What was the last DVD you bought and why?

It's finally arrived!

(note that the poster's watch isn't in the picture to illustrate scale, I'm just a dreadfully bad and lazy photo-ist )

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Aren't you contradicting yourself?

ha! I love your avatar, yet you say this






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- Alfred Hitchcock

What region is that ?

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I'd imagine if it was Region 1 we would see SOME English on the front.

According to the blurb when I bought it, it's Region 0 (ie: Free) but I can't find any info on the box other than it's NTSC. Asian stuff is usually R3 and I've got a multi-region player so can't say for sure if it's 0 or 3.

I imported it from The States, if that's a help. This guy in fact.

i hate the first two, but like the third one wierdly enough :S

I really wish I had a good region-free DVD player.

They're not expensive - mine cost Ł30 and is excellent quality and I've seen examples far cheaper than that - and many existing region-locked players can be converted by a few presses on the remote.

You'll need to make sure that your TV can cope with a PAL signal if you plan on getting European or Australian DVDs, though.

PAL signal ? Uh - oh .

Yep, apparently so. My main TV can cope with PAL and NTSC signals so never had a problem but if I try and play an R1 movie on the portable in the bedroom it displays B&W, even though the player is region free.

One signal is 60HZ (NTSC I think) and one is something like 50 but most modern(ish) TVs should be able to display both. Should be.

Hence when I finally get my HD telly later on in the year it has to be able to run in 60HZ mode ('cos I live in a PAL region) too. All but the really cheap models should be able to.

You'd probably need an American MoFo with a region-free player to confirm this but if you're just interested in getting Asian imports, they display in NTSC (although it's NTSC-J rather than NTSC-U and I don't know if that makes a difference).

I believe it was Ratatouille and why because I thought it was the best Pixar animated movie they have done in quite a long time.

The Assassination of Jesse James
by the Coward Robert Ford

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I bought a copy of the movie "I Now Pronounce you Chuck and Larry"..As a birthday present for my niece because she really loves the movie.

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I picked up American Beauty (why: It is a recent classic)

and

He Was a Quiet Man (why: I watched the trailer and it looked rather interesting)

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I met a man who wasn't there.
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Since I've last posted in this thread, I've bought a lot of movies, but my most recent...

Disturbia
Planet Terror
The Holiday
Evan Almighty
Pathfinder
Hot Fuzz
Knocked Up
Lust In The Dust
Lie With Me

I should be getting this in the mail from amazon today



some other dvd's i plan and buying soon