Serenity Region 2 Exclusive Content
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UPDATED: Friday, October 20, 2006 03:41
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Just found the following information out about the Region 2 release of Serenity at
http://www.empireonline.co.uk/news/story.asp?NID=17698
It reads:
One of the best sci-fi films of the year, Serenity, is coming to DVD on February 27 – and the UK is to get some bonus material not included on the US release because we're Joss' favourites.
As well as his introduction (which screening audiences will already have seen) and his commentary, there are also nine deleted scenes (finally, Inara gets some screen time) and outtakes. Featurettes cover the history of the 500 years between now and Serenity, the visual effects and the journey of the crew from cancelled TV show to feature film. But the real news is that we in the UK are going to get A Filmmaker's Journey, following Joss from script to screen, in a 20-minute documentary that won't appear on the US disc.
Check back nearer the time for the Empire review of the DVD release.
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Can i purchase a region 2 DVD copy and have it work on my DVD machine here? Pretty much sucks that a cool "Making of with Joss" is not slotted to appear on our US version? What's up with that? We watched 25 million worth of that movie in the US?
Little frustrated...sorry
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A number of reasons. The feature might not have been reading in time to get the US DVD out for Xmas, Universal know some people in the UK will import the DVD from America and want to try to get them to buy a Region 2 version when it comes out there too. And probably visa-versa, USA browncoats might shell out for a second copy with a new feature.
Anyway, to answer your question: yes, if you have a multi-region/region-free DVD player. If you don't, then your player might have a built-in code to unlock it and let it watch DVDs from any region. Just search the net for DVD region-free hacks and see if you can find your model listed somewhere. I did it to let my mum's DVD player play Region 1 discs and it wasn't difficult once I found the code for her model. Alternatively, if you have a DVD drive on your PC, you should be able to find a small piece of software to unlock the region encoding on your drive, allowing you to watch Region 2 movies on your PC. Again, this will depend on your model.
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Originally posted by TheDuke333:
Can i purchase a region 2 DVD copy and have it work on my DVD machine here? Pretty much sucks that a cool "Making of with Joss" is not slotted to appear on our US version? What's up with that? We watched 25 million worth of that movie in the US?
Little frustrated...sorry
Region 2 is PAL, so unless you have a PAL DVD player, you will only be able to watch it on your computer
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I used to think that too...
I bought some PAL Danger Mouse DVDs in London and they play just fine on the DVD player in my livingroom connected to a standard US/NTSC TV.
If the player can deal with the reagon coding, that seems to be the only barrier. The signal is encoded from the DVD into whatever the player outputs.
Might end up with bars on the sides or the top/bottom or a stretched image though.
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dc4bs 
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Why where Regions used in the first place? Was it a way to restrict export/imports of DVDs, as well as keep control on blackmarket copies?
Anyone who mentions Shakespeare will get a .50 in their ass
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Originally posted by dc4bs:
I used to think that too...
I bought some PAL Danger Mouse DVDs in London and they play just fine on the DVD player in my livingroom connected to a standard US/NTSC TV.
If the player can deal with the reagon coding, that seems to be the only barrier. The signal is encoded from the DVD into whatever the player outputs.
Might end up with bars on the sides or the top/bottom or a stretched image though.
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FOX Execs...
very true...my dvd player and tv play PAL VCDs fine
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Basically yeah, and also to protect cinema releases since I'm not sure if you know but by the time a lot of big films come out here in the UK it's only a few weeks until they come out on DVD in the USA. Much cheaper to import a DVD than for a group of people to go to the cinema and buy overpriced food and sit with noisy kids. So the regions mean you (in theory) can't see the DVD until it's out in your country, so if you want to see a movie any time soon you'll need to go to the cinema with your friends.
That's just my assumption though, sounds reasonable to me.
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Exactly. For the most part it worked too.
But more and more people are catching on and it's much easier to get region-free players now. That's one of the many reasons movies are dumping to DVD so much faster than they used to.
I remember waiting a year or more for movies to go to tape. Now it seams like most come out in two or three months or so.
Some never have come out that I know of - EG: Turner bought the 70s musical version of Lost Horizons and has sat on it since... I finaly found a vhs bootleg version on Ebay that actualy had some scenes that were cut from the final movie. Mom loved it. 
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Read this on DigitalSpy. It was the MAIN headline. Found it a bit suspicious and had a sneaky feeling someone at DS was a Browncoat.
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