Match Point - Australia

[Veronica Mars]

Originally Posted by howarmat

Veronica PMed me so I decided to test again. It worked on my sony 560 and my PS3 on latest firmware. also



you can see the region free label on the back of the case and the disc itself. They might have changed the disc and made it region locked since the original release. You can check you copies and report back findings for those that cannot get the disc to play.

Thanks for the reply. Do you mind sharing who you bought it from?

Ezydvd states it's region B.

Could they have really changed it?? Does anyone know of a site that shows the Icon version with the A, B, C that shows this disc is, indeed, region free?

[gettodamoofies]

Originally Posted by Veronica Mars

Thanks for the reply. Do you mind sharing who you bought it from?

Ezydvd states it's region B.

Could they have really changed it?? Does anyone know of a site that shows the Icon version with the A, B, C that shows this disc is, indeed, region free?

Ignore EzyDVD. Their information is never particularly reliable regarding regions, audio or aspect ratios.

You can also buy from:

JB Hi-Fi (though a little expensive at the moment)
Chaos

[steve_dave]

Originally Posted by Veronica Mars

Thanks for the reply. Do you mind sharing who you bought it from?

Ezydvd states it's region B.

Could they have really changed it?? Does anyone know of a site that shows the Icon version with the A, B, C that shows this disc is, indeed, region free?

For future reference:

EzyDVD, like Amazon UK, does not test region playability on discs. The person(s) who enter information on the products also does not have access to the actual products, again like Amazon UK. The person keying in the information is going to use the safest specifications possible. Hence the "Region B" notation.

Match Point is a Region A, B, and C disc and will work on US and Canadian Blu-ray Disc players.

[howarmat]

http://chaos.com/product/match-point...03-224645.html

this is where i got my copy, dont see why it would be different though

[Veronica Mars]

Wow, thanks for all the help everyone!

I googled online stores in Australia and must have sent 10 e-mails asking if they'd check if that disc was region free.

I was nervous because I could have sworn I knew this was out and since I passed on it before, I'm guessing my research came out that it wouldn't play in my region A player.

At least Chaos states it's region free, so if there is a problem they'd have to take it back.

But, for now, I'm just excited to add this to my collection! And get rid of another SD DVD.

The icing on the cake would be if against all odds, the Icon release of Bend it Like Beckham also turns out to be region free. It might be the only chance I get to ever owning it in HD.

Again, thanks everyone. I appreciated all the help. Spending $30 on a blu can't be an every day occurrence but September was a slow month. One of the places I found when I used google was named Atlantic and they had MP listed at around $15US. But they haven't responded and I got burned once by ordering from a place that didn't get any recommendations here and Chaos is definitely trustworthy company.

[gettodamoofies]

Originally Posted by Veronica Mars

Again, thanks everyone. I appreciated all the help. Spending $30 on a blu can't be an every day occurrence but September was a slow month. One of the places I found when I used google was named Atlantic and they had MP listed at around $15US. But they haven't responded and I got burned once by ordering from a place that didn't get any recommendations here and Chaos is definitely trustworthy company.

Atlantic DVD is OK but their operation is a little less organised in my opinion. Your "big 4" online retailers (in terms of size of company and reputation) for Australia are:

EzyDVD
JB Hi-Fi
Chaos
Sanity

Then you've got second tier retailers like:

Fetch DVD
Atlantic DVD
Devoted DVD

[Frozenpinky]

I want this movie on Blu in the States already. If not, I'll have to import the Australian one... or the Hong Kong one

[Veronica Mars]

Originally Posted by atexp80

Atlantic DVD is OK but their operation is a little less organised in my opinion. Your "big 4" online retailers (in terms of size of company and reputation) for Australia are:

EzyDVD
JB Hi-Fi
Chaos
Sanity

Then you've got second tier retailers like:

Fetch DVD
Atlantic DVD
Devoted DVD

Well, as long as they are honest, then that's good and in the future people who come here looking for this blu, they should look there because I'm almost positive it was $15.

That's half what I paid Chaos. Maybe it was a pricing error, but I really went with Chaos because they listed region 0, all regions, in their item description, and with some confusion on this title about whether it might have been released once region free and again region B locked, I wanted to have no problem with returning it should something not be what I'm expecting. Chaos can't say, "we listed it as region B and you shouldn't have bought it." Atlantic could have.

If there wasn't the issue with some people saying it didn't play in region A players or if there was a review posted stating it was region free, I would have probably ordered from Atlantic even if it ended up taking an extra week to get here because they aren't as efficient as Chaos or Ezydvd.

$15 for this is quite the deal. It's amazing that people who just think Woody Allen has lost his touch or don't like his classics don't want to see this. It's truly a great movie. It makes Vicky Christina Barcelona look like Road Trip.

I still don't understand why so many titles are getting released elsewhere but not here and supposedly it's about money.

I think more money would be made in the US for Pulp Fiction, Match Point, and Amelie (to name a few) than in much less populated countries like England or Australia. I just don't get it.

Big thanks to Howarmat for getting the ball rolling in allowing me to add Match Point to my BD collection.

[howarmat]

Originally Posted by Veronica Mars

Well, as long as they are honest, then that's good and in the future people who come here looking for this blu, they should look there because I'm almost positive it was $15.

That's half what I paid Chaos. Maybe it was a pricing error, but I really went with Chaos because they listed region 0, all regions, in their item description, and with some confusion on this title about whether it might have been released once region free and again region B locked, I wanted to have no problem with returning it should something not be what I'm expecting. Chaos can't say, "we listed it as region B and you shouldn't have bought it." Atlantic could have.

If there wasn't the issue with some people saying it didn't play in region A players or if there was a review posted stating it was region free, I would have probably ordered from Atlantic even if it ended up taking an extra week to get here because they aren't as efficient as Chaos or Ezydvd.

$15 for this is quite the deal. It's amazing that people who just think Woody Allen has lost his touch or don't like his classics don't want to see this. It's truly a great movie. It makes Vicky Christina Barcelona look like Road Trip.

I still don't understand why so many titles are getting released elsewhere but not here and supposedly it's about money.

I think more money would be made in the US for Pulp Fiction, Match Point, and Amelie (to name a few) than in much less populated countries like England or Australia. I just don't get it.

Big thanks to Howarmat for getting the ball rolling in allowing me to add Match Point to my BD collection.

hey i just hope it plays for you! kinda got me scared that the distribution company might have pulled a switch a roo!

[Veronica Mars]

Originally Posted by howarmat

hey i just hope it plays for you! kinda got me scared that the distribution company might have pulled a switch a roo!

It's certainly possible and I'd be very disappointed.

But, at the very least, Chaos lists it as all regions on their own website, so they'd be responsible for return shipping and a refund because I followed their information.

If there was a repressing of region B locked blus and I bought it from a site that lists it as region B (all of the others I checked stated region B only), I'd have taken a shot and to add insult to injury I'd be out the money to send it back as defective.

Besides, I know you'll give me your region free Blu if I get a region B locked copy.

edit to add:

This site also claims Icon's version is region free. When I have time, I'm going to have to give that list a good looking over. I'm not going to import a ton, but maybe a few titles I really want are out there and I never knew it.

http://bluray.liesinc.net/index.php?region=b

[nitin]

I got mine two weeks ago from JB for $AU16. Can check today to see if it has region locking or any PAL or 1808i 50hz stuff that would stuff up US playback.

[gettodamoofies]

Originally Posted by howarmat

hey i just hope it plays for you! kinda got me scared that the distribution company might have pulled a switch a roo!

I would be highly surprised if they changed the region status of a disc mid-production so I think you're safe Veronica Mars.

[Veronica Mars]

Originally Posted by atexp80

I would be highly surprised if they changed the region status of a disc mid-production so I think you're safe Veronica Mars.

Thanks, I'm feeling better about it after getting that link and an e-mail from ezydvd saying they corrected their website because they looked into it and found out it was, indeed, a region free blu ray.

Of the over 10 places in Australia about this, only ezydvd wrote to me stating that they checked and saw that the discs were region free and that they changed their website info to reflect that.

A few companies insist it's region B locked and it's not that they don't even want to check, they just reply that it just couldn't be that they would carry anything that was region free. One replied that she checked about the blu ray with her distributor and told me she knew it was REGION 4 and she couldn't help me further.

No need to name names. It's just great that a Chaos had it right, that ezydvd actually cared enough to look and get it right for their customers, and the people on this board are so generous with their time and in sharing the information that makes it possible for me to get something I really wanted, but thought I couldn't get. So thanks again to everyone here.

I should just move to Australia. I really would love to, but there are so many critters, on land and in the sea, that will kill you, and I've heard Aussie men, no matter the age, love nothing more than beating the snot out of each other and foreigners.

[howarmat]

any update on this VM?

[nitin]

I can checkas I have the disc, what's the query? Only region coding?

[Veronica Mars]

Originally Posted by howarmat

any update on this VM?

Sorry, thought this one was settled guys and girls.

Trust me folks, this is region free. I have region A Sony blu rays in my home and it played perfectly.

So anyone who ever digs up this thread from now on, it's 100%. Order it now if you like the movie, and will play in the region A without a region free player.

You'll never have to upgrade. I don't think it will ever look better and Woody Allen won't add anything to a US release. The DVD release had nothing but a trailer for Munich.

[howarmat]

glad to hear that

[retask]

Where can this be bought?

[nitin]

http://www.ezydvd.com.au

http://www.jbhifionline.com.au

There's probably others too.

[Anamnesis]

Originally Posted by retask

Where can this be bought?

Seriously? There is a list of online retailers on this same page!