Wednesday, March 20, 2002
I was looking at amazon and considering the idea of getting the Hitchcock collection on dvd yesterday; I remembered that Owen sent me an email recently about other sources for dvds:
My favourite DVD region comparison site is www.dvdcompare.org.uk
who have been around for several years.
For R2 discs and some R1 plus CDs I buy from www.play247.com who are an outfit in Jersey (so UK postage for returns).
For other R1 discs that Play247 don't stock I use www.movietyme.com
who are sufficiently UK centric in their business that returns for damaged
discs go to a UK postal address. Movietyme also stock occasional Region 3
discs (Malayasia and that area) when it happens to be out first or the best
version of the film. "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" was out first on R3
and sold so well on export that the R3 disc was remastered with both the
english subtitles and english dubbed soundtrack removed (anyone would think
they don't want to make money).
For R4 discs I use www.ezydvd.com.au which are cheap (Aussie dollar
is weak) and usually the post turns up in about a week which is much better
than from the USA!
In case you don't know and it matters with your Playstation, R3 is NTSC
like R1 whereas R4 is PAL.
