Red Dwarf
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Rather than hijack the JoCoPedia thread again, time to start a new thread:
Previously on Red Dwarf dicussions:
I discovered at the UK concert that Jonathan had never heard of (let-alone seen) Red Dwarf.
I mentioned I had considered buying a DVD to give to Jonathan next time I see him, but the region 1 DVDs are more than double the Region 2 ones on play.
Christophano said I should ask Jonathan if he had a multi-region DVD player
I thought it unlikely, and also thought it would make me sound like a weirdo if I askedSo anyway, I decided to sound like a weirdo, and it turns out Jonathan is indeed Region 1 only. Although, he didn’t figure out why I had asked, my clever ploy to tack the question on the end of another email worked!
Guess it region 1 that needs to be got.
Quick poll; how many of our brethren across the pond have multi region DVD players? Do you find they’re common?
I’d say they’re pretty common over here (I have one, I think Jon Who and Kerrin said they had one… or am I making it up?) so do you think it’s just because things are very often released in America first, so multiregion players are popular over here so we can take advantage of that?
Anyhow, your secret is blown if his Coultonnes ever gets a moment free from gigs and checks the forums… The title may just be enough to spring a memory from London and check it out…
I imagine he’ll think we’re just geeking out.
I don’t have a multiregion player (AFAIK), though if (for the sake of argument) I were to ignore the DMCA and use a non-authorized software player, I could watch whatever region I want.
Honestly, most of the DVDs we watch are my home movies, which aren’t region-coded at all, since I plan on sending them to family living abroad. We’re just glad their players support NTSC.
I used to see a lot of multiregion players in the duty-free places catering to a multinational crowd (St Thomas, St Martin etc). My guess is that a) there is less muscle from the content producers to keep consumers in their correct pigeonholes, and b) with consumers from different countries converging there, it's only natural that one would try and keep stock proliferation down by selling multistandard (and multi-voltage) equipment as far as possible. Maybe you can pick them up in US airport duty free shops too?
For DVDs that are outside of my region code, I just pop it in my PC and I can usually get it to play fine. One would think that JoCo would be able to do the same, right?
@suuuupaadave: I think it depends on your player. In theory, officially sanctioned players are designed so you can switch them between regions some small number of times, after which they’ll no longer switch. Other players ignore regions completely, which is one of several reasons they lack official sanction.
Ahh well, I didn’t mean to get the topic off thread. Let’s discuss the awesomeness that is Red Dwarf, eh meladdo?
Our DVD player isn’t multi-region.
I’m surprised at how much it is for the box-set. How many series did they do in the end? Eight?
We’re lucky enough to have it shown on PBS, so we’ve only got series 1,2, and 5.Ahh well, I didn’t mean to get the topic off thread.
That is the topic of the thread.
How many series did they do in the end? Eight?
8 series, 52 episodes.
There will be no series 9 or TV specials (the BBC don’t want it anymore)
The film can’t get funding
Red Dwarf is done 🙁your secret is blown if his Coultonnes ever gets a moment free from gigs and checks the forums
I’m not worried, he never reads the forum anymore, he is just too busy.
I very occasionly send him links to the forum if I think there is something he should see, but I have only done that a small number of times ever, and I can’t confirm he does read it even then.Just so you know i am about 90% sure he could watch whatever region DVD you sent him even if he doesn’t know it yet. I use my brothers old mac (about 6 years to be exact), it is an iBook. I seem to remember hearing JoCo uses a 12-inch powerbook. My laptop is set to region 1 as my brother is living in San Fran and he must have changed it to region 1 at some stage. As it still belongs to him i will not change it to region 2 as there are a limited amount of changes. However, if you put a DVD in and ignore iDVD (or whatever it is called), this means you don’t close it or anything just ignore its message telling you wrong region, shove it in the background. Then you open VLC and tell it to play the DVD it will. This does require more processor than playing it with iDVD and my poor laptop can’t handle that but i am sure JoCo has a good enough laptop to manage to play it on VLC. Just thought i would confirm it possible even if it is not ideal or practical.
He could certainly watch it on any computer DVD player. Multi region players are virtually unheard of in the US, you would have to really hunt one down, probably online and then it would be expensive, I bet. The really irritating thing is that there is almost NO reason to have regions anymore because of our digital televisions, etc. It is really antiquated.
He will love Red Dwarf, I bet.
I think regions are mostly used by the studios to allow DVD prices to vary with geography. They really have nothing to do with video standards and never did; it’s a completely distinct issue.
Well, my DVD player seems to play everything, yes. But I’m always very nervous of buying Region 1/NTSC stuff… (In response to christophano going mad)
Which also reminds me, I hope the JoCoSanFrancisco DVD Show is region 0. I’m sure it saves money too.
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