I'm looking for some DVD online stores recommendations, alternative to amazon.co.uk or hmv.com.
It must be UK based for regional coding reasons and English language reasons.
I have been trying to get some of the rarer movies (Derek Jarman's Edward II, for example) but neither of the two is carrying them (well, they carry a Region 1 US version). :(
I think it would be easier for you to buy a Region free/less DVD player.
Quote from: Grey Fox on September 15, 2009, 08:35:12 AM
I think it would be easier for you to buy a Region less DVD player.
I like to have movies that I can watch on my laptop, my iMac and obviously a DVD player, and that I can lend to my friends. That wouldn't work.
First 2 options : Digital copy.
Friends option : lend them the player with it?
play.com
I recommend that you sue the DVD racket over the whole region thing. There's got to be something in your faggoty Euro rights law that prevents that sort of thing. God knows you guys make just about everything illegal, so give it a shot.
Quote from: Grey Fox on September 15, 2009, 08:40:31 AM
Friends option : lend them the player with it?
That's stupid.
If the Dude wants to show off his pretentious movie collection, he has to do what's necessary.
Quote from: Neil on September 15, 2009, 08:41:36 AM
I recommend that you sue the DVD racket over the whole region thing. There's got to be something in your faggoty Euro rights law that prevents that sort of thing. God knows you guys make just about everything illegal, so give it a shot.
Unfortunately, the EU laws apply mostly to obstructions of trade within the EEA, not between the EEA and the outside world. I think because of the EU laws, the Region 2 coding must be viewable in the entire EU, at least, and can't be split (I think the Baltics used to have a different coding).
This is the only Region 2 Edward II I could find, and it's on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Edward-II-Region-2-DVD/dp/B000E8RGMS/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1253023179&sr=1-3
Other good, cheap UK DVD resellers are Lovefilm and Asda. Check kelkoo.co.uk for price comparisons.
Quote from: Brazen on September 15, 2009, 09:02:35 AM
This is the only Region 2 Edward II I could find, and it's on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Edward-II-Region-2-DVD/dp/B000E8RGMS/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1253023179&sr=1-3
Other good, cheap UK DVD resellers are Lovefilm and Asda. Check kelkoo.co.uk for price comparisons.
But it seems to be in Italian (or Spanish) :P
You might want to check the Hong Kong retailers. I had to get Waterloo in Region 0(region-free)
I'll see if I can find the links later.
The details says it's english.
Don't Region 2 dvd require like 5 languages anyway?
Edward II was great, a dumb jock who loved fighting and conspiring but was too moronic to actually succeed at either. He is sorta like the every-man trying to be like Edward I.
Quote from: Martinus on September 15, 2009, 09:04:14 AM
But it seems to be in Italian (or Spanish) :P
When was the last time you bought a Region 2 DVD without having the option to select from a plethora of Euro languages? :rolleyes:
You're just looking to throw a queenish hissy-fit, not for a solution :P
Quote from: Valmy on September 15, 2009, 09:15:10 AM
Edward II was great, a dumb jock who loved fighting and conspiring but was too moronic to actually succeed at either. He is sorta like the every-man trying to be like Edward I.
There's your solution, Mart. Buy two copies of
Edward I.
Quote from: Ed Anger on September 15, 2009, 09:05:45 AM
You might want to check the Hong Kong retailers. I had to get Waterloo in Region 0(region-free)
I'll see if I can find the links later.
And I just remembered I got them through Amazon marketplace. Whoops. :Embarrass:
Quote from: Ed Anger on September 15, 2009, 09:26:20 AM
And I just remembered I got them through Amazon marketplace. Whoops. :Embarrass:
CD Wow's your boy.
One region free Edward II DVD coming up. You can buy me cocktails later :)
http://www.cdwow.com/DVD/EDWARD-II/dp/pc/8025445
Quote from: Valmy on September 15, 2009, 09:15:10 AM
Edward II was great, a dumb jock who loved fighting and conspiring but was too moronic to actually succeed at either. He is sorta like the every-man trying to be like Edward I.
Yeah, but he was rumoured to be a homosexual, and thus is Marti's hero.
Quote from: Neil on September 15, 2009, 09:44:53 AM
Yeah, but he was rumoured to be a homosexual, and thus is Marti's hero.
And those rumours featured in one of Marlowe's best plays :mmm:
Quote from: Neil on September 15, 2009, 09:44:53 AM
Yeah, but he was rumoured to be a homosexual, and thus is Marti's hero.
That is what his enemies said and that was after the fact and Edward II had a few too many bastard children to have not enjoyed breeding it seems to me. He could have been bisexual or he simply just loved his favorite courtiers platonically we will never know for sure...hey he could have been totally gay and just had bastards to keep appearances up. I suppose if Marty needs him to be gay he can be gay.
But hey Mel Gibson certainly thought he was gay, given the ridiculous way he was portrayed in Braveheart.
Quote from: Sheilbh on September 15, 2009, 09:50:51 AM
And those rumours featured in one of Marlowe's best plays :mmm:
Those rumours also led to him being executed by inserting red hot iron into his ass.
Quote from: Sheilbh on September 15, 2009, 09:50:51 AM
Quote from: Neil on September 15, 2009, 09:44:53 AM
Yeah, but he was rumoured to be a homosexual, and thus is Marti's hero.
And those rumours featured in one of Marlowe's best plays :mmm:
And let's just say that since it is Derek Jarman adapting Marlowe's play, it's an all-you-can-eat buffet of gay. :P
Quote from: Valmy on September 15, 2009, 09:51:56 AM
Quote from: Neil on September 15, 2009, 09:44:53 AM
Yeah, but he was rumoured to be a homosexual, and thus is Marti's hero.
That is what his enemies said and that was after the fact and Edward II had a few too many bastard children to have not enjoyed breeding it seems to me. He could have been bisexual or he simply just loved his favorite courtiers platonically we will never know for sure...hey he could have been totally gay and just had bastards to keep appearances up. I suppose if Marty needs him to be gay he can be gay.
But hey Mel Gibson certainly thought he was gay, given the ridiculous way he was portrayed in Braveheart.
It is a movie adapting a Marlowe's play, not a historical biopic.
It's like Lion in Winter.
Quote from: Martinus on September 15, 2009, 10:04:45 AM
And let's just say that since it is Derek Jarman adapting Marlowe's play, it's an all-you-can-eat buffet of gay. :P
Dang I thought you were becoming interested in Plantagenet history :(
;)
Quote from: Brazen on September 15, 2009, 09:29:29 AM
Quote from: Ed Anger on September 15, 2009, 09:26:20 AM
And I just remembered I got them through Amazon marketplace. Whoops. :Embarrass:
CD Wow's your boy.
One region free Edward II DVD coming up. You can buy me cocktails later :)
http://www.cdwow.com/DVD/EDWARD-II/dp/pc/8025445
Sorry hun, but the first line of the description reads: "Not to be confused with the 1992 Derek Jarman feature of the same title, "
Not that I mind buying you a drink anyway. ;)
Quote from: Grey Fox on September 15, 2009, 08:43:53 AM
If the Dude wants to show off his pretentious movie collection, he has to do what's necessary.
Which reminds me, I need to get my "Satyricon" back. <_<
Quote from: Valmy on September 15, 2009, 09:21:59 AM
Turkish and Arabic?
If they're used in Eurovision, they're European languages :P
Quote from: Valmy on September 15, 2009, 09:53:36 AM
Quote from: Sheilbh on September 15, 2009, 09:50:51 AM
And those rumours featured in one of Marlowe's best plays :mmm:
Those rumours also led to him being executed by inserting red hot iron into his ass.
You never can account for taste. Some people are interested in the lethal anal branding, I'm into the remarkable early modern literary heritage :mellow:
Quote from: Sheilbh on September 15, 2009, 10:28:55 AM
You never can account for taste. Some people are interested in the lethal anal branding, I'm into the remarkable early modern literary heritage :mellow:
Fine hold contempt for my interest in your own country's history.
Quote from: Valmy on September 15, 2009, 10:31:24 AM
Quote from: Sheilbh on September 15, 2009, 10:28:55 AM
You never can account for taste. Some people are interested in the lethal anal branding, I'm into the remarkable early modern literary heritage :mellow:
Fine hold contempt for my interest in your own country's history.
Isn't this your country's history too?
Quote from: Martinus on September 15, 2009, 08:36:57 AM
Quote from: Grey Fox on September 15, 2009, 08:35:12 AM
I think it would be easier for you to buy a Region less DVD player.
I like to have movies that I can watch on my laptop, my iMac and obviously a DVD player, and that I can lend to my friends. That wouldn't work.
Be it for the laptop or for the iMac, VLC is the solution to read whatever region DVDs
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-macosx.html (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-macosx.html)
Also, unfortunately, the external sellers' website on amazon.co.uk doesn't deliver to Poland. :mad:
Quote from: Martinus on September 16, 2009, 06:44:13 AM
Also, unfortunately, the external sellers' website on amazon.co.uk doesn't deliver to Poland. :mad:
Oh no. Then you'll just have to get it sent to me and visit London. Bummer.