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Posted by loz on 10/24/05 17:03
"Clem Dye" <bite@me.com> wrote in message
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> loz wrote:
>> My wife asked me to rent Scandal on DVD from amazon.
>> Was surprised they didn't have it apart from 2 used copies for 50!!!
>> A quick search reveals it doesnt seem to have ever been released in the
>> UK
>> However, there are plenty of R2 copies on ebay - mainly sourced from
>> Holland it seems.
>> So why hasn't it ever been released in the UK?
>
> Too many reasons - lack of perceived demand, access to a master copy,
> copyright, processing capacity, who knows? It is very disappointing to
> find this sort of situation though. I have a number of UK film releases
> that I've had to obtain on inferior R1 NTSC prints simply because they
> weren't available in the UK. Actually, this whole topic really irritates
> me. It's not only the lack of titles sometimes, but the fact that in a lot
> of cases (mainly older stuff), we seem to end-up with a 4:3 crop, whilst
> in the US they get widescreen - the Ipcress File is a case in point. Then
> there are audio issues - Bombon El Perro (an Argentinian film) released
> here in the UK gets DD2.0, whilst in Spain it gets DD5.1. Next, we have
> films that have been partially funded here - the UK Lottery for instance,
> but we can't actually buy a copy of a film - Aberdeen is a good example
> here. Finally (for now) we have the issue of extras and so forth, which
> matters to many people.
>
> I really can't understand why distributors and manufacturers do this.
> Perhaps it's to deliberately stimulate a demand for non-UK DVDs whilst
> still feigning adherence to the region coding. Whatever it is, it p*sses
> me right off!
What confuses me is that there are R2 versions with English soundtracks
available in Holland, but not in the UK?
And this is a UK film (to all intensive purposes)
Loz
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