Serenity Region 2 Exclusive Content
POSTED BY: iccledames
UPDATED: Friday, October 20, 2006 03:41
VIEWED: 16480
PAGE 2 of 3
There are sites on the net that provide codes for some DVD players that will make them multi regional or you can have your player chipped.
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Sorry to say... nothing I have seen so far comes close to the Australian content:
DISC 1
- The film itself
- Deleted Scenes
- Outtakes
- Future History: That Story of Earth That Was
- What's In A Firefly
- Re-lighting The Firefly
- Joss Whedon Introduction
- Feature Commentary
- Easter Egg - We'll Have A Fruity Oaty Good Time
- A Filmmakers Journey: Journey with Joss from Script to Screen (this will be on all international DVDs but not the US version)
DISC 2 (at present, this disc is exclusive to Australia and Benelux - Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg - only but other international territories may decide to release the 2nd disc as well)
- Joss Whedon Q&A Session filmed at FOX Studios in Sydney
- Extended Scenes
- Take a Walk on Serenity: Cast & Crew take us on a special tour of the Serenity ship
- The Green Clan: Feature on Cinematographer Jack Green and his team
Looks damn good to me... but not out until February...
Regards,
Shane.
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
I'm pretty sure the U.S. version of the DVD will cost significantly less, as is the usual case. Because of this, more and more British folks are getting multi-region DVD players (not expensive at all) and ordering all their DVDs from the States. This may be a measure to discourage that.
I think this will also mean the death of region encoding in the future.
People here in England get ripped off in general. The mark-up on most stuff is just unjustifiable, and I think the Internet is making that a whole lot clearer.
By the way, you can also watch Region 2s on a PlayStation, if you have it modded out.
And if you think about it, this is also an ingenius way to get hard-core fans to buy three different versions.
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Most DVD players will come with PAL/NTSC compatibility on board becasue it saves them making two or more units. Same with region coding. They make one unit with all the codes and then just select the one they need for that particular country.
We in the UK get ripped off a lot. When DVDs first became known R1 discs would have lots of extras but R2 would just be a vanilla release.
R2 would also cost a lot more. I got the first Matrix movie from the US through my door two days after it opened on the cinemas here. It only cost about £11 as well. Thats roughly two ticket prices.
Music CDs are a fine example. We get a "Special Edition" disc which will have a couple of extra tracks (sometimes crap that wouldn't have made the CD anyway) over other releases. They then charge extra money for it of course.
Like someone said release dates are getting closer as well. Far more films open in the cinema on the same weekend these days, or like Serenity a week after the US release.
"These times they are-a-changin'."
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Well, digital media is removing a lot of barriers.
Used to be, only so many copies of the film were printed.
after the theaters in one area were through showing em, ship em to the next.
Took for ever to get around the globe.
Now with digital theaters, they just send a dvd to them and away they go. So much cheaper than film reels.
So much faster too. With broadband, they can eve do without the physical media hving to be shipped at all... Theaters just get the movie streamed onto a local harddisk and project it straight from there...
You dont have to wait for all those reels to get shipped all over the world and back before you release a film to DVD now because prety much, everyone who is gonna see it in the theaters already has within the first couple months or so.
As an added bonus, the advertising for the theater release is still prety fresh in peoples minds (in some cases even still up on billboards and such). Studios can spend less on the DVD release and still get prety good coverage.
------------------------------------------
FOX Execs...
dc4bs 
NOTIFY: N | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Serenity Australian DVD
http://www.jbhifionline.com.au/dvds/id/809477
$28.00 + $10 Shipping to US... thats about $21 and $7.50 American...
and looks like its Region Free, too.
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Being in Canada, which being a close relative of the US, this news is not good to me....I hope you enjoy it UK. Don't gloat too much!!!
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
If the DVD sells well enough, Universal could release a 2-Disc Special Edition version later on to include the extra content showing up in other regions. It's been done plenty. And it might bring in some extra sales.
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
If'n anyone needs one, I happened across a region-free DVD player for ~$30 at http://www.surpluscomputers.com/store/main.aspx?p=ItemDetail&item=CES1
0891
I've ordered from these guys before - not the greatest company in the world (and their site-design is HORRENDOUS - don't use more than one window/tab at a time on their site if you're going to order anything!), but they're okay. I ordered a big-ass 21" refurb monitor for my vision-impared wife this summer and somehow DHL "lost" it on the last leg of the journey (it arrived at the local depot, but somehow never made it to my door - just how does one "lose" anything so friggin' big and heavy?!?). Took nearly two months of harrassing the company I ordered from on every e-mail address I could find, but I finally got a replacement. Prior to that I had no probs with them.
Despite that - for just $30, it's probably worth a shot if you need a simple international DVD solution. I'm considering it -- even though I know I could probably make a region-free copy of the DVD on my PC, it'd just be quicker and easier this way...
---
There are 10 kinds of people in the world - those who understand binary, and those who don't.
---
If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people? (DUHbya would be smilin' out his a$$...)
---
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Well loyal browncoat i am I'm already buying like 5 copies of the region 1. I for one am a little hurt that the US isnt getting all the special features. Am i the only one? Sure I'm hopeful that there will be another release, but ouch!
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME