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[aleathiel]

Why is it that you can get Queer as Folk UK on both region 1 and 2 DVDs and yet it's next to impossible to get QAF USA on region 2 DVD? Everywhere I look only has it region 1.

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[oliviaramirez]

Perhaps there's little or no interest for it in Europe.....

[trimalynn.livejournal.com]

you can try a region 0, supposedly guaranteed to play on all players.

[nikkidarling.livejournal.com]

I saw that amazon is seling multi region DVD players for £30. I know it's not what you're looking for but it may be handy.

I personally had no clue they were that cheap till I saw and now I'm planning on getting one.

[rosi-smaabu.livejournal.com]

And that's why I bought myself a region-free player. Ahem. Not that I can afford the dvds just yet, but.. I want to be ready, you know. *coughs*

[stewardess.livejournal.com]

I bought a region free player because this kind of thing happens all too often. They are really cheap now. Mine was about $65. I'm sure you could convince your dad to get it. *g*

Speaking of regions: It has never been clear to me whether I have a region free player, an all region player, or what. It does play just about anything. What's really handy is that it will play burned DVDs that may be a little too messed up for my regular DVD player to swallow.

[aleathiel.livejournal.com]

But but but I'm interested. *sob*

[aleathiel.livejournal.com]

I can't find anything other than region 1, anywhere. Even region 0 would be a help!

[aleathiel.livejournal.com]

The only cheap multi-region DVD players on amazon are ones they won't ship abroad. I just had a look, but ended disappointed. It's becoming a difficult quest.

[aleathiel.livejournal.com]

Yeah I know. But I really can't afford to replace my DVD player. I#ve tried looking at hacks, but failed.

[aleathiel.livejournal.com]

UGH. Yeah, I wish. There is pretty much no way I'll convince him he needs to replace our home DVD player. And I just use my laptop at college - which is region specific. Yeah, maybe in ten years time my dad would buy a new one but a) I'll die waiting and b) I won't live at home then - I'm there rarely enough as it is.

:( Sorry. I'm just miserable about this. I had convinced myself that there must be a way around this and now I just can't find onw.

[rosi-smaabu.livejournal.com]

Woe. I only have a few episodes which I've copied from a copy (=not very good quality), or I would have copied them for you. Woe.

[aleathiel.livejournal.com]

Ahh, but that does perhaps give me hope. You got them from a copy that was region 2? (i.e. it exists?) Or, in copying them did you make them a different region (I have no idea if that is even remotely possible)

[rosi-smaabu.livejournal.com]

Err.. Because I looked all over for Region2 QaF and didn't find any, I can only presume that the region block was erased in copying. I have copying software that will remove the region block, so I'm guessing that's the case. But then again, I'm a bit dense, so don't listen too carefully to me. ;)

[aleathiel.livejournal.com]

Yes, I am discovering that lack of region 2 version. It's so upsetting.

And don't worry, I failed to understand any of that, so it sounded intelligent to me.

[trimalynn.livejournal.com]

I got mine off of eBay :D they're actually asian versions but are the same and in english, just no english subtitles, only chinese

[stewardess.livejournal.com]

An all region player doesn't replace the one you have already -- you use both. The all region players are usually pretty bare bones, but it seems they aren't as cheap yet where you are. They might be soon, I hope.

[aleathiel.livejournal.com]

Hmmm...

[aleathiel.livejournal.com]

I'll keep an eye out. Well, actually, I will have a proper search, let's be honest. I'm getting slightly hung up on this now. GRR it seems the world is against me getting to see this program.

[londinensa.livejournal.com]

You know even of your dvd player is not region free, you can usually trick it into playing all regions, that's what I did to my old one ;P

[aleathiel.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's one of the things I've been trying. I've been trying to find the code or hack or whatever it's called that would allow me to do that. However, I don't seem able to find one for my DVD player. I've found quite a few sites and have yet to find one that lists it. And when I look directly for it all I find are other people posting on messageboards looking for the same thing. It's a Hitachi DVP325E