[NO SPOILERS] Evangelion 3.33 on Blu-ray and DVD April 24th

[Giji Shinka]

They'd better release it before I go on my one-month anime hiatus. I'll murder somebody if not.

Well, you can always move your hiatus few months forward. Even if you try, you will never be free of anime, even for a day.
(Like i once tried to put on a hiatus for two weeks........Didn't work as planned..........)

[Nuclear Lunchbox]

Well, you can always move your hiatus few months forward.

I can't do that. I made a commitment in the departures thread; there's no changing it.

[tomrule123]

Would love to get it...
1) if it weren't for the high price due to importing and how things are priced over there
2) if I knew Japanese fluently.
Sadly for me, I have to wait longer for an American Company (likely Funimation again) to be able to distribute the film here with subtitles, dub, and whatnot.

[Amitch1991]

i have 2 questions related to this topic :

1. Would a Japanese region DVD work in the UK ?

2.Does Amazon.co.jp ship to the UK ?

It would be great not to have to wait much longer for 3.33 in the UK

[Giji Shinka]

i have 2 questions related to this topic :

1. Would a Japanese region DVD work in the UK ?

2.Does Amazon.co.jp ship to the UK ?

It would be great not to have to wait much longer for 3.33 in the UK

1. If you buy it for Blu-Ray player/Playstation 3(?)

2. I don't know.

[pwhodges]

1) Yes - both are region 2 (for BD they are different regions, but the BD of Q is multi-region, so that's OK).

2) Yes - but many marketplace sellers do not, so check where the purchase is coming from. CDJapan also ships to the UK.

[Amitch1991]

1) Yes - both are region 2 (for BD they are different regions, but the BD of Q is multi-region, so that's OK).

2) Yes - but many marketplace sellers do not, so check where the purchase is coming from. CDJapan also ships to the UK.

thanks for the help :)

[TheFriskyIan]

What about the U.S.? Can a Japanese DVD work here?

[riffraff11235]

What about the U.S.? Can a Japanese DVD work here?

DVD? No.
Blu-Ray? Yes.

[qu4d]

DVD - depends on your DVD player. Most players can be unlocked with your remote control.

Just search your dvd player like "philips dvd player 2000" or whatever plus "code free". You will probably find a code with easy instructions to make it region free.

[Nuclear Lunchbox]

DVD - depends on your DVD player. Most players can be unlocked with your remote control.

Just search your dvd player like "philips dvd player 2000" or whatever plus "code free". You will probably find a code with easy instructions to make it region free.

Already did this a while back. However, there are some DVDs that you can't play here no matter what, like ones from England. Those are recorded in PAL, and the USA plays NTSC. Japan has NTSC too, so we're lucky in that regard.

[pwhodges]

My DVD players handle both PAL and NTSC; I thought most did these days. Most UK music DVDs I buy are all-region NTSC, so dual-standard is expected here. I would expect the manufacturers to use the same dual-standard chips world-wide, rather than having different less-capable ones for the US.

[Nuclear Lunchbox]

My DVD players handle both PAL and NTSC; I thought most did these days (Japanese DVD are R2 like UK, but NTSC like US). Most UK music DVDs I buy are all-region NTSC.

I'm not sure what you mean. Region coding and NTSC have nothing to do with one another; you can set a DVD player to play anything 1 through 6, but unless the disc was coded in NTSC it won't play on an American player. If you bought a UK player, it would play everything region 2 and whatever else you set it to play, but it would only be able to play PAL and not NTSC.

[qu4d]

My DVD players handle both PAL and NTSC; I thought most did these days. Most UK music DVDs I buy are all-region NTSC, so dual-standard is expected here. I would expect the manufacturers to use the same dual-standard chips world-wide, rather than having different less-capable ones for the US.

My old DVD- and new BD-player can handle NTSC and PAL as well. I (region 2) have a few DVDs from Japan and the USA.

[pwhodges]

What I am saying is that UK players have to handle NTSC as well as PAL, and I wouldn't expect the US to be supplied with different, less-capable players. Why should the Chinese factories bother making twice as many different chips? IOW, I am surprised that you have a player that can't handle PAL - are you actually sure of that?

(edit) Looking at a thread elsewhere from nearly five years ago, it listed seven US-bought DVD players, of which even then five played PAL OK. The two that didn't were expensive ones (i.e. not cheap Chinese imports), but I doubt that matters now.

[TheFriskyIan]

Actually guys, maybe I'm just stupid with regions. But under Product Details, it says 3.33 is All Regions.

[pwhodges]

Yes, the BD is all regions, but the DVD is not (note also that BD and DVD regions are in any case quite different). It seems a curious way to go about it.

[TheFriskyIan]

Yes, the BD is all regions, but the DVD is not (note also that BD and DVD regions are in any case quite different). It seems a curious way to go about it.

*Checks 3.33 DVD and compares to 3.33 BD*

Gasp! You're right. That's very odd, what's the point in making the DVD Region specific? Or is it just easier to make BD's region free?

[qu4d]

Gasp! You're right. That's very odd, what's the point in making the DVD Region specific? Or is it just easier to make BD's region free?

BDs are more modern and so the system got kinda abolished, but region codes were also a way of stopping you from importing films for less money from other countries.

[TheFriskyIan]

BDs are more modern and so the system got kinda abolished, but region codes were also a way of stopping you from importing films for less money from other countries.

That's ridiculous, imports cost just as much as the blood of your first born child. I don't see how importing the film from other countries makes it more cheap unless you're getting it from China, but by then you're not even going to get the real movie.