Blakes7 February 2002

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RE: [B7L] Multi-region DVDs
by Nicola Mody-Nikoloff 12 Feb '02

12 Feb '02

Helen Atkins wrote: > I'm based in Australia, and use a Palasonic, which is a low > quality piece of > junk, requiring tickering everytime I want to change regions. > I had to write > myself instructions and put them inside the entertainment > unit so I could > remember them. > > I use the Australian and Chinese regions most, but the US and > UK regions > sometimes. Does anyone know of a good multi-region brand > that is less > temperamental, or a reliable means of "fixing" a single region brand? I'm in New Zealand, and we have a Pioneer 525 DVD player which was hacked by the shop we bought it from. They do it without even taking the lid off the player and thus voiding the warranty. It does 'auto zone' based on the zone of the DVD you insert. It pretends to be that zone, so you never need tell it what zone to use. The same goes for the DVD drive in our Dell PC. We happily play DVDs in both which we've bought here, the US and the UK. Nico *** This e-mail is privileged and confidential. If you are not the intended recipient please delete the message and notify the sender. ***

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Multi-region DVDs
by Helen Atkins 12 Feb '02

12 Feb '02

I'm based in Australia, and use a Palasonic, which is a low quality piece of junk, requiring tickering everytime I want to change regions. I had to write myself instructions and put them inside the entertainment unit so I could remember them. I use the Australian and Chinese regions most, but the US and UK regions sometimes. Does anyone know of a good multi-region brand that is less temperamental, or a reliable means of "fixing" a single region brand? Which region will the B7 DVDs be set for? _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp.

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re: videos and dvds
by JEB31538＠cs.com 12 Feb '02

12 Feb '02

Subject: Re: [B7L] Videos and DVDs To: blakes7(a)lists.lysator.liu.se In a message dated 02/09/2002 12:07:30 AM Central Standard Time, julia.jones(a)jajones.demon.co.uk writes: > Are multi-region players available in Region 1? They are, but they're very expensive and hard to find, at least in the area where I live. Tiger M +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The last time I looked on Ebay you could buy multi-region DVD players for something like $160 plus about $13 postage in the US. If you can believe the blurbs, these are the very same machines being sold for $300 by some stores. I have a friend who bought one off of Ebay and swears by it. The one she recommends is ACI all-region compact portable DVD player. To get to the information, just type in ACI DVD in the Ebay search slot. My friend warns against buying zero region players--at least, that is what I think she called them. Presumably some DVDs say they play every region and do not. There were a lot of problems involving DVD players which she was talking about, but I don't remember what all she said. She did say there was also some reason for waiting to buy a DVD player, too, because some new advancements might be made in the next year. The ACI DVD plays both region 1 and region 2. My friend says it's very easy to change the code by using the remote. She was just recommending to a bunch of us two weeks ago at a local (California) m/m slash fanclub party that we should all buy one since many of us like British TV series. She claims, and I have no clue if this is true or not, that we Americans, also, want to be able to play British DVDs because some of the British DVDs will have more information on them than the American ones. One of the series she mentioned where this would be true was Stargate. I personally find this hard to believe. I don't see why there would be differing amounts of information on a specific TV series depending what region the DVD is made for. I will be buying a multi-region DVD once it is for sure that B7 does come out on DVD. I'm not going to hold my breath. And then I will probably buy the multi-region ACI DVD player and ONE B7 DVD to make sure it does work before I invest in the entire series. Joyce

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Videos and DVDs
by Steve Rogerson 11 Feb '02

11 Feb '02

Jacqui said: "The B7 videos seem 'fairly thin on the ground' in the UK now - anybody else noticed this?" When I was in Forbidden Planet in central London last month, they had loads. However, don't forget the first DVD should be out soon. -- cheers Steve Rogerson http://homepages.poptel.org.uk/steve.rogerson Redemption 03, 21-23 February 2003, Ashford, Kent Celebrating 25 years of Blake's 7 and 10 years of Babylon 5 http://www.smof.com/redemption

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Brian Croucher at Cult TV
by Steve Rogerson 10 Feb '02

10 Feb '02

Heard last night at Starfleet Ball that Brian Croucher has been confirmed as a guest for Cult TV in Southport in October. http://www.festival.culttv.net -- cheers Steve Rogerson http://homepages.poptel.org.uk/steve.rogerson "In my world, there are people in chains and you can ride them like ponies" The alternative Willow, Buffy the Vampire Slayer

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RE: [B7L] re: videos and dvds
by Louise Rutter 10 Feb '02

10 Feb '02

Joyce wrote: > My friend warns against buying zero region players--at least, > that is what I think she called them. Presumably some DVDs say > they play every region and do not. There were a lot of problems > involving DVD players which she was talking about, but I don't > remember what all she said. She did say there was also some > reason for waiting to buy a DVD player, too, because some new > advancements might be made in the next year. > Region 0 players were designed to get around the region encoding on discs, but unfortunately some companies then upped the stakes and have started releasing discs that a Region 0 player can't read (the RCE Protection System - Region Coding Enhancement, I believe). A true multi-region player is the way to go. Not only do the extras vary greatly depending on region (usually Region 1 do best, but not always), but sadly it's also cheaper to buy the things from amazon.com and have them shipped across the Pond than it is to buy from amazon.co.uk. Go figure. Louise Apologies to Joyce for getting this twice, I always forget the Lyst coding doesn't reply to the group.

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From the Very Beginning
by Sally M 10 Feb '02

10 Feb '02

Vila could probably only exist *in* a show like Blakes 7. He'd never make it aboard a ship manned in a more conventional way (desirable attributes for heroes not normally including scattiness, cowardice, selfishness and self-indulgence) but he is able to stay because - *being* as it is a small group of fighters - his skills and humour, the unconventional advantages he brings, outweigh those drawbacks (well, most of the time - I doubt Blake or Cally thought they did in Shadow :-)). And while it might be more sensible for him, as Leia says, to ask to be dropped off somewhere nice, it also makes sense that there doesn't seem to *be* anywhere that he thinks better than where he is (which, given his lack of enthusiasm for Fighting for Freedom in S1-2, and the company he is made to keep in S3-4, says something about what he came from, methinks). Maybe what they all came from. Even in series 4, Xenon seems to still be better than being alone anywhere else ... _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com

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RE: Re: [B7L] From the Very Beginning
by jacquispeel＠netscape.net 10 Feb '02

10 Feb '02

Betty Ragan <ragan(a)sdc.org> wrote: >Nico Mody-Nikoloff wrote: > >> The Federation certainly seems to value viciousness, ruthlessness and a >> complete lack of affection or consideration for others, but given that Vila >> just doesn't fit that mould, where he came from can't have been too bad or >> he wouldn't have survived as long as he did with such lousy defences. > >Oh, I think Vila's got excellent defenses. They're just of a different >sort than everybody else's. Vila's philosophy seems to be: don't be >percieved as a threat (and thus a target), but be likeable and funny >enough (or useful enough!) that people bigger and badder than you will >be willing to protect you, even if they're condescending about it. It >does seem to work for him. > >-- >Betty Ragan

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Time passing
by Mel Saxby 10 Feb '02

10 Feb '02

Speaking as someone who saw the series on its first run, back when I was only a teenager, I sometimes feel sad when I watch B7, because so much time has passed. Here I sit, forty-one, older than Avon was at Gauda Prime, and I can't help thinking of all those who have gone before us, like Paul Daneman (Bellfriar), Ronald Lacey (Tynus), and so many others. What will our fandom be like in ten years time, or twenty? Will anyone still be interested? Will I be? We who were there at the beginning were very lucky, I think. I just wish I hadn't drifted away for so long, and missed so much. Blake's 7 is a part of the youth that has slipped away from me without me really noticing. In the same year as it began I was listening to The Jam's 'Setting Sons', and leaving school, and now I'm a factory worker, most likely till the day I retire. I wonder how the younger, newer fans will feel in twenty years time. Part of me loves B7 because it was part of my youth. I didn't have to make excuses for the dodgy sets and less-than-special effects - I had grown up watching 'Doctor Who', and it was just the normal thing. Newer fans must have tougher time of it, used to the glories of Babylon 5, Farscape and ST:TNG. They have to work a great deal harder to suspend their disbelief, something which we pretty much took for granted. Mel Courtesy of Mr Jack Daniels, I'm afraid, antidote to a Friday evening 2-to-10 shift :-) So, I'm not alone after all." Avon, Horizon. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.313 / Virus Database: 174 - Release Date: 1/2/02

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Re: Time passing
by Mel Saxby 10 Feb '02

10 Feb '02

I wrote, >Part of me loves B7 because it was part of my youth. I didn't have to make >excuses for the dodgy sets and less-than-special effects - I had grown up >watching 'Doctor Who', and it was just the normal thing. Newer fans must >have tougher time of it, used to the glories of Babylon 5, Farscape and >ST:TNG. They have to work a great deal harder to suspend their disbelief, >something which we pretty much took for granted. then Anna wrote: I saw B7 for the first time in 1998, having been just too young to see it the first time around. I started watching it, oddly enough, because there was an informal "So, did you see Babylon 5 last night?" discussion group that happened during morning coffee at work. Someone mentioned that there was an old BBC series that was just as good, and lent me her tapes. Perhaps years of Doctor Who inured me to dodgy sets, but I think that B7 still stands on its own merits, in competition with SF series made today. It's a character-driven show, and (as I was thinking only the other day while watching 'Enterprise') Really Shiney FX don't provide character. Dodgy though they are, I have a certain fondness for the sets/SFX. It can be fashionable to knock them, but the designers and producers of the stuff were doing the best they could with very limited resources, and you have to admire them for trying so hard. And of course, this forced the writers to keep our attention on the characters by writing them so well. Mind you, I always think B7 is terrific for bangs. There's nothing like a really good explosion to add a bit of realism. Though I love Babylon 5, and watch ST in various flavours, I sometimes find myself longing for a wideswept quarry to make an appearance just to get the characters out of the studio into the fresh air. Mel "So, I'm not alone after all." Avon, Horizon. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.313 / Virus Database: 174 - Release Date: 1/2/02

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