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Dragonball Original Episodes 1-13 uncut on DVD from Funi... it exists!
PostPosted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 3:48 pm
by Azier the Swordsman
It's common knowledge that the first 13 episodes have never been on DVD uncut due to screwed up liscensing. (KidMark owns the DVD rights and has their own edited version.) But, as I've found out, this only applies to America. Today, on a whim, I poked around a Region 4 DVD website (Australia, New Zealand) and found out I was right!
http://www.dvdvideoplanet.com/product_info.php?category=1&products_id=6162
So, all other fellow DB fans with the gap in their collections now have a good alternitive. (Don't forget to get region free DVD players.)
PostPosted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 9:04 pm
by Rocketshipper
That's not fair. Stupid licencing problems -_-.
I wouldn't be surprised if those DVDs work on normal DVD players here though. I'm pretty sure that all the official Funi DBZ DVDs are actually Region 1, 2, AND 4 (the DVDs have 3 little symbols down at the bottom at least).
PostPosted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 11:01 pm
by Mr. SmartyPants
well go buy it and play it on your compy! or try to alter the region settings on your dvd player XD Or just use a region free dvd player
PostPosted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:40 pm
by mitsuki lover
How do you alter your region setting on the DVD player?
PostPosted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 6:23 pm
by Azier the Swordsman
The easiest thing to do is buy a region free player off of eBay. (You can get them pretty cheap.) I am not sure how to tweak a region 1 player to another region.
You can also tweak the region setting on your computer. Be warned you can only do this a few times before the computer locks you from changing the region again.
Rocketshipper is correct about the North American releases playing on 1, 2 and 4. I assume the Australian/New Zealand releases all the same. I plan on finding out for certain when I get my next paycheck.
PostPosted: Mon Sep 11, 2006 4:25 pm
by Azier the Swordsman
I just got my copy in the mail today... apparently it IS region locked. I had to dust off my region free player for it. Also noticable is that the Australian DVDs are apparently digitally remastered while the American versions use the original granier cuts.
But, anyways, now I own the complete original series uncut. Yay for me.
PostPosted: Mon Sep 11, 2006 4:28 pm
by GrubbTheFragger
Sweet if i had a region free dvd i would probably order them
PostPosted: Mon Sep 11, 2006 5:28 pm
by Azier the Swordsman
I got my Region Free player back on eBay for $30 when DVD players were retailing in stores for $300.
PostPosted: Mon Sep 11, 2006 5:49 pm
by Kaligraphic
I have a DVD player program on my computer called DVD X Player that can be set to any region, or even to completely ignore region coding.
PostPosted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 4:13 pm
by Rocketshipper
the PS2 gameshark allows you to hack the region codes and play them. That's what I would use.
PostPosted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 6:55 pm
by mitsuki lover
I was at Borders today and noticed that they had them.I think it was Borders.
PostPosted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 9:58 pm
by Azier the Swordsman
Rocketshipper wrote:the PS2 gameshark allows you to hack the region codes and play them. That's what I would use.
That's actually good to know. My player is so old it's starting to not work as well. Gotten to where it has trouble reading the disks sometimes.