Whats Happening: Audio Vision Melbourne
Eamon Guinan
If there is anyone out there who can help me it would be
appreciated. What is happening to Audio Vision in Glenhuntly Road,
Elsternwick. I know they supposedly had a fire a few months back, but
there is no answer of any phones and i don't live close enough just to
pop in and see whats happening. Basically i am concerned as i have a
number of fully paid laserdiscs on back-order (for three months now). If
they don't do something soon, even if they do go back into business,
their going to lose a lot of pissed of regular customers.
If anyone knows anything please email me at ekgu...@deakin.edu.au
CYA EG
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Bruce Probst wrote:
>
> On Tue, 12 Aug 1997 11:13:05 +1100, Eamon Guinan
> <ekgu...@deakin.edu.au> wrote:
>
> >If there is anyone out there who can help me it would be
> >appreciated. What is happening to Audio Vision in Glenhuntly Road,
> >Elsternwick. I know they supposedly had a fire a few months back, but
> >there is no answer of any phones and i don't live close enough just to
> >pop in and see whats happening. Basically i am concerned as i have a
> >number of fully paid laserdiscs on back-order (for three months now). If
> >they don't do something soon, even if they do go back into business,
> >their going to lose a lot of pissed of regular customers.
>
> goodbye.
>
The Stephen Luckins/Audiovision story is a very sad one. He was taken to
court by the so-called Film Security office and lost about $100K. I
think Audiovision have been less than careful in its approach. Selling
NTSC LDs in Australia is illegal without the proper authority. Only
Disney and Warners have relaxed their prohibition on NTSC discs...but
you still must get their approval unless you're importing for personal
use.
We've got a few LD retailers here in Sydney who seem to be able to do
the right thing and keep from being prosecuted. The one I go to has been
in business for years and last year turned-over $3 million.
According to a recent newspaper, someone in Melbourne got raided by the
Federal Police and had about a 1000 LDs confiscated...who might that
have been?
--
TODD J PIERCE
There's a used book dealer, in the city center, who also sells LDs. I'm
not from Melbourne, but have been there a few times. It's on one of the
main streets that the trams run on. they have a few used discs, some of
which are sold as used, but are still sealed. Also, it was somewhere
around the woolworths, or to put it this way, its half way between the
the big (ie country) train station and Cook's Cottage.
Good luck
Todd
On Sat, 16 Aug 1997, cameron reid wrote:
> Date: Sat, 16 Aug 1997 02:25:55 +1000
> From: cameron reid <cr...@ozemail.com.au>
> Newsgroups: alt.video.laserdisc
> Subject: Re: Whats Happening: Audio Vision Melbourne
> Can any one recommend a good, LEGAL, laser disc dealer in Melbourne?
>
>
Laurence Chiu
In article <33F48313...@ozemail.com.au>,
cameron reid <cr...@ozemail.com.au> wrote:
>> According to a recent newspaper, someone in Melbourne got raided by the
>> Federal Police and had about a 1000 LDs confiscated...who might that
>> have been?
>>
>> --
>
>
>Can any one recommend a good, LEGAL, laser disc dealer in Melbourne?
Based on the information in this post, there isn't such a thing as a
legal LD dealer in Australia. Otherwise why would they all be getting
progressively busted? Draconian measures to be sure but somebody is
protecting their copyright holdings.
____________________________________________________________
Laurence Chiu : lc...@actrix.gen.nz <===note address
Greg Roach
>If there is anyone out there who can help me it would be
>appreciated. What is happening to Audio Vision in Glenhuntly Road,
>Elsternwick. I know they supposedly had a fire a few months back, but
>there is no answer of any phones and i don't live close enough just to
>pop in and see whats happening. Basically i am concerned as i have a
>number of fully paid laserdiscs on back-order (for three months now). If
>they don't do something soon, even if they do go back into business,
>their going to lose a lot of pissed of regular customers.
>
>If anyone knows anything please email me at ekgu...@deakin.edu.au
>
>CYA EG
To my best knowledge (which is not that great) I heard the owner (I
don't know who) took off with the insurance money and is now doing
something else. Don't know what is happening with pre-paid orders
though. Dont hold me to this as it is just what I have heard from
someone else.
Greg Roach
Bruce Probst
>Can any one recommend a good, LEGAL, laser disc dealer in Melbourne?
Start with D.I.A. who have a shopfront in Ormond. Their web page is
www.dia.com.au, they have another page which references various LD
shops around Australia.
Starbuck's in Northcote is pretty good.
Bruce Probst Melbourne, Australia
bpr...@vitgbsd3.telstra.com.au
Opinions expressed are personal, and do not represent the official
views of either IBM GSA or Telstra.
Bruce Probst
>There's a used book dealer, in the city center, who also sells LDs. I'm
>not from Melbourne, but have been there a few times. It's on one of the
>main streets that the trams run on. they have a few used discs, some of
>which are sold as used, but are still sealed. Also, it was somewhere
>around the woolworths, or to put it this way, its half way between the
>the big (ie country) train station and Cook's Cottage.
Sounds like Batman's Books, who do sell used LDs but they price them
like they're made of gold. I wouldn't recommend purchasing from there
unless you saw a hard-to-get LD that you were prepared to pay big $$$
for.
Bruce Probst
>Based on the information in this post, there isn't such a thing as a
>legal LD dealer in Australia. Otherwise why would they all be getting
>progressively busted? Draconian measures to be sure but somebody is
>protecting their copyright holdings.
Fortunately there's a lot more than the "information in this post" to
go by. D.I.A. have an arrangement with several of the studios (and
one would hope are working on the others) to legally import and resell
NTSC LDs. The LDs that they import for resale have little stickers on
them with the Australian ratings (i.e., PG, M, etc.) and a studio logo
with "official NTSC import" or something like that.
stephen...@gmail.com
I was the owner of Audio Vision and no one, and certainly not I took off with any insurance money.
Stephen Luckins
cosmos...@yahoo.com
> On Sunday, August 17, 1997 5:00:00 PM UTC+10, Greg Roach wrote:
> > On Tue, 12 Aug 1997 11:13:05 +1100, Eamon Guinan
> > <ekgui...@deakin.edu.au> wrote:
>
> > >If there is anyone out there who can help me it would be
> > >appreciated. What is happening to Audio Vision in Glenhuntly Road,
> > >Elsternwick. I know they supposedly had a fire a few months back, but
> > >there is no answer of any phones and i don't live close enough just to
> > >pop in and see whats happening. Basically i am concerned as i have a
> > >number of fully paid laserdiscs on back-order (for three months now). If
> > >they don't do something soon, even if they do go back into business,
> > >their going to lose a lot of pissed of regular customers.
>
> > >CYA EG
>
> > To my best knowledge (which is not that great) I heard the owner (I
> > don't know who) took off with the insurance money and is now doing
> > something else. Don't know what is happening with pre-paid orders
> > though. Dont hold me to this as it is just what I have heard from
> > someone else.
>
> > Greg Roach
>
> Well I would not believe such rubbish.
> I was the owner of Audio Vision and no one, and certainly not I took off with any insurance money.
> Stephen Luckins
bit late in the game? Perhaps 15 years ago would have been more
timely.
Ah well, all of the laserdisc discussion has moved to the LDDB forums
anyway. I hope you at least have a LD player - this is, after all,
alt.video.laserdisc :) . Even a lowly CLD-S104 will do (a HLD-X0 will
confer godhood). DVD never happened here, and the almighty LD still
reigns supreme in all of it's analog glory. Maybe it is still 1997
after all: LDs are much cooler than buying a DVD/Bluray in one of
those damn flimsy, disposable cases hollowed out by a "recycle"
symbol...
basa...@gmail.com
stephen...@gmail.com
I am on Facebook, and can be emailed directly at stephen...@hotmail.com.
If you have an issue,then contact me, rather than call me names!
I am happy to meet with anyone that thinks that they have an issue with me.
Take care,
Stephen Luckins
stephen...@gmail.com
Why are you hiding YOUR name & email address???