A Trade Perhaps???

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Posted: Sat May 05, 2007 4:35 pm

Educ8, the wonderful woman who puts up with me, is sort of a techno-tard and made the mistake of buying the special 2-disc DVD of "Braveheart" while in Scotland, thinking it would be nice to watch it when we returned. She put it in the DVD player, and, as you guessed, it says "WRONG REGION" when she tried to play it. So, if any of my fine UK comrades (did I mention I joined the communist party to get a free T-shirt in Glasgow?) would like to have this DVD, I propose the following trade: Educ8 collects Campbell Shortbread Tins (she's a decendant of the forked-tongue Campbell clan). She claims there are a couple with Teddy Bears on them. If someone would pick these up, estimate the cost to send them to my US drop Addy, I will send you this DVD and enough money to send the tins to the US. Any Takers??

419Eater Admin Joined: 30 Sep 2003 Posts: 7469

What's your player R8?

http://www.dvd.reviewer.co.uk/forums/default.asp?Forum=176

Posted: Sat May 05, 2007 5:17 pm

@ Reprob8

Not in the UK... but if you actually did sign up with the communist party I want to see the shirt. Laughing

Just curious if you could get away with wearing it in the USA and what it looks like.

Posted: Sat May 05, 2007 5:30 pm

Reprob8 wrote:

did I mention I joined the communist party to get a free T-shirt in Glasgow?

Posted: Sat May 05, 2007 6:21 pm

@Reprob8

Don't tell anyone, but there are plenty of nifty little programs out there that will change to region code to 0. Just copy the DVD to a hard disk, run the program and burn a new DVD.

Works like a charm. Or so a friend told me. Wink

Posted: Sat May 05, 2007 6:42 pm

As kleindoofy says, there are plenty of free programs out there <cough> dvd shrink </cough> that can create your legal backup copy and in the process remove the region code.

Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 3:55 am

Me, Lacking any and all subtleties:

Blurt out "Simply use dv*d*shri*nk*3.2"

ditch the stars and google it.

I copy a lot of US DVD's and send them to my son in Europe this way because of the region encoding.

cheers.

Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 4:19 am

If you still want I'll keep my eyes open for your tins!

B-S

Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 8:26 am

Geez, down here we just 'fix' the DVD player to read all regions, soblem prolved . . .

heheheheh

** ACCOUNT CLOSED ** Joined: 15 Apr 2007 Posts: 763

Katipo wrote:

Geez, down here we just 'fix' the DVD player to read all regions, soblem prolved . . .

heheheheh

. . . or you buy a region free DVD player . . . from a . . . um . . . "reputable dealer."

[At this point he would normally rant against the whole concept since many fine films do not get released in the United States, such as the wonderful Australian film The Castle, and various excellent "Chopsocki," that would run 47 pages.--Ed.]

--J.D.

Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 10:43 am

AutoGK <--Much better than D\/Dshr1nk

Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 10:47 am

Doctor X wrote:

such as the wonderful Australian film The Castle,
--J.D.

I love that film!! We even built a pool room so things we love can go straight into it!

Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 11:23 am

Tell him he's dreaming. How's the serenity. Cool