DVD players
Karen Lofstrom
wisdom and who knows? maybe we'll get some writing mileage out of it.
I've been wanting to see some Indian movies after reading Vikram
Seth's _A Suitable Boy_ and searched here and there with no success. I
found a website this evening that sells a HUGE list of Indian movies
at $19.99. Including Deedar, starring Nargis, prominently mentioned in
_A Suitable Boy_. Only problem, all their movies are on DVD and I
don't have a DVD player.
In a fit of financial insanity, I ordered Deedar anyway, figuring I
could then spend ten times as much to get a DVD player. Researching
things at CNet, I found that there's a huge price difference between
DVD players set to play things sold locally and DVD players that will
play DVDs from anywhere. Like an extra $300 or so. I want to buy the
cheaper, local-code-only one, but I'm afraid I'll regret it if I
do. Because I would love to be able to order gung-fu movies from Hong
Kong and anime from Japan. I think. If I can afford it.
Are there any DVD aficionados here? What do you advise?
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Jonathan W Hendry
> Sigh. Lucky canny you. I should have bought then. Now they're
> collector's items on Ebay, I hear. Panasonic does have a few models
> advertised as "region-free" but the price is $500 or so.
What steams my butt is that, in Europe, you can actually buy
widescreen TVs for reasonable prices (~500 UKP). Here in the
US, you have to buy a bloody useless HDTV set for $3000. And
most of them are much bigger than the 24" and 28" widescreen
sets you can get in Europe.
Feh.
David Given
ada...@libero.attenzionetogliquesto.it (Anna Feruglio Dal Dan) writes:
[...]
> Sony Playstation Two had a "bug" that allowed it to play all regions.
> There were pressures to have it recalled and modified and people all
> over the world are clamoring to have one, me among them. But I guess
> that when it will become available here the region-free glitch will have
> been corrected. Sigh.
Well, here in the UK, it's actually quite hard to get an *un*chipped
player. Players are designed so that you can chip them trivially --- for
example, one brand has a debug socket situated conveniently under an
air vent, so you stick a tiny PCB in the slot and it suddenly works. All
the mail order people will sell you prechipped players, under warrenty
even. One of the only places where you can get unchipped players is in
high-street shops, and if you buy any consumer electronics from them,
you're an idiot.
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Jonathan W Hendry
> On 12 Jun 2000 09:28:44 -0600, Jonathan W Hendry
> <jhe...@ux1.depaul.edu> wrote:
>>Karen Lofstrom <lofs...@lava.net> wrote:
>>> Sigh. Lucky canny you. I should have bought then. Now they're
>>> collector's items on Ebay, I hear. Panasonic does have a few models
>>> advertised as "region-free" but the price is $500 or so.
>>
>>What steams my butt is that, in Europe, you can actually buy
>>widescreen TVs for reasonable prices (~500 UKP). Here in the
>>US, you have to buy a bloody useless HDTV set for $3000. And
> As I was told last year in Seattle, HDTV is going to spread in the
> next four or five years. Some TV stations broadcast in HDTV,
> experimentally.
Yeah, but all there is to watch is, like, Jay Leno. And, in the
end, it's just the same crap it always was, just at higher
resolution. I ain't paying $3,000 for *that*.
I just wanna watch letterbox DVD movies on a letterbox TV that's
reasonably priced. The Europeans get to, why can't we?
I even looked into buying a European set and Euro DVD
player. Format conversion isn't an issue, since I'm
only interested in watching movies, not cable or broadcast.
It's silly. They should sell widescreen non-HDTV sets in
the US until set prices drop. Then they could introduce
HDTV and it'd be a cheaper step up. Instead, they
think they're going to generate demand for HDTV by selling
a handful of giant overpriced TVs the size of a volkswagen
bug.
Feh.
Vlatko Juric-Kokic
<jhe...@ux1.depaul.edu> wrote:
>Karen Lofstrom <lofs...@lava.net> wrote:
>> Sigh. Lucky canny you. I should have bought then. Now they're
>> collector's items on Ebay, I hear. Panasonic does have a few models
>> advertised as "region-free" but the price is $500 or so.
>
>What steams my butt is that, in Europe, you can actually buy
>widescreen TVs for reasonable prices (~500 UKP). Here in the
>US, you have to buy a bloody useless HDTV set for $3000. And
As I was told last year in Seattle, HDTV is going to spread in the
next four or five years. Some TV stations broadcast in HDTV,
experimentally.
vlatko
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