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In Reply to: RE: Let me tell you, some films are real good, but " The Third man " is-- posted by patrickU on May 20, 2008 at 11:13:25
-------------Call it, friendo.
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Well I look in Germany, 99% pop corn movies, ok 95%...
" Mieux vaut une tête bien faite qu'une tête bien pleine."
...there are many remarkable films available on Blu-ray, including Pan's Labyrinth, Babel, No Country for Old Men, Letters from Iwo Jima, Dog Day Afternoon, Goodfellas, The Prestige, Unforgiven, Master and Commander, Oldboy and many documentaries. It's not all garbage.
-------------Call it, friendo.
Early reviews for both discs are very positive-I may have to pick up both.
Paul McGann's 2004 film In My Father's Den is one of the best Kiwi movies ever made, and one of the best films of 2004. It ranks with Once Were Warriors, Heavenly Creatures, The Piano. Winner at Toronto International and several other prominent fests - alas, it isn't available in the US except as an import from R2 or R4. Highly recommend this title.
Also available in Region B is the BBC production of Bleak House, certainly worth a view. Criterion is also preparing its first BD releases.
For these BDs, as well as Master & Commander, Goodfellas, The Searchers, Pride & Prejudice, Great Epectations (Lean), Black Narcissus and several others, I'm going to have to get a BD player, one that converts PAL> NTSC.
of the BD hat is region free.
Available at Xploited Cinema
Jack
...for all intents and purposes, just re-packaged for Oz and NZ, you lucky dogs. The German version is Region free, and in PAL. This is the same mastering, same set - note it even has German subtitles.
It's all the same to me technically since I gotta have a BD player that does PAL> NTSC whether I order from Holland or Xploited Cinema.
Anyway, thanks for the update. Seems ridiculous that The Price Of Milk is released in US on DVD but not IMFD - also a mortal shame the director passed away soon after it made the festival rounds and won all those prizes. Glad I got to see IMFD at a film festival.
> > > It's all the same to me technically since I gotta have a BD player that does PAL> NTSC whether I order from Holland or Xploited Cinema. < < <
There is no PAL or NTSC for BD.
Jack
I should explain "gotta". The PAL> NTSC is for my DVDs only. But I want *one* machine that will play BDs and R1-2-4 DVDs. I have many standard DVDs from UK/Europe and a couple from R4 that I doubt will be on BD any time soon. I hate having so many boxes to play movies, hate hooking up so much stuff. I can live with it short term, but I don't like it.
I wish Oppo had their BD model ready but that probably won't happen any time soon.
Since it looks like the Oz/German discs were the same, it doesn't matter where it comes from for my purposes. But for the 20-30 other non R1 standard DVDs I really need that BD region free, DVD PAL> NTSC thing. So far the only ones I've seen available from HK or Europe are $800-1000.
The good news is that so far all of the Europe only BDs I want are region free.
I'm in the same boat. I probably have hundreds of imported DVDs, and right now, I have 3 players under my TV.
Jack
Many TVs can handle both PAL and NTSC inputs. My Denon DVD player happily outputs either PAL or NTSC and my TV accepts both. Ditto for my PS3. The Denon's front panel display happily states that the output is 480 i or p for NTSC discs and 576 i or p for PAL depending on whether I let it do the de-interlacing. My display doesn't care.
Hell, I'm in Australia which is Region 4 with a PAL standard def TV system and some of the studios even release some Region 4 discs in NTSC. People don't look, they simply pop them in their players and the TV looks after it. Most people probably don't even know what they're doing and have never heard of PAL or NTSC. The studios could only get away with it if the TVs and displays were capable of handling both signals.
Check your display's manual and I suspect you'll find there is no problem.
David Aiken
The vast majority of TVs in US are not PAL compatible. Never have been. In fact, I'd say 99.9% of displays sold in retail outlets can't display PAL - there are some front projecters that are exceptions and there may be specialty dealers still importing Loewens (doubtful, haven't seen any of these CRT German TVs in about 7 years). There were a few CRT Sampos sold a few years ago, but they're long gone and your average person never knew they existed. Most people here have no idea there are even diferent video standards.The TVs that ordinary consumers see at their local electronics stores definitely don't do PAL. Plus many of the DVD players available in stores are set to R1 and aren't region free without hacks - plenty of players don't even have a conversion capability. Some that do don't do it very well. You have to research what players do what out of the box and which have hack codes.
Several online sellers, including Amazon, sell DVD region free converting players. There used to be a specialty dealer selling NTSC/PAL/SECAM tvs on the net - smallish 4:3 aspect ratio CRT TVs targeted for people moving from US to foreign lands. Extremely exxpensive for mediocre, outdated TVs when people can get a much better display that does NTSC and PAL at their destination.
Y'all are lucky in Oz and Europe. It's assumed you'll be watching imported discs. In North American it's just the opposite, it's assumed we won't.
That's why many of us are eagerly awaiting the BD player from Oppo, which will have BD capability, superior DVD upscaling and outstanding PAL> NTSC conversion.
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No not all. But how long will it take to see the real films?
I take my time until.
And I must say that the Krell DVD is not only having a good picture and with a good made film an excellent one it also have a sound that I certainly not get from another Ray Blue player so easily.
" Mieux vaut une tête bien faite qu'une tête bien pleine."
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