I got a free copy with a newspaper in uk! - Recently I bought a cheapish DVD player and went online to get the hack to make it multinational (this is NOT included in the manual but came from the horses mouth so to speak) - surely US customers can do likewise?
Anyway don't suppose I can help US movie fans with the free copy....great film and watching it now is eerie - like a lost world of dowdiness which I lived through but don't remember (born 55)
spotted this film in HMV few monthe back on dvd for £19.99.tryed to find online though with no luck
share>>> Recently I bought a cheapish DVD player and went online to get the hack to make it multinational (this is NOT included in the manual but came from the horses mouth so to speak) - surely US customers can do likewise? <<<
Yes and no.
I have a copy of the the DVD you have (a freebie given away by The Daily Telegraph).
Hacking your player to make it "Region Free" is only half of the battle.
The more important part is that the TV broiadcast standards in the British Isles (and thus the standards the DVD is recorded in) are a system called PAL. Our system is different here (NTSC, or National Television Standards Committee). With most cheap hacked players you can play the DVD, but what comes out of it is PAL... which is NOT compatable with American TV sets.
There ARE digital converter boxes that translate from PAL and SECAM to NTSC, but they're hard to find.
A much easier alternative which I've used here...
America is a land of immigrants. In major urban areas (the closest to me being Chicago) there are electronics stores in areas where the immigrants have congregated, and those shops stock slightly more expensive DVD players with built in translator chips. Cheap players meant for domestic use do not.
I simply went to a shop in an Indian & Pakistani neighborhood, and paid $39.00 to get the same Phillips machine that they're buying to watch the movies they brought from home!