[hidden email] wrote:
> Thanks to you!
> BTW (pls forgive if this question has already been answered) will the UFO
> DVD's include English-language subtitles?
> Ciao.
> t.
Ummmmmmmm, I've heard someone mention this before .... forgive my
ignorance, but wasn't UFO made in English to begin with? Why would it
need English sub-titles?
<<
Out of curiousity, do you still listen to 8 track tapes?
AT
>>
Hey! What's wrong with 8-Track?!
Andy wrote:
<<
So you should buy this box of DVDs, even if you don't
have a way of viewing them ? And can't afford them,
let alone a player for them ?
>>
Not if you can't afford them, no! But Marc is saying, if you plan on
getting a DVD player *someday* and CAN afford the DVDs when they come
out, and think you may want the DVDs when you do get a DVD player, then
you should get the DVDs when they come out or risk not being able to
find them when you DO want them later on.
Andy again:
<<
Interesting. VCRs that play both PAL and NTSC videos
have been available in the UK for several years, at
the lower end of the price scale (even the lowest
priced I've seen recently, at £75.00 - about $100 -
would play both PAL and NTSC videos. So anyone in
north America who could get hold of PAL videos - on
eBay for example - really shouldn't have a problem
playing them. Unless of course, north American
consumers are being happily led down the garden
path... but surely not...)
>>
Well, I'm not sure what you mean by being led down the garden path, but
I know I have not seen any VCRs that play both NTSC and PAL in my local
stores. I have not been to any electonic specialty stores, so I can't
say how available they are there. Right now, I'm like you - I can't even
afford a new VCR now that mine is going wonky, let alone a DVD player,
but I will probably - no, I will DEFINITELY get a DVD player some day
because the picture quality os so much better (and I already own several
DVDs - that I can't watch).
<<
But at the risk of repeating myself - people who dont
have, and can't afford, DVD players, can't buy DVDs.
End of story, enuff said. Retreat to lurking.
>>
Not strickly true - I can't afford $200.00 for a DVD player, but I have
spent $10 or $15 for DVDs. (I actually spent waaaaaaaaay more for my
limited edition 2-disc Army of Darkness DVD set, but that's my favourite
movie and it's Bruce, after all - and yes, my other 2 DVDs are Bruce
movies too ...)
Ah, Lisa confirmed my fears about multi-format VCRs when she wrote:
<<
Um, Andy, the happy state of affairs in the UK reference low-priced
multi-format VCRs most emphatically does *not* apply in the US. I
know; I have one, and tracking it down and getting hold of it was
quite an adventure in itself. The usual response at any US retailer
when I asked about VCRs capable of playing PAL tapes was "Huh?" (Most
people in the US aren't even aware there *are* different formats.) I
eventually found information on the two (2) models available at the
time; one was intended for professional use and had a four-figure
price tag; the other -- which I bought -- was about $500. Last I
looked, its successor was still the only model readily available
here, was still around $500, and was still not all that easy to find.
I have a bunch of PAL tapes and the VCR I bought has been well worth
it for my frame-capture work, but a multi-format VCR really isn't a
viable option for most people in the US.
>>
<siiiiiiiiigh>
Everything sounds so complicated - I don't think I'll ever be able to
watch PAL videos OR DVDs.
-- Yuchtar, who was the SECOND person to answer the poll (presumably
after Marc)
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