Kieran might have opened a Pandora’s Box here. I am, more or less, obssessed with old children’s TV shows, so my own kids get to watch a great variety. It is easy to watch a region 2 DVD in the US if you have a DVD-Rom and an S-video outlet from your laptop (there is, to my surprise, no PAL/NTSC problem), so I order DVDs from the UK, and they watch them on our TV (though, as my 9 year old points out, this is slightly ridiculous, since my laptop screen is as big as our TV screeen. I’ll devote a couple of future posts to the joys of nostalgic children’s tv, but first I have a question. Why is Champion, the Wonder Horse
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Alex Earl 02.27.06 at 12:21 pm
My childhood will remain forever shrouded in mystery until they release 80’s era ‘The Little Hobo’ on DVD.
Barry Freed 02.27.06 at 1:51 pm
as my 9 year old points out, this is slightly ridiculous, since my laptop screen is as big as our TV screeen.
Where did you get a laptop with a 36″ screen? That’s p….
Oh, wait a minute…
That teh sux0rz!
Jeremy Osner 02.27.06 at 2:45 pm
You might like to check out the animated Moomins series, which was originally in Japanese but is translated into English and available from UK Amazon. There is also a puppet “Fuzzy Felt Moomins” series from the 80’s, I have never seen it except the stills which I use as screensavers, but they are selling DVD’s at this web site.
tylerh 02.27.06 at 4:24 pm
Harry, Region Free DVD players are widely available and cheap. I’ve been watching the British Comedy “Look Around You,” a region 2 PAL, with no problems on my NTSC plasma using a Phillips DVP642 DVD player, for example. You can get one from Amazon fo $60 (or other places, often cheaper). There are lots of other models to choose from.
The only catch is that when it arrives you have to use your remote to put in a magic code so that it goes into “debug mode” and ignores all region encodings. Happily, the codes for a wide variety players are posted all over the internet
Iron Lungfish 02.27.06 at 5:33 pm
I just posted this on the other thread, but a host of cheap Region 1 players have multiregion hacks of the “enter code X at stage Y” variety which can be readily found via Google.
Alan 02.27.06 at 10:47 pm
My CyberHome CH-DVD 300S
http://tinyurl.com/odmpc
cost $40 and a three-quarter hour converting it to a
region-free player with a remote hack discovered here…your one-stop shop for DVD remote hacks.
http://tinyurl.com/2w8qb
Now I just have to order those Clanger DVDs…oh, shit, I forgot. I don’t have any kids.
Alan 02.27.06 at 10:50 pm
Just to clarify, it wasn’t that complicated, but I did have to keep pressing the same combination of buttons on the remote and inserting, taking out a DVD, then opening and closing the DVD tray before it
did the trick.
thepoetryman 02.28.06 at 1:58 am
“Poetic Justice (Don’t burn the flag. Wash it!)” has a new poem posted that may interest you… Persecution’s Lament…
Kind regards,
Mark
http://apoeticjustice.blogspot.com/
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