Blu-Ray Best Of The Best - for discussing releases only

[Strider]

ive got a us ps3 and loving it, its nice to know when some niche japanese film gets a release I know I can play it, also you can get some movies on the cheap via movietyme somewhat regually.

Do i need a step down converter?

[Number45]

Nope, standard kettle lead with a 5 amp fuse.

[Strider]

well movietyme do the machine for 360 which includes 48 hr delivery. i wonder how much i'll get boned on customs...

[NekoFever]

Has anyone heard anything about region coding on Cars? I see it's out here on Monday, a month ahead of the US release, so I'd be ordering right now were it not for the fact that I have a US PS3. Typical that one BD that I actually want comes out here first...

I got my US PS3 from VGP where it's a bit more expensive than Movietyme when you factor in shipping (it also comes in two days from them) but they'll mark the value down for you and insure it. I know two other people who got one from them without getting hit for customs as well.

[JP]

I don't think it's been announced yet but Disney have been region free in the past.

[On The Edge of Insanity]

well movietyme do the machine for 360 which includes 48 hr delivery. i wonder how much i'll get boned on customs...

You might want to wait, as I'd guess the US will get a price cut for Christmas like the EU has. I think it was meant to be $399 with a copy of Spiderman on Blu-ray.

[dvdmike]

Disney are the worst for locking discs

[Lyris]

For region locking? Fox are much worse but I guess you might not count them seeing as they lock everything.

[JP]

It really seems to depend on which label Disney use.

[dvdmike]

Thats why, Disney are inconsistant

[Angry the Clown]

The PS3 says its 1:25 exactly, the audio sounds normal to me

Excellent. Thank you for that.

I think that Cars is released on monday over here. I wouldn't be surprise to see me picking it up in town rather than ordering it online which is usually a lot cheaper.

I've not seen it yet so it should a be a treat to see it the first time in HD.

Be warned, the UK cut of Cars is, to coin a phrase, "Clarksonified" if that's of any consequence to you. I can actually tolerate the man, but I don't want him in my film collection.

[JP]

Be warned, the UK cut of Cars is, to coin a phrase, "Clarksonified" if that's of any consequence to you. I can actually tolerate the man, but I don't want him in my film collection.

Sounds like a plus to me!

What does he actually do?

[Angry the Clown]

He voices Lightning McQueen's agent as I recall, replacing Jeremy Piven who does it in the US version. Piven annoys me more than Clarkson does generally as Clarkson is merely a silly caricature and Piven's just a bit of a tw*t these days, but regardless, Piven's the original choice for the role and it's not like Pixar to do what I can't abide and pander to popular culture by shoehorning in references and voice artists people would instantly recognise. They leave that kind of lazy work to the gormless so and so's at Dreamworks.

[Lyris]

I see Mr. The Clown's opinion exactly matches my own, I bought the standard def DVD from Australia for that reason and it's why I'm waiting on the American BD.

I don't want to watch a film that's entire purpose is a celebration of Americana (Route 66 and all that) and then hear some git from BBC2 talking over it.

[NekoFever]

Be warned, the UK cut of Cars is, to coin a phrase, "Clarksonified" if that's of any consequence to you. I can actually tolerate the man, but I don't want him in my film collection.

That's that, then. Import version it is. I love Top Gear but I think Clarkson is an annoying ****.

Reminds me of the time I bought the UK version of Shrek 2 on DVD and was really fecking annoyed to hear the ugly stepsister voiced by Jonathon Ross and Joan Rivers (as herself; it even looks like her!) voiced by Kate Thornton, for some reason looking 40 years older.