Nov

17

DVD Shopping

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I discovered yesterday that Barton Fink and The Draughtsman’s Contract are both available on DVD in France. Thankfully they both have English language tracks, so they’re now on their way to me. A combination of O-Level French, Google Translate, and the fact that all Amazon sites work pretty much the same way made it relatively simple to place the order.

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, which only seems to be available in Australia, arrived for me recently.

I found all of these pretty much by chance.

What I’d really like to see is a global comparison site for DVDs, telling me where things are available, and where appropriate comparing the differences in different regional versions, and telling me where I can buy whichever version looks best.

DVDcompare is pretty good, telling me for example that the Portuguese version of Lost Highway has a Dolby Digital 5.1 track and additional extra features. But it doesn’t tell me where I can buy it(I still can’t find an online Portuguese DVD site!), and it doesn’t know about any of the 3 DVDs I mentioned above.

I found a site once that did worldwide DVD price comparisons. But I can’t find it again.

Does anyone know of any useful sites for this sort of thing?

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