Leo was voicing a more widely held perception amongst those with a higher than average level of technical knowledge. He thinks that much BBC content is not available region1 and so do lots of others. The fact that he was mistaken about Q1 is not really the point.
A search on Dads Army on amazon.com reveals three DVDs, two of which are Region2 http://amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw/103-0128029-8990273?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=dads+army How many people buying DVDs understand 'regions' either in the UK or USA? How many are willing to jump the hurdle and find out? On 26/06/07, Dave Whitehead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Leo's minor gripe was that a show that he would love to watch (Stephen Fry's QI - based on him viewing clips on youtube) wasn't available for him to buy on region1 dvd, what he didn't mention (probably didn't know) was that it's not available anywhere, its not released in the UK until middle of August. His main point was that if copyright owners were to make their programmes available worldwide for a reasonable fee then he'd gladly pay it to watch UK tv programmes. Looking on Amazon there are loads of region1 BBC series available, the most popular region1 dvd across all platforms (dvd/HD/bluray) on amazon.com is BBC's Planet Earth. Dave ----- Original Message ----- *From:* Richard Hyett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> *To:* [email protected] *Sent:* Tuesday, June 26, 2007 3:19 PM *Subject:* [backstage] DVD Region 2 In last weeks 'This Week in Tech' Leo Laporte made the point that many of the BBC's titles on DVD were only available on 'Region 2' format. Region 2 works fine on in Middle East, Iceland, Western Europe, Central Europe, Egypt, French overseas territories, Greenland, Japan, Lesotho, South Africa and Swaziland,but not in North America. A trip to Amazon.com <http://amazon.com/> confirms this. Perhaps there isn't much of a demand for BBC content from 300 million North Americans, but Leo was indignant anyway. We recently bought the entire series of MASH on DVD, it will take perhaps six months to get through it a leisurely pace. Six months when we won't be channel hopping, using Freeview or the IPlayer
