Where oh where Can the DVD be?
ADRIAN BURDESS
Where oh where are the Buffy DVD's or infact the VHS episodes that were
promised are they available now or will it be soon. The problem is thatr
if i have to wait anylonger for my own pesonal digital copy i will have to
go and make them myself!
In case your wondering how its very simple. First take a high qaulity
recording medium such as a Tivo, rewritable dvd, SVHS, VHS etc record said
episode. Then take freely available utilities to encode them to DivX and
stick them on a cd-r you will need a decent machine to play them back andy
PIII or equivilant should be enough. Finally place make your files
available on the Gnutella network should we can al enjoy.
Warner brothers you have been warned. I want my DVD!!!
Ashen Shugar, Last of the Valheru
"ADRIAN BURDESS" <ser...@freeuk.com> wrote in message
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> Hello all
>
> Where oh where are the Buffy DVD's or infact the VHS episodes that were
> <snip>
> Warner brothers you have been warned. I want my DVD!!!
>
>
ASLotV
Ames
like the videotapes, where there are the different formats for the
different countries (VHS, PAL, etc.), or am I wrong? I live in the US,
and would love to get the DVDs through that ezydvd site (I'm thinking
it's cheaper, what with the exchange rate and all), but I have new
technology ignorance. To be honest, I don't even have a DVD player.
Yet.
Oh, please set my mind at ease.....
ames (feelin' quite stupid right now)
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Before you buy.
ADRIAN
However the powers that be have applied a copy protection system that splits
the world into regions. Region 1 is trhe US region 2 is europe and it goes
on. When you buy a DVD player at least in the UK you can get it "modded"
(modified) with a gurantee in most cases to play any dsic from anywhere.
Buy your player from a hifi shop like sevenoaks or whatever and get it
modded when you buy it. They will send away and it will take about a week.
This is called a hadware mod. The cheaper players sometimes offer software
mods which require a simple numeric code via the remote control to make them
region free.
There you go, save money on exchange rates and VAT or GST if you keep your
orders below a certain value.
Region 1 discs are at least in my opnion better value as they are cheaper
and ghave more features but if multilaunguage options are important stick to
region 2 discs or whatever.
Hope that diatribe helps there mate.
"Ames" <ames...@juno.com> wrote in message
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Ian Galbraith
:OK, this is SUCH the dumb question, but a DVD is a DVD, right? It's not
:like the videotapes, where there are the different formats for the
:different countries (VHS, PAL, etc.), or am I wrong? I live in the US,
:and would love to get the DVDs through that ezydvd site (I'm thinking
:it's cheaper, what with the exchange rate and all), but I have new
:technology ignorance. To be honest, I don't even have a DVD player.
:Yet.
Unfortunately DVDs still have the PAL/NTSC division as well as the regional
coding so you would need a PAL compatible player and maybe TV.
Be Seeing You
--
Ian Galbraith
Email: igalb...@ozonline.com.au ICQ#: 7849631
"She made me feel like a human being. Thats not the
kind of thing you just forgive."
- Angelus, Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Don Sample
wrote:
> OK, this is SUCH the dumb question, but a DVD is a DVD, right? It's not
> like the videotapes, where there are the different formats for the
> different countries (VHS, PAL, etc.), or am I wrong? I live in the US,
> and would love to get the DVDs through that ezydvd site (I'm thinking
> it's cheaper, what with the exchange rate and all), but I have new
> technology ignorance. To be honest, I don't even have a DVD player.
> Yet.
>
> Oh, please set my mind at ease.....
>
> ames (feelin' quite stupid right now)
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
DVDs are just digital data, but the data on them is usually encrypted
to make it a little harder for people to copy them, and as part of the
encryption they include "region codes" so that disks will only play in
the region they were released for. (USA and Canada are Region 1,
Western Europe is Region 2, and there are 4 others) The encryption
only really stops Joe Public from making a copy of the DVD for his
friends, something which at the moment costs more than going out and
buying a second legit copy anyway, so it really isn't much of a
problem. It does nothing to stop the serious pirates who will rip off
a few thousand copies of a hit movie.
They also encode the data on the disk in a manner consistant with the
type of TVs used in the region the disk is released for, so a Region 2
disk has 25 frames per second, at PAL screen resolution, and Region 1
disks have 30 frames per second at NTSC screen resolution. This isn't
a problem if you use a computer to play them back (since computer
displays generally don't do either 50 or 60 fps, and are higher res
than either TV format), but Region 2 disks can't be shown using a
standard Region 1 DVD player and TV.
--
Don Sample, dsa...@synapse.net
Visit the Buffy Body Count at http://www.synapse.net/~dsample/BBC
Quando omni flunkus moritati
ADRIAN
Adrian
"Don Sample" <dsa...@synapse.net> wrote in message
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Don Sample
If you live in an area where PAL is the standard then it is likely that
you have a dual standard DVD player. If you live in North America then
it probably only does NTSC, unless you paid about twice as much for it.
ADRIAN
tis region coding fiasco.
Adrian
Todd James
about DVD.
Concerning the PAL/NTSC problem:
It may be the case that a DVD player you buy may allow you to force
either PAL or NTSC output, rather than letting the disk's native coding
decide for you. This is, in fact, the case with the APEX/VDDV AD-600A
DVD player. So, While the region coding might dictate the *likelihood*
of a disk being watched in a certain format (e.g. NTSC for region 1, PAL
for Region 2), it does not necessarily enforce that output format from
the DVD player.
Region Coding:
There are currently hacks available for most DVD players to disable
region coding. These span the range from relatively easy firmware
upgrades (as in the case of several types of PC-DVD players) to actual
hardware mods which must be made (which will violate the warranty). If
you are lucky enough to own one of the early APEX players, you can
disable the region coding feature altogether. I'm told some of these
players can still be had on E-bay, though I've never checked.
Summary:
If you have a standard region 1 player, and you don't want to modify it,
then don't order from Blackstar UK, as they can sell only region 2
disks, even though they can apparently ship anywhere. You'll have to
wait for US region 1 versions.
Also, it may be the case for some shows that the region coding isn't the
only that changes from region to region. I've heard the Farscape DVDs
which are under release in region 2 will not have the same "extras" as
the region 1 disks due to begin release in January.
BTW, One of my favorite links for getting DVD info is
http://www.unik.no/~robert/hifi/dvd/
There is an enormous amount of material available there or linked from
there, although it appears the site owner has stopped updating in recent
months.
Cheers,
Todd