Does anyone own this on DVD?


Does anyone own this on DVD? I would love to watch it all, I've watched as many clips as I can on Youtube, but I'd love to sit down and watch it all! If anyone owns this on DVD I would love a copy! I cant afford it buy it on DVD :( My email address is [email protected], if anyone could let me know that would be great :)

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I'm using Netflix

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Search Ebay for a used set. That's what I did. I searched until one day a DVD set came up that I could afford. I also have the 2003 episode DVD on the World Trade Center, which I got the same way- used.

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Just saw a listing on amazon for 7 dollars.. brand new... it was gone when I tried to grab it D:

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$7? Must have been only one disc. Good thing you didn't leap too fast. I was gonna buy it when it first hit DVD, but waited when I heard about the airing of episode 8. I bought it from Tower Records when they went out of business, the complete 8 disc copy. I later saw the 7 disc copy in a used CD/DVD store. I told the person who was interested that an 8th disc was released after the set they were eyeing hit DVD and was available separately (online if nowhere else). But I also told them, they could probably buy a used copy of the 8 disc set online that I bought for about the same money combined that the offline store wanted for the 7 bagger and say an Amazon Seller for disc 8 alone. I do not recall whether they bought it or not. I remember the cashier in Tower (it was the store that had been in Annapolis Maryland) asking me if I was buying it because I was a New Yorker by birth, and I told him "you better believe it"

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In Australia (Region 4), it was re-released by Madman Entertainment on the 8th February, 2012 as a 5-disc PAL format ALL Region DVD box set.

Information may be found here:

http://www.madman.com.au/catalogue/view/16904/new-york-a-documentary-film

As it is region free, it can be played on any DVD player, as long as it can play PAL format DVDs (Europe, U.K., Ireland, Southa Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Oceania). i.e. in other words it can't be played on the North American NTSC format players unless those players accept BOTH NTSC & PAL formats.

For the North American market, a NTSC version produced in 2003 can be found at the PBS Shop online:
http://www.shoppbs.org/product/index.jsp?productId=1863460&cp=&sr=1&kw=ric+burns&origkw=ric+burns&parentPage=search

There is no indication otherwise so one could safely assume that it is a Region 1 (US/Canada) NTSC format edition. It is expensive @ a srp of US$89.99 for an 8-disc DVD box set, but like most documentaries from the Burns brothers, it is worth every cent because of the exhaustive research effort in creating and producing this documentary.

Because the series was produced in 1999 (& updated post 9/11), I can't be certain that it remains "in print" elsewhere, however if you can get a copy on eBay etc., grab it as it is a brilliant documentary "biography" of New York.

Cheers!

Locked my wire coat-hanger in the car - good thing that I always carry spare keys in my pocket :)

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(old post)

My library just got a copy of the exact version you mentioned.
I enjoyed it, a good series.

I agree the skyline is dated, but NYC history goes back far further than 9/11 and the building of the towers. This series starts at the origin of the city.

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