i bought the actual dvd, its the real thing and not a fraud..
its region 3 so you gotta check the encoding of your dvd player..
heres the linkhttp://www.sensasian.com/view/product.cgi/EN/V11851J-D
i have returned from over the rainbow, the little people were bothering the hell out of me!!
I followed the link...it looks legit to me, but that's the Region 2 Japan edition. If you're looking for Region 3, you can get the Hong Kong version here:
http://us.yesasia.com/en/prdTransfer.aspx?pid=1004100566
But then again, y'all should get region-free DVD-players, then it won't matter. (Region Locking sucks! )
And remember everybody: If a Japanese "Region 0" DVD shows up in eBay, it's most likely a bootleg.
ya might want to check the legitimacy of the h.k. ones too..
piracy and bootlegging are rampant there...
if youre one of the next 5 callers in the next 5 minutes, youll get absolutely nothing!!!
YesAsia can be trusted to not to sell Hong Kong bootlegs. I've probably bought over a hundred Hong Kong version DVDs and CDs from them over the last four years, and not a single one of those were bootlegs. The only bootleg DVDs or CDs I've ever gotten were through eBay, which is why I'm reluctant to shop there.
While Hong Kong films on Hong Kong verision DVD are often region-free, Japanese films are, like American films, rarely encoded as region-free in any market.
mabye so, but i have a region 3 and 2 dvd player..
oh well, it happens..
they never should have put regions on em anyway...
if youre one of the next 5 callers in the next 5 minutes, youll get absolutely nothing!!!
The bootlegs DVD don't have region code.
shareHow do you check the region on your DVD player?
I use my PS2, so would it matter? That and I live in the US so would I even be able to play it xD?
you will still be out of luck with the ps2...as for the dvd player, it should be on it somewhere or in the instruction book...
if one could answer the one true question in life "why", would he or she not then be god??
A regular DVD player will have a globe with a number on the back; that's the player's region selection. PS2...I'm not sure how to check, but it will be the same region as any DVD-player bought in the same country.
There are temporary hacks for the PS2 that can be done with a GameShark disk or something like that. (I don't remember exactly what it was, but my cousin used on of those on his PS2 so that we could watch a Region 6 DVD.)
Most DVD players can be permanantly hacked by entering a code with the remote.
Ah, that's what I would have to do then. My DVD player in region 1, so my PS2 must be region 1 as well.
But I can hack my PS2, not sure about the DVD player xD
Why do they put regiones on DVDs and stuff anyway oO?
Evil market control. Movies typically run in foreign theators a few months behind their domestic release, and likewise the domestic home video release hits the streets much sooner then the foreign home video release--or at least that's how it was back in the VHS age. This is why different video formats (i.e. NTSC and PAL) were established in the first place.
These days, Hollywood release dates around the globe differ by at most only a few weeks. The only remaining advantage behind this evil scheme is that whenever a foreign/non-Hollywood film is a hit, such as, oh say, "The Ring," or "Hero," it gives Hollywood time to exploit the film as either an American remake or an edited adaption, as the consumer's expensive alternative to waiting for a U.S. edition would be to purchase foreign equipment. (I never did get around to buying a PAL VCR...)
The result of this is usually that the American studio buys up the exclusive North American distribution rights to a foreign film, thus making it essentially illegal to sell the foreign edition in the U.S. and really damn hard to find one anyway, leaving only the inferior American DVD to choose from. (I get pissed whenever I see "Quinton Tarentino Presents" on the cover of a foreign film which he had absolutely nothing to do with the production of.)
Another horrible side-effect is that there are literally thousands of wonderful foreign films which will never be exported to foreign regions, just because they aren't as massively marketable in America as Chinese "Art Films."