I know it is slightly off topic, but could anyone please tell me whether there will also be R2 release, or should I buy a region-free DVD-player?

Celebithil | February 01, 20:38 CET

Well since Wonderfalls hasn't aired in the UK yet the chances of a region 2 release aren't great, certainly not in the near future at any rate. At the moment I'm trying to decide where to import my set from :)

Paul_Rocks | February 01, 20:41 CET

dvdsoon.com

Works out about £13.70, plus a few dollars for p&p.

Or the reliable play.com, 18 quid from them, so no customs charges.

Hollowman | February 01, 20:57 CET

I won't be buying mine til March. If anyone gets it, do you know if the video quality is as good as the Firefly release? I read it wasn't. But its probably better than the broadcast PQ.

eddy | February 01, 20:57 CET

Currently looking at dvdimport.com where it's £13.46 with free postage but of course there's the import duty issues

Paul_Rocks | February 01, 21:07 CET

I got this in the mail yesterday. It was a birthday gift from a friend.

electricspacegirl | February 01, 21:11 CET

Celebithil, if you can only get it on R1, you can try to 'decode' your DVD player. I've never done it before but it can be done on a lot of DVD players. It makes it a multizone or region-free player, but honestly I don't really know enough about it to recommend it too highly.

buffbuff | February 01, 21:24 CET

Got mine last Monday from playusa, not quite sure how it happens but sometimes I get imported stuff weeks before it's US release.

I really doubt it'll get a UK release, so I'd recommend importing it.

As I understand it, you only get charged import duties for items that come to over £18 (If you order more than one item Play send items seperately, so you just need to look at the price of each item, Amazon send items together, and if the total comes to over £18 (not sure if postage is included) you risk getting taxed). Bloody annoying, 'cos as well as having to pay an extra £10 or so, it slows down delivery by about a week, you don't always get caught though, (I've had big boxsets at about £40, get past the tax-man, yet had ones that don't look much bigger than a normal DVD, get caught) all a matter of luck I think.

With the US currency being as weak compared to the pound as it is at the moment, importing R1 DVDs is really quite cheap.

Hacking a player is easy, providing that the player has a hack, it'll be easilly found with a Yahoo search.

[ edited by Ghost Spike on 2005-02-01 19:30 ]

Ghost Spike | February 01, 21:28 CET

I did look at playusa but they're currently out of stock so I'm gonna give dvdimport a go. I have also gotten some rather expensive packages (of cds mainly) past the taxman and also had them caught so it is just luck.

Paul_Rocks | February 01, 21:34 CET

And a highly favorable review of the "Wonderfalls" DVD, whose significance is:
1) It's MY home paper (and it just got sold today so we won't have a locally owned newspaper any more: bummer)
2) Gail Pennington, the TV critic, has hardly ever even mentioned a Joss series
3) And yet she even mentions "Firefly" here. (Even she!)
The URL for the actual article is a mile long, but click on:

link

and scroll down to Gail Pennington's name and face shown on the right screen column.

[ edited by herb on 2005-02-01 23:24 ]

hako | February 02, 00:32 CET

The URL for the actual article is a mile long, but click on:

link

Unfortunately the link gets you a 'directory browsing not allowed' message.

Ruadh | February 02, 01:01 CET

Ruadh, I got the same thing, but I clicked the main url link (provided on the error page) and I was able to spot the link to the review on the main page, down the right column.

brownishcoat | February 02, 01:20 CET

hako's link has been fixed.

herb | February 02, 01:25 CET

hako's link has been fixed.

Thanks. That was well worth reading.

Thankfully I've seen all 13 episodes on Canadian TV, 'cause I've just realised that Amazon has bundled my DVD with the Angel one that I ordered at the same time, so I won't get it for 2 weeks!

Ruadh | February 02, 02:06 CET