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dhtreptow	Re: Region free? why not?	#41	[-]
Mar 30 07 2:44 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	*Quote:* For me, sure I could unlock the codes, buy a new region free player, yadda yadda yadda. But I just hate the idea of "having" to be forced to buy another region disc, when everything should be available on R1. Also factoring in is that there is nothing unavailable to R1 that I desperately need to own. Everything I used to desire which originally was not avaialbe here HAS made it to R1 eventually, and I expect everything else I want will, too. As of this point, the ONLY thing that has ever swayed me was the complete Laurel and Hardy Hal Roach collections. But even in that case, I have them on VHS in the meantime. Also, some of the other-region discs I've seen on friends' players in the past looked pretty unreliable. Well, there is still, Goke, The Body Snatcher from Hell Haunting of Julia Reflecting Skin The Nanny 10 Rillington Place Flesh and Fantasy Magnificent Ambersons The 20 DVD L&H collection Blood on Satan's Claw Vampire Circus Hands of the Ripper Twins of Evil Curse of the Mummy's Tomb Jack The Ripper The Restored Faust Crimson Cult Island of Terror The Sorcerers Witchfinder General Vault of Horror Dr. Terrors House of Horrors Incredible Melting Man Shivers Rabid The Uncanny Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism Picture of Dorian Gray The Cremator Cauldron of Blood 1984 (Eurythmics score) Warriors (original cut) Salo
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Joe Karlosi	Re: Region free? why not?	#42	[-]
Mar 30 07 5:35 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Great. But of the list above, all I'd really want from it (aside from the L&H set, as I already discussed) are: Vampire Circus Hands of the Ripper Twins of Evil Curse of the Mummy's Tomb Crimson Cult The Sorcerers Vault of Horror Dr. Terrors House of Horrors Cauldron of Blood I just recently obtained a nice DVD-R letterboxed of DR. TERROR'S HOUSE OF HORRORS. I already own good VHS or DVD-R copies of the others (a few were presumably taken from laserdiscs), and even these I rarely watch at all. I can't recall the last time I had the desire to pop any of them into the player. Summing it up, I can wait for R1, and even if it never happens, I'm fine. ---------------------- "It's MORE ... than a hobby!"
killer meteor	Re: Region free? why not?	#43	[-]
Mar 30 07 6:30 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Region coding is the work of the Devil I'm in the UK - where the genre selection is poor - and my Sony multi region player - which was less than £60 - was a Godsend. The Region 1 market is fantastic and having a multi region player gives me access to HK (region 3) and Australian (Region 4) DVDs. Want Destroy All Monsters with subs. Get it from Australia I think I can see where Joe is coming from about prioritizing Region 1. The uncertainty of the avalaibility of niche label's products means I prioritize them ahead of mainstream cinema.
Proglodite	Re: Region free? why not?	#44	[-]
Mar 30 07 7:16 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Don't give up on that Magnavox yet. I had originally run a Yahoo search on my Toshiba and none of the sites were useful. I then ran a Google search and the first site that popped up with hack codes had one that worked. Sometimes you have to dig a little harder, but no one site has all the hack codes. Of course, there are some players that are un-hackable (my Sony 5-disc player...) Peter
dhtreptow	Re: Region free? why not?	#45	[-]
Mar 30 07 10:55 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Speaking of I got notice from Amazon UK that none other than Night of the Eagle AKA Burn Witch, Burn! will come out April 30. Oh my! BURN WITCH, BURN!
dhtreptow	Re: Region free? why not?	#46	[-]
Mar 30 07 11:01 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	*Quote:* Region coding is the work of the Devil Well, I hope if and when the Hi-def bug bites you, that you don't fall for all the Sony hype and choose Blu-ray over the region-free HD-DVD.
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killer meteor	Yeah...	#47	[-]
Mar 30 07 11:20 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	If I do go HD - don't think I will for a few years - I'll go for whichever format is multi region. Somehow I doubt Sony will change their ways
JPChe	????????	#48	[-]
Mar 30 07 12:26 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	RABID is available on region 1 DVD--not sure why it's on the list . . .
dhtreptow	Re: ????????	#49	[-]
Mar 30 07 1:15 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	*Quote:* RABID is available on region 1 DVD--not sure why it's on the list . I thought it was oop, my mistake if it's not.
JPChe	Re: ????????	#50	[-]
Mar 30 07 1:33 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	The original fullscreen disk is OOP, but the widescreen release is still in print.
JimPV	Re: Region-free and loving it!	#51	[-]
Mar 30 07 8:17 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I can't imagine being tied to R1, NTSC. Oh man - I couldn't do it, I tell ya'! Another option for all of you that don't have a region-free player: you can download DVD Decrypter and DVD Shrink to you computer (both are freeware easily available online), and burn region-free copies. You of course do have to have a DVD burner in your computer (they're pretty cheap these days), and it has to be region-free (I've got "DVD Region+CSS Free"). It's also true it can't do anything about PAL encoding, But you can still watch PAL discs on your computer. It doesn't care whether it's PAL or NTSC. "How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone" -Coco Chanel
scortch	Re: Region-free and loving it!	#52	[-]
Apr 3 07 7:04 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	In addition, just for viewing purposes, you can set your computer's DVD drive to R2 (and back to R1- but only a limited number of times before it locks in at one or the other). Untill I figure which region free player to buy, this is how I've been watching my R2's. Soon, though, very soon... (although the Taxman is not helping this year!)
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