if you like __________, you might enjoy ___________.

[jfb]

robots ... Dannybot
Blake's 7 ... Blake's Junction 7
Broken Social Scene ... The Love Crimes of Gillian Guess

That last is a surreal, ironic portrait (think To Die For) of the sex-charged, fame-crazed society we know as Canada. BSS wrote the score, and there's also a fantasy sequence set to Josh Rouse's "Love Vibration." The other two are comedic shorts--you can watch one of them online, and a trailer for the other.

Comments

[emmacrew.livejournal.com]

Me, too. We thought of it last week and said "surely it is on DVD by now." Turns out that the BBC has done the first two seasons, but only in region 2, and the season 1 dvd set seems to have lots of problems (like stopping randomly) and the people who are going to do the region 1 version are going to do it on the cheap (no extras, no new transfers) and goodness only knows when. It's aaallllmost enough to make me try to get a player for region 2. Almost.

[greyaenigma.livejournal.com]

I think I'll add that to my accumulation of straws I keep on the back of my camel.

Perhaps someday I'll get an all-region player.

[emmacrew.livejournal.com]

Is there a way to get one that isn't buying one that someone else did a warranty-voided modification to? I don't know much about it but that seemed to be what most of the ones a cursory google search brought up were.

[greyaenigma.livejournal.com]

I was under the impression that you could actually buy them (probably imported from overseas) that were manufactured to be able to handle all regions. I have this vague recollection that US players are the only ones they actually bother to set the region for.

[emmacrew.livejournal.com]

Then you start to run into issues with TV compatibility, no?

I read a couple of days ago that there are some region 1 DVDs that will only play their extras on a region 1 player; that it specifically looks for the tag that says 1 vs. a tag that says any or none. So annoying.

[greyaenigma.livejournal.com]

Oh. that does sound annoying. Grr.

[(Anonymous)]

I use one of my computers' DVD drives as my region 2 player. I'd never needed to watch US DVDs on it anyway, since I've got an actual DVD player for that. At the moment, I'm limited to watching them at the computer, but I could always drag the machine out to the living room and hook it up to the tv, since my video card's got rca & svideo outputs. Pretty cheap option when you've got the computer anyway, since most machines come with a DVD drive these days, with player software bundled. Just put in a region 2 disc early on, and it will allow you to lock to region 2 (most software players seem to let you switch regions a limited number of times before crapping out on you).

--Woj

[emmacrew.livejournal.com]

Perhaps after we replace my laptop we'll relegate the old laptop to region 2. that would work pretty well. Thanks for the tip!