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galacticprobe
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Yeah, unfortunately. The only TVs I'd found that had the capability of playing NTSC and PAL formats had costs that were equal to a semester's worth of tuition (in-state), or room and board for my daughter's college. (And while my GI Bill is paying for her college tuition, guess which of the other two – TV vs. Room and Board – won out?)

I've actually e-mailed both the BBC and 2|entertain (and one other I can't remember who have produced official TOL DVDs) asking them about releasing more TOL DVDs for Region 1 because there were many fans in the US that would like to buy them, and I got what was basically canned replies from each one – that whole "We strive to provide the best service to our customers and your comments are very important to us…" From there they went on to explain how they relate to customers and review their feedback – pretty much degenerating into another few paragraphs of "Blah, blah, blah. We thank you for your input."

What I can't understand is why the BBC is ignoring this side of the pond when it comes to TOL when just about every other program they've produced is available for Region 1. IMHO, if you can get an obscure series like "Space Precinct" in Region 1, then you should be able to get TOL in Region 1 as well. (And for the record, I do like the Gerry Anderson series, all of them so far.)

Dino.

—–Original Message—–
From: samwebster2000 <samwebster2000@yahoo.com>
To: shiponedingroup <shiponedingroup@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Fri, Nov 4, 2011 7:53 am
Subject: [shiponedingroup] Re: Seeking Comments On A Source

All the series are available on DVD.

But yes as Bill said they are all PAL I think, so would be a problem for you?

— In shiponedingroup@yahoogroups.com, LambuLambu@… wrote:
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> Thanks for the info. I'll have to check out the rareshares site. For some reason the dropbox sample you gave me the link to keeps crashing my browsers.
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> I might just keep checking ebay and Amazon, though, like you suggest. I'm not much of a fan of, as you say "illegal" copies. You can't rely on the quality of the copies (or the person selling them), but mainly it does not show up on the copyright holder's feedback (in this case, probably the BBC) as a sale of their product, which in turn makes it looks like there isn't much of a demand for the series, and therefore the BBC is less likely to release more of them.
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> Thank you!
> Dino.
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> —–Original Message—–
> From: samwebster2000 <samwebster2000@…>
> To: shiponedingroup <shiponedingroup@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Fri, Nov 4, 2011 8:14 am
> Subject: [shiponedingroup] Re: Seeking Comments On A Source
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> I don't know about the iOffer site, I have not had dealings there.
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> What I can say that obviously they are copies, therefore not official releases and could be technically termed as 'illegal'.
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> If the technicalities do not worry you, and you have a braodband connection then a better possible approach may be to join one of the private sites which share old TV programmes.
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> One such fairly recent new site is http://rareshare.me , I believe that sign-up is at the moment open, so there should be no trouble in joining.
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> There are already several onedin line series available there, and it is expected that all will be before very long.
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> It is not necessary to part with any money at all if you follow the rules of the site.
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> The quality of the video is, really little different form the DVD they were sourced from.
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> There is a sample here:
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4965107/Onedin%20sample.avi
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> Alternatively if you want to you can buy all the episodes on official DVD releases, from places like eBay and Amazon.
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> Hope this helps.
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