OK, I have to ask the question all Hammer fans on the other side of the pond are asking: When???? When are we going to have a Region 1 release of the uncut, restored version?
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Hopefully soon. I don't have a region free DVD player or else I would just order it from Amazon UK. I already love the version we have and think it's just fine as it is, but it would be nice to see some of the things that were cut out.
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I am a Director's/Extended Cut junkie. I hope we get the Blu Ray release in the US soon also.
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Probably the vast majority of DVD and BD players can be made region free with a simple code hack that you can find on a site like videohelp which you enter with the remote. I could understand if it was a Blu-ray disc, that's more tricky to bypass region coding on than regular DVD... but not impossible with some willpower.
shareMaybe I'm missing the point here. My Blu-ray player is region free for all DVDs. I thought they all were.
shareThere are codes on the internet for some BD players that make them region free for DVDs, so I guess not.
I always make sure to get a player that's region free out of the box. When DVD players were first a thing, stores would market some of them as region free and that's where I learned that was important. Although maybe they're not as big of a thing in the US as in Europe, because Americans presumably don't import as much as Europeans do.
Huh, that's interesting. Out of curiosity, when you enter a code to make a player region free, is that a once-and-done thing, or does the code have to be entered every time you play a DVD from a different region?
shareNo, you just enter the code once and it will unlock the restriction that is in the 'BIOS' or whatever you want to call it and the player basically behaves just like a stock region free player. I had a DVD player years ago that I did this on. The protection on DVD is rather primitive. The BD one is more sophisticated, but many players can be unlocked with enhanced firmware these days, I believe. In the beginning, they had to be physically modded with soldering and there were hardware stores that specialised in selling region free BD players. Some BD/4K players are even sold stock region free.
shareVery interesting - thanks 👍
shareWow, You have a region free blu ray player. You must be rich. I still have a DVD player
shareI've still got a VHS player somewhere!
shareI threw my VHS player away years ago. What good is a VHS nowadays?
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I realize that my answer to an 11-year-old post might be anticlimactic, but I guess by now you have procured the film in the new format.
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