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Louis
Registered: 01/01/04
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 Wednesday, May 24 2006 @ 03:46 PM EDT |
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Unfortunately, last year we lost David Jackson who played Gan in the series.
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tarashnat
Registered: 08/17/05
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| Tuesday, June 06 2006 @ 01:03 AM EDT |
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Matthew Graham discusses Blake's 7 in DWM 370... in addition to all the other stuff he had on his plate.
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Daleks don't accept apologies! YOU WILL BE EXTERMINATED!
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indiana_brian
Registered: 03/29/06
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| Thursday, September 21 2006 @ 01:39 PM EDT |
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| I broke down and bought the region 2 dvds of Blake's Seven. I only had the episodes on beta tapes and I was tired of waiting for the region 1 dvd's. |
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tarashnat
Registered: 08/17/05
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| Thursday, September 21 2006 @ 03:20 PM EDT |
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I'm glad I didn't try to collect the NTSC VHS tapes... at $10 per episode (on average) that would have been expensive...
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Daleks don't accept apologies! YOU WILL BE EXTERMINATED!
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hdutch007
Registered: 12/27/05
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| Thursday, September 21 2006 @ 03:46 PM EDT |
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| that's really cool, Sean. I've been considering getting a divx enabled player for a long time, because every time I try to play a downloaded dvd, my player skips minutes at a time. |
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BadWolf
Registered: 03/25/06
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| Friday, September 22 2006 @ 06:57 AM EDT |
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[Quote by: seanhuxter] I recently bought a Philips DVP642 for $60 at WalMart.
I bought it because it plays DivX and MPG4 formats.
I've successfully been able to watch downloaded Doctor Who episodes I've burned to DVD, quite nicely on my TV because of this machine.
But as an extra bonus I discovered it's Region Free if you know the codes.
Turn it on with no DVD in the tray. Push 789 on the remote, and a hand will appear. Then type the region you want (0 for region free).
I have tested it with a R2 Earthshock DVD I bought on eBay last year (when I had another region free player which died on mey a week later.)
Sean.
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I bought a Phillips DvD player recently and you're right they're nice and easy to hack.
Unfortunately I returned it within 24 hours when I found out that it would not play DvD audio (which has been standard with DvD players for about 1,000 years.)So I had to choose betwixt the player and my collection of 5:1 suurround sound discs.....
I changed it for a Toshiba player (almost as easy to hack.) |
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Forget the shooty dog thing!
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rocko
Registered: 07/21/06
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| Friday, September 22 2006 @ 01:06 PM EDT |
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| I will never be able to get Zen's "Information!" out of my head for as lond as I live. |
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Did you say "74,384,338 to 1 against"? That's my lucky number!
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Doctor Whoovie
Registered: 04/26/06
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| Friday, September 22 2006 @ 05:22 PM EDT |
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| [Quote by: rocko] I will never be able to get Zen's "Information!" out of my head for as lond as I live. |
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How lond will you live? Live lond and pespire (or something like that  ) |
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In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed are Kings
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DarthSkeptical
Registered: 03/11/06
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| Friday, September 22 2006 @ 05:55 PM EDT |
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[Quote by: Ken]
Blake's 7 is another example of a U.S. company missing the boat. Why are they not available in region 1???
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Because it's even more obscure than Doctor Who in the US, maybe? It's hard to imagine a profit model that could support the release of the show on DVD in the US. Pretty sure there are whole states where it's never been broadcast. There are even more where it hasn't been broadcast in over 20 years. Seriously, there are pipe dreams and then there are p i p e
d r e a m s.
Still, if Darrow ever gets his film project off the ground, it could easily make it to DVD in the States. |
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"I think of myself as ambitious in casting terms, and I know that Bonnie [Langford] has the potential to make the part totally unirritating . . ." — JNT, 1986
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indiana_brian
Registered: 03/29/06
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| Saturday, September 23 2006 @ 10:56 AM EDT |
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| I just picked up a new Philips 622 dvd player at Walmart and it was easily set to be region free. I checked and I was able to watch my Blake's 7 dvds without any problem on my NTSC television. |
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Louis
Registered: 01/01/04
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| Monday, September 25 2006 @ 06:01 PM EDT |
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[Quote by: tarashnat]
I'm glad I didn't try to collect the NTSC VHS tapes... at $10 per episode (on average) that would have been expensive...
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I was doing just that back in the late 90's, then they announced that they would be coming to DVD as region 1 discs. This even foreshadowed Doctor Who being released on DVD in North America... So I stopped purchasing them on tape as I rather have them in an optical format and they were not available on LDs. Now 8 years later or so, and I am still waiting for the B7 DVD releases here in North America... Grrr...
If you want them released as region 1 DVDs here in North America, all I need to do is purchase them all on region 2 PAL discs, and within a couple of weeks they will announce region 1 versions. 
Cheers,
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daveac
Registered: 04/12/06
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| Sunday, December 10 2006 @ 07:30 PM EST |
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As mentioned in Podshock 60 - the Cult of Blake's 7 - the 'signed version is a late night reshowing where superinposed on the side of the show is a person 'signing' the show for deaf or hard of hearing viewers.
Cheers, daveac |
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tarashnat
Registered: 08/17/05
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| Monday, December 11 2006 @ 06:42 AM EST |
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Maybe this'll get me fired up to get further into watching season (series) four... |
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Daleks don't accept apologies! YOU WILL BE EXTERMINATED!
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Louis
Registered: 01/01/04
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| Monday, December 11 2006 @ 04:25 PM EST |
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[Quote by: tarashnat]
Maybe this'll get me fired up to get further into watching season (series) four... |
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Maybe this will get me fired up to finally break down and purchase the region 2 PAL DVDs.
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tarashnat
Registered: 08/17/05
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| Monday, December 11 2006 @ 06:09 PM EST |
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| [Quote by: Louis]Maybe this will get me fired up to finally break down and purchase the region 2 PAL DVDs. |
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