Post by Kimba W LionPost by weary flakeThat thread reassures me that NFV is legal. Clods who claim that
DVD-Rs are illegal have never bought much old movies. NFV, Grapevine,
Unknown Video, etc., are DVD-Rs and malign stooges for competitors have
been trying for years to soil their name.
You're right. Besides, I had a couple of the NFV L&H DVD-Rs and I thought they
were excellent quality--not at all like a transfer from VHS.
Nostalgia Family Video, Grapevine Video, Unknown Video have been in
business for years, and they're part of the good guys, and I suggest
the jerks who constantly state they are crooked are stooging for
shady competitors, the Platinum Passports, Sinister Cinema, Reel
Classics, Mill Creek, you know, the kind that steal product and then
burn their logos into the picture, cause only those who steal product
would do such a thing.
NFV is not reliable catalog-wide, as far as quality, but neither is
Kino: ever see their VHS edition of the soviet film "Happiness"? But
the Kino edition of Happiness is better than nothing! (rock solid
subtitles with a violently shaking picture.)
Post by Kimba W LionPost by weary flakeWhat is illegal is to "hack" a dvd player to play different regions.
Not true at all.
To be more accurate, it is illegal to supply a DVD player that doesn't
obey region coding.
Post by Kimba W LionPost by weary flakeThis is illegal worldwide
The Australian government has said that region coding is an illegal restraint
of trade.
Glad that Australiavoices some dissent to region-coding, but
manufacturers are still bound to comply with DVD-player licenses to
obey region coding, user prohibitions, etc.
Post by Kimba W LionPost by weary flakeSo much for "just order your out-of-print Laurel and Hardy
DVDs from Europe and hack a DVD player to play them" instead of ordering
perfectly legal American DVD-Rs, already made to order and ready to ship!
There is no reason to avoid small companies that release films on DVD-R. That
is the only economical way a small company can work. There is also no reason
to avoid ordering foreign DVDs when the same item is not available
domestically. Just make sure there is a simple way to unlock your DVD player.
There is an advantage to getting a US-made DVD when it's available: Sound
films are transferred at the proper 24 fps; DVDs made for PAL countries run
the films at 25 fps.
US made DVDs are no guarentee that foreign films are at the right speed
and vice-versa. Lotta junky transfers out there, and old movie buffs
see it.