Posted by Temsonic on 11/17/05 11:37

"Napalm68" <Napalm_68@whatever.com> wrote in message
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> Temsonic wrote:
>> Does anyone know where CD-Wow are sourcing their R2 2-disc editions of
>> Charlie and the Chocolate Factory from?
>>
>> I received mine today, it's marked as R2 & R5, has no BBFC certificate on
>> the case or discs, I believe it's PAL as the running time is 110 mins (as
>> opposed to 115 mins for the R1/R3 NTSC versions), and the cover is
>> different from everywhere I've seen the UK R2 edition sold: see
>> http://tinyurl.com/dzczs compared to http://tinyurl.com/bmceu - it's
>> similar to the R1 single disc/R3 covers, though it has deep purple border
>> around the outside. Also the soundtrack/subtitle languages are English
>> and Arabic.
>>
>> As long as the pic and sound quality are up to par I'm not complaining,
>> but it'd be nice if CD-Wow were to warn beforehand that even though
>> you're buying R2, it's not necessarily the UK edition you're getting.
>>
>> Richard
> It is odd.
>
> I got mine today. Strangely, the extras disc does have the BBFC and Irish
> certification logo.

I remember getting the same thing with all the Harry Potter discs from CD
Wow. I ordered them all in one go last February, again no BBFC certs and
coded for both R2 & R5. According to http://tinyurl.com/oiqy Region 5 covers
"Russia, Eastern Europe, India, most of Africa, North Korea, Mongolia".
Quite where in the world would require dual coding for R2 & R5 with Arabic
as an alternative language and all packaging in English is rather puzzling.
Disc is absolutely fine though, plus I actually prefer that cover to the
standard UK release.

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