Wonder why the US got the worst packing for Spiderman!

[Class316]

The crappy US version http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00006G8G4/qid=1035920437/sr=2-3/ref=sr_2_3/104-7250518-2021555

The Japanese version:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1575819560

The French version:

http://a333.g.akamai.net/f/333/6918/3h/img.cinestore.com/photo/zoom2/15/15454.jpg

http://www.cinestore.com/html/fiche_produits.php?groupe=1&page=1&id=15454&popup=1&ver=en&id_partenaire=1&code_origine=

[LazyReaper]

Oh! Is that a wooden box?! I'd love to have that with my limited edition! It looks much more cooler than the one we're getting! *grool* (I'm serious!)


-Aximlli-

[Daredevil_2003]

The US getting screwed over on a DVD. Somehow I'm not surprised :rolleyes:. I'm really starting to get tired of this crap. We always get gipped when it comes to special features (assuming they even put the friggin' movie out on DVD over here, that is) while other countries get these super-duper-fantastical special editions. What really irks me, though, is that most of these movies are made in the USA!!!!! But yet when DVD time comes around the natives get the most mediocre version while everybody else gets the goods. I am so pissed :mad:

[Daredevil_2003]

I think it's about time for that multi-region DVD player :(.

[Class316]

Originally posted by Daredevil_2003
I think it's about time for that multi-region DVD player :(.

IMO no point in keeping a region locked player!!

Region Free DVD player

Region Free DVD drive

Only way to go :yawn:

<pets his special feature packed They Live Region 2 UK DVD>

[Joe Wagner]

Egads that's cool!

They even get a limited edition hanging Spidey! Wickedly cool - now if we could only get that here.

-Joe!

[Cyporiean]

Interesting, Amazon has a different picture for the French set..

looks cooler IMO..

http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00006CFID/qid=1036025230/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2_2/171-2576306-6089004

Anyone know how to tell if the film is pan and scan only for the French?

[Class316]

Originally posted by Galvatron
Anyone know how to tell if the film is pan and scan only for the French?

According to amazon.fr

Format image :
Cinémascope
Full Screen (Standard) - 1.33:1

from http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/549872/171-9436309-9934651

Le format original du film [original format of the film] : 2.35 (cinémascope), 1.85 (panoramique), 1.66 ou 1.33 (plein écran).

[Calhoun07]

I am keen towards the Australian version:

http://www.ezydvd.com.au/g/i/p/221348.jpg
http://www.ezydvd.com.au/g/i/p/spideypack.jpg

Unfortunately, ezydvd.com.au is charging International customers "insurance" on their DVDs now. They will charge you a whopping twenty bucks on top of their price for Spider Man, and I was looking at the upcoming Mr Bean set from them and they will charge 18.00 insurance if I order that as well. :( I guess they don't like International customers. In fact, the first time I ordered from them, they wrote me back asking me if I was sure I wanted PAL DVDs, as if I was some git who didn't know what he was doing. :rolleyes:

At any rate, I prefer the international packaging for several things, the Star Trek season sets especially. It's just North America that has the crappy ass cardboard cases on those while everybody else gets the slick plastic snap cases.

[Algernon]

Not to thread crap or anything but who cares about the packing of DVDs? As long as its practical(has the title on the spine and can fit on a shelf) is all that matters to me. I mean it is about the movie after all. Plus I have to wonder how many people have DVD players in other parts of the world. Is it still a niche? I'd think once things get mainstreamed they usually become more generic no?

Originally posted by Daredevil_2003
I think it's about time for that multi-region DVD player :(. Sure multi-region is good and all but with PAL and NTSC you still have to suffer thru specific artifacts and such(ie speedup). Or have multiregion players remedied this problem?

[Cogliostro]

I want a hanging Spiderman thing :(

[Calhoun07]

Originally posted by Algernon
Not to thread crap or anything but who cares about the packing of DVDs? As long as its practical(has the title on the spine and can fit on a shelf) is all that matters to me. I mean it is about the movie after all. Plus I have to wonder how many people have DVD players in other parts of the world. Is it still a niche? I'd think once things get mainstreamed they usually become more generic no?

Sure multi-region is good and all but with PAL and NTSC you still have to suffer thru specific artifacts and such(ie speedup). Or have multiregion players remedied this problem?

Get a Malata player to avoid the problem.

And if you're asking who cares about the packaging, I suppose you're also neutral on the keep case/snapper debacle?

Personally, I think that if every other country in the world can have better cases, there is no reason the company who produced those cases can't make the same for North American people. Maybe the same number will sell, but you can't tell me you'd rather see a nicer case on your shelf than a not so great case. Sure, you got the same movie, but why do stuidos insist on using inferior packaging for certain releases in America?

[Algernon]

Originally posted by Calhoun07
And if you're asking who cares about the packaging, I suppose you're also neutral on the keep case/snapper debacle?They're annoying sure. But its about the movie after all.Originally posted by Calhoun07 Sure, you got the same movie, but why do stuidos insist on using inferior packaging for certain releases in America? Thats probably because DVD is mainstream now. They can afford to cut corners on little things like that because joe-six-pack could care less.

[Calhoun07]

Originally posted by Algernon
They can afford to cut corners on little things like that because joe-six-pack could care less.


I think the cutting corners thing might be part of it, but not for Joe Six Pack. Joe Six Pack isn't blowing a hundred bucks on Star Trek season sets, for example. My theory is they are cutting costs and passing an inferior product on to Americans because most of them don't educate themselves on alternative releases from around the world and most are oblivious. And what else are they going to buy? It's not like there is a choice out there for them.

[Algernon]

Originally posted by Calhoun07
My theory is they are cutting costs and passing an inferior product on to Americans because most of them don't educate themselves on alternative releases from around the world and most are oblivious.See thats the conspiracy against America. They make it so difficult to get multi-region players here(I don't see any readily available at say Best Buy or Walmart). That would be THE reason for people not knowing about other region's packaging.

[Leaping Larry Jojo]

The reason why the US gets crap is that it's already a sure sell. All of us gullible peons are sure to buy the film--they think we don't need extra incentive...and they're right! Corporate logic--minimize to maximize.

Jojo