Dr. Who?

[rhienelleth]

Anyone have an idea if a DVD of S1 will be released with Region 1 coding? See, my Mom is a huge, huge, HUGE Doctor fan, and this weekend I was telling her about the new series and she got so excited until I said, "well, it's not airing in the US".

The problem: she is technically impaired, and refuses to even entertain the idea of getting a computer. She just got a DVD player this past X-mas (from us) and so she borrows DVDs from us a bunch and watches them. It wasn't the bestest player out there, so I'm not sure how reliably it will play VCDs, and she doesn't live super locally for me to try it out. Besides, I want to own a copy of S1 that is DVD quality, anyway.

Any news? Ideas for getting around non-region 1 coding?

Comments

[onexbyxone.livejournal.com]

The full set isn't out in the UK until Novemember. *Twitch* It depends on the player how easy it is to make it region free.

[rhienelleth.livejournal.com]

*contemplates investing in multi-region player*
*thinks about the liklihood of husband's pay cut this year*

damn.

[kismeteve.livejournal.com]

I don't think they'll be releasing Region 1 DVD's until the show is shown in the States (and who knows when that will happen). I know some Canadians are a bit peeved about that.

[toronto-kid.livejournal.com]

If you already have a dvd player, Google for region-free hacks on the model #. I found a region free hack for mine that worked fab. Only thing is the hacks can leave your dvd-player in a non-working state.

Also, the sound is kinda ... squeaky. I have the region 2 bsg disks and every single guy has this squeakiness to their voice. My Battle of the Planets set has the audio/video out of sync - but I think that's more due to it being a bad encoding on the manufacturers part than my dvd player.

You could find a region free dvd player -- if you're located in a big city, track down a few of the independant electronic stores or a dollar store that aspires to be an electronic store, and you should find an elcheapo region-free dvd player.

OR

You download the dvd freeware DVDSHRINK, then rerip/burn the dvds without keeping the region encoding, and your region 1 dvd player should player 'em no problem. But your Apollo will still be squeaky.

Dunno what Doctor Who will sound like.