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slutless in seattle
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Posted - Jan 19 2001 : 11:00PM
I know this has been touched on in previous threads. I have been to www.dvdzone2.com before and noticed they had no method of convering euros to USD which makes me suspect they only ship within the european community. Any state-siders familiar with this company?

I am looking for the european equivalent of 5 Star: reliable, easy to use, cheap, and comprehensive. An english language translation would be nice as well.

Also, arer there any legal implications I should be aware of in ordering european or euro-versions of titles that may contain scenes of fisting, pissing or watersports? Note: I am not interested in underage.

I did check out Roccos site to see about ordering direct; Rocco only stocks VHS and PAL - what a luddite! Dont'cha just hate seeing Rocco push some poor euro-sluts face in a toilet bowl knowing that the previous scene of her peeing in the same bowl (muddying the waters, so to speak) has been cut? I sure do;-)

If StephDunns fears about the Bush administration prove true this may be our last bastion against censorship.

the search continues....

...a mind is a terrible thing to waste

Joey Starr
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Still wanking after all these years.
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Posted - Jan 20 2001 : 3:49AM
Don't know of the legal implications but have you thought about the technical implications of ordering European DVDs?

First they are all PAL. Can your DVD/TV display PAL (NTSC is the American standard)?

Second although most are zone free, a few are "Zone 2" only, which means you won't be able to play them unless you have a multizone player. USA and Canada are "Zone 1"

Third many don't have an English audio track (i.e you'll only have French or German dialogue for instance).

Joey

Joey Starr
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Still wanking after all these years.
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Posted - Jan 20 2001 : 4:07AM
They ship to the US.

Check at

http://www.dvdzone2.com/cgi-bin/en/OM.cgi?command=page&page=shipping1

Then click on "launch" button bellow "calculate your rate and delivery time".

For exchange rates check :

http://www.xe.net/ucc/


Currently 1 Euro is worth about 0.93 US $


Joey

gradeA
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slutless in seattle
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Posted - Jan 20 2001 : 6:31PM
Thanks Joey - no I hadn't thought about the technical implications though I am getting a new computer w/a pretty sophisticated DVD drive and software....guess I'll have to experiment with it.

As far as translations go, I'd prefer that the girls moan in French or Germen then being dubbed over in English:-)

...not that you would, but you could

absinthe
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Finland
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Posted - Jan 22 2001 : 9:20AM
You mean shop.roccofunclub.com? AFAIK NA customers will get NTSC versions of tapes automatically.
Their catalogue includes a "DivX;)" version of Roccofunclub and that is a newer format than even DVD, so I can´t really agree with that luddite thing either.
Shopping at Rocco´s site was weird though: no responses to e-mail, no order confirmation, no shipping confirmation, no invoice with shipment and the Divx;) I got was saved on two CD-R´s, "cover art" was basically just regular CD-R´s blancos with "CD 1" and "CD 2" written on with a black pen.

The only DVD-merchant selling Mediterranean releases I know of is Spanish www.dvdgo.com. At the moment there is only one Rocco title, Rocco Ravishes Prague. And according the site it only has spanish language track, which I doubt is the original audio track of that movie.

P.S When posting about "area-locked" DVD´s released in different continents, could everyone please address these lockings as regions instead of zones . I know that this sounds trivial, but there are other systems called zones. These hardly draw any international interest, but here´s a link to Brittish site with some info on European distribution zones.
The current trend being more and more harassment to free trade of digital media, studios licencing their titles only if DVD´s have "forced subtitles" or even missing audio tracks, I find detailed info on releases very relevant. After all modifications for region-coded discs are widely available, but there is nothing you can do if the original audio track simply isn´t there.

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