Calling all Uk freedivers (lol)

[joe123321]

Alrighty so heres the deal...

As some of you know, the Planet Earth doccumentrys have begun to show in the united states. But they have one major flaw, David Attenborough is not the narrator!!!!!:rcard Sigourney weaver is the narrator for our version. Now I Have nothing against her, but attenborough was born to narrate! Well this would not be too big of a problem, as I plan to buy the set, Ill just get discovery to send me the uk version. But they won't send me the uk version So if any one of you guys in The Uk would be kind enough to purchase their version of planet earth, and then send me the set in exchange for The 80$ cost.

If anyone Is willing to help me out, we can bump out the details through pms.

If this is a bad idea then I am sorry, im desperate.

 

[virtualdescent]

I'm not in the uk but you can try checking amazon.co.uk or ebay.co.uk. The region of the UK version might not play on your DVD player though

 

[bdurrett]

I'm not in the uk but you can try checking amazon.co.uk or ebay.co.uk. The region of the UK version might not play on your DVD player though

The UK DVD will most assuredly NOT play in your DVD player unless you have been able to have the code checking stripped out and will also probably NOT play on your PC DVD player wither (maybe under LINUX but not Windows - DRM and all that rubbish), The US is DVD "Region 1" and Europe is "Region 2" DVD players are programmed to only play stuff out of their own region unless certain measures have been implemented to "solve" the issue. The "Region" code is burned into the DVD itself as part of the preamble......

Bret

 

[joe123321]

Dang Well thanks for the info guys.

 

[fogish]

If you buy it you can make a backup copy of it that is region free and then it will play in your DVD player. You just have to make sure it will be able to be copied with your DVD copy software. Another option is buying a region free DVD player. My DVD player is region free, I was lucky and the manufacturer forgot to make it region specific on my model but they fixed that rather quickly, but there are manufacturers that sell region free DVD players.

 

[BennyB]

Hunt around on Google and you can make your dvd player region free. Usually a code input into your remote does the trick.

Cheers,
Ben

 

[Lockedin]

I thought that the issue would be NTSC (US Video Standard) vs. PAL (European Video Standard). Or is that taken care of thru the .mpg-2 decoding these days?

If it turns out to be format incompatibility, you can find a dub-house that can burn you a NTSC disc from the PAL version.

 

[Old Man Dave]

I converted all my euro DVD players to play all regions so as to play stuff I bought on hols in the States. You look up on the net and get a code to imput into the machine. Have done it to different makes of machine with total success. It's really easy. I think it's only video that has the the PAL/ NTSC issue. Don't know about computer DVD players. Not nerdy enough I guess.

See if you can convert your machine to all region first and I'm sure someone will get you a copy.

Dave