When Will Season 4 be Available for Region 1?

Anything official posted yet?

On Sun, 04 Apr 2004 20:45:12 GMT, "Glenn Hall" wrote:

hey this might be slightly off topic, but I recently bought a AMW (amphion Mediaworks) DVD player from a place called Circuit City (I think they are all over the US) anyway, it was a cheap model, but I was fooling around with menu's and in the preferences it lets you set the region, all you do is set the region BEFORE you insert the cd and it will play anyregion you want (you'd need to turn it off and on and reset the region to change back and forth) but this would allow you to buy DVD's (like the Futurama set) from different regions. I think you can order these via theinternet too.

kvn

In alt.tv.futurama on Sun, 4 Apr 2004, |<evin wrote :

The internet - is that thing still around?

Oh wait, this isn't the Simpsons newsgroup... :)

On Mon, 5 Apr 2004 06:46:04 +0100, Paul Hyett wrote:

yea that joke is still funny, really.

kvn

|<evin wrote:

Which model was the DVD player? My current No-Region player refuses to play some new DVDs so I'm looking for a new, preferably cheap replacement.

On Sun, 04 Apr 2004 22:27:40 -0400, |<evin wrote:

Most DVD players let you change the region - but only up to 5 times. Are you sure that the one you have is unlimited? Those kind are usually not sold in the USA.

octavius schmalz wrote:

Most DVD-ROM drives let you change the region five times. Most DVD players that hook up to TVs don't let you change the region at all. Besides, most DVD players in the USA don't convert 25 frames/second to 30, so there isn't much need to change the region. However, some manufacturers have made players with "hidden menus" that you change the region as many times as you want (pretty much any Daewoo player with a 4-digit model number beginning with 5 has one, and these were "the" cheap DVD player that Sam's Club stores sold for a long time - a lot of people have them and don't realize it), although the USA has been cracking down on most of the companies - still, one slips through every now and then.

-- Don

Don Del Grande said the following (about "Re: When Will Season 4 be Available for Region 1?" in alt.tv.futurama on Sat, 10 Apr 2004 22:17:34 GMT):

The hilarious thing is of course that the US government themselves buys "illegal" ones:

http://www.techtronics.com/uk/shop/510-nasa.html

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Hello, this is NASA And we need your multi-region DVD players. This was the surprise email enquiry we received from Steve Vanderark of NASA Johnson Space Center on Aug 5th, 2000.

It turns out that the real customers are the International Space Station, whose diverse residents are expected to come from as many as 16 nations. In terms of DVD regional codes, that includes Region 1, 2, 4 & 5. In order not to show any bias, it is only natural that they opt for a Multi-Region player over a virgin single Region player.

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And I remember reading in a binary ng that some soldiers were watching SVCDs of their favorite shows while on mission in Iraq, etc. -- all "illegal" of course.

On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 16:48:48 -0400, octavius schmalz wrote:

you can select the region an unlimited amount of times, but you must reset the machine (turn it off/on) before you can change it again. You can also switch to secam/pal/ntsc. This is a cheapo model, (80 bucks with 5.1 surround sound speakers, fm ant, and remote) but it has lots of extraneous features that my last dvd player (top of the line SOny model) did not have! infact maybe too many. It is very finnicky with SVCD's though, but I only have a couple of those to test with the machine and they are on CDR's.

kvn