanof]

Thanks for the information. The thought that Blu-Ray releases from overseas
are not region-coded is very encouraging.

Jeff Sultanof

On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 6:09 PM, Michael Biel <mbiel at mbiel.com> wrote:

> 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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