Dear Chris
Thank you for your email and for your support of Futurama.
Season 2 is currently scheduled for release in September this year, but please note our release schedules are subject to change, so keep checking back on fox.co.uk for up to date information.
Kind regards
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Sweet! Hope its true. ^_^
in article [email], [email] at [email] wrote on 4/9/02 3:23 PM:
For those in Europe, it is.
petben wrote:
I'm not up to that on that dvd thing. So, what's the deal, they were only released in europe? And those damn dvd 'regions' don't allow us to import some, I suppose? Are they planning an american release soon?
Thanks
seeya. Patrick (btw, does anyone know if dvd drives for pc's also have that region thing? I'm thinking of buying one, and that would probably convince me to do so.)
Upon close inspection, did Reminiscent of pancakes really say the following on the subject of "Re: To anybody who's interested in series2 DVD boxset - I got thef..." in alt.tv.futurama on Tue, 09 Apr 2002 19:28:41 -0400:
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Bart Van Hemelen wrote:
Thanks. That's something that never happened to bother me before, as I never wanted any dvd that wasn't released here. I didn't really know what that was about.
Seeya Patrick
Reminiscent of pancakes wrote in news:[email]:
For some reason, you guys over in the States get movies released on DVD before us, while we tend to get a better deal where TV to DVD releases hit our shelves first - sometimes you don't ever get them!
"Chris" wrote in message news:[email]...
The reason is media owners are always thinking about "how much profit is left" in a piece of entertainment.
Movies are released in the US before, say, the UK, and so, the studios have milked out most of a movie's theater-revenue-making ability in the US but not the UK. So, they send it out on DVD in Region 1, but it has potential to make money in the UK, so they release the movie there, then do the DVD later. (I'm not really sure why they don't do global releases, except maybe so they can concentrate their marketing efforts better and spread out the movie openings so the celebrities can show up at more of them.)
For TV, some shows like Futurama have potential to rake in more advertising revenue when it goes into syndication, so they hold up on the DVD release in the US because they can still sell the series to all the local networks. I guess in other countries, there is a smaller syndication market.
*tangent ahead*
Something similar that's really annoying is how baseball broadcasts are handled in the US. If a home game is not sold out, they usually don't air it on TV so people are basically given the ultimatum of "if you want to see the game, enough of you need to fill the ballpark before the rest of you can watch." What bothers me even more is that I can't listen to my home team play via Internet radio because the "copyright holders" (Major League Baseball) don't want to air it, presumably so it forces people to watch the TV broadcast (boosting ratings and ad sales). But if I'm on the other side of the country, I get nothing. Another thing that doesn't affect me as much but affects a lot of people is the movement of baseball to cable and gradually over to pay-extra-cable.
"Fen Phen" wrote in news:a91mn9$5m2$[email]:
Ahh, baseball, one of the all time great 'most confusing American sports' of all time LOL :op
We have a game in the UK called 'rounders', baseball seems to be a glorified version of that...
"Chris" wrote in message news:[email]...
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This from the same people that get way to excited about a bunch of guys kicking a ball around for 2 hours. ;-0
Like BASF we don't make the game, we make it better. Ish...
"Michael Zaite" wrote in news:FA0t8.487$[email]:
2 hours? More like 90 minutes :o) Well we do love our football, oh sorry, soccer :o))
Bless you ;o)
LOL! Ice hockey, I can gel with Ice Hockey, and don't mind a bit of NFL but Baseball :op
"Chris" wrote in message news:[email]...
sorry,
Ahh yes but one hour and one half just doesn't roll off the tongue quite the same.
Iron Chef. It's the closest thing to a sport that I can really get behind. :)
"Chris" wrote in message news:[email]...
Baseball, despite being the "national pastime," is not for everybody. If you have little patience, attention span, or are easily bored and have a weak constitution, then you should instead watch the highlight reels on ESPN / Fox Sports. =D
Otherwise, sit through a good chunk of a good game, and you'll see what it's all about. It's true that a lot of it is "boring," but you could make the same argument for watching soccer, basketball, hockey, whatever (I'm not making those claims, well maybe for soccer, hehe).
Last night, I got to see the end of two good games: Braves vs. Phillies, and Dodgers vs. Giants (WHOO!). Both games had very intense ninth innings.
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/recap?gameId=220410122
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/recap?gameId=220410126
Plus, you gotta watch Bonds (The Legend) play. He's ridiculous. =)
In article , [email] says...
Has been discussed indefinetely in this ng when the season 1 set came out. It's all about syndication so better get a regionfree DVD player...
-< Moon >-
The Apex AD-3201 lets you change regions at will, no modification neccesary :)
"Moon" wrote in message news:[email]...
On Thu, 11 Apr 2002 07:03:48 GMT, "Doug Tabacco" went upon the mount and spoke thus:
Where can one get one of these?
I bought mine off bluelight.com for $99 USD. I'm not sure if they still carry them, but I think walmart.com does.
"Mirror Spock" wrote in message news:[email]...
neccesary