[OT] Ping Kate

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Here we go - available from Amazon UK, so you should be able to get it shipped to you. either direct from them or through amazon.com. :)

costumes in that were amazing. :D

"BEI Design" wrote in news:k7udnd2UmJe2RazYnZ2dnUVZ snipped-for-privacy@comcast.com:

no, European DVDs will not play on American players (unless you have a multizone player & a NTSC tv) lee

Amazon.Com has it available on this side of the pond.

They "might" be compatible if your DVD player is "region-free".

Try using Imdb.Com when looking for a move or series, they provide a link to the various Amazon sites.

"BEI Design" wrote

Beverly - My library has an Exxon/Mobile Masterpiece Theater- complete UK broadcast edition from 2002 on 3 DVDs and a BBC/Turner/Time Warner produced in 1967 on 7 DVDs available. Let me know if one of these versions is what you are looking for and I'll get whatever additional information I can for you.

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Do a google on "Forsyte Saga DVD" and you'll get 126,000 hits in 1.92 seconds! Ought to be one in there someplace.

JPBill

Beverly, I've seen the 2002 version and its a real heart breaker. I have never seen the B&W version. But we asked at Best Buy if we could buy a "zoneless" DVD player and they gave the impression those weren't being sold in the US. (This means that none of our Norwegian DVD's will play here :-( ) The TV is fine. American TV's are NTSC (Europe uses PAL format).

Good luck.

Kirsten

Buy a small, portable dvd player with video/audio out. check to make sure it is not 'zoned' at start. many if not most DVD players start unzoned and after you play DVDs several (maybe five) times then the region is irretrievably set.

I do not think the PAL/NTSC is an issue for the DVD is it is a whole bunch of single files being fed at a constant rate to the video display (just like the old style cartoons from individual cels were filmed). But if you want to transport the dvd player from one region to another, then you need switchable PAL/NTSC output.

for video tapes, samsung makes a relatively inexpensive (in usa, not so inexpensive in sweden) VCR that is multi-format and will play from or record to NTSC/PAL/SECAM vhs tapes. quality is not as great as a fixed conversion system but it beats having multiple VCRs and multiple TVs to hand the formats although the newer TVs in Sweden play both PAL and NTSC.

So the VCR problem (not asked can be easily solved); the dvd problem can be solved by having a second player. And I do recall seeing the zoneless DVD players in the amsterdam airport but I haven't searched here. try googling for such in usa.

klh in va

Kirsten Sollie wrote:

Sadly, that set in not available at amazon.com over here. I've searched six-ways-from-Sunday, no luck. The more recent version (2002?) in color was a flop IMHO. Ah, well, I'll just have to read the books again.

Beverly

Link?

Thanks, but the 2002 version was not very good, IMHO.

YES!!! If you can get me information on where I can purchase that one, I would really appreciate it.

Thanks!

Beverly

Did that, I'm looking specifically for the *1969 B&W version* shown here on PBS.

The more recent version was just not up to the standard set by the 1967 version IMO.

You can probably check out some DVDs from your local library. Not that they would be in Norse, you understand... ;-}

Thanks,

Beverly

Ok, I found where I can buy the USA version:

while I was perusing that page I also found: amazing production. Yikes, I will have to quit sewing in order to get them watched! :-( Thanks all,

Beverly

Amazon UK should be able to send it to you. :)

But, as I understand it, DVDs produced in Europe/UK are not compatible with USA DVD players. I really don't want to have to buy a "region 2" player. ;-)

Not to worry, though, I located a source over here. Yeah!!!

Thanks for your help,

Beverly

It's pretty easy and cheap to get your player dezoned over here, so I tend to forget there are zones!