The Walking Dead UNCUT on Region B Blu Ray FOR THE FIRST TIME FINALLY!

[Rick Grimes]

Hey all you TWD fans out there outside of North America. Here is some great news: https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-W...Blu-ray/71528/ The Walking Dead Season 1 is finally available uncut on a Region B release! Why now finally? FSK, the German ratings board, has finally given an 18+ rating to the uncut version of Season 1, that Anchor Bay released in North America and played on AMC in the US.

Thank you very much German distributors WVG Medien. I might just purchase your copy (despite the possibility of a German language menu and no English subs), just so I can watch The Walking Dead Season 1 UNCUT on my PS3. That would be cool. Besides, navigating the French menu's for the Caprica Blu Ray release was very easy.

Maybe now, the first step has been taken, which will lead towards a possible uncut UK/English version from Entertainment One.

Surprised you've been watching a sanitised version! Censored by the distributor, for no good reason except being cheap... (Despite my many posts on the subject trying to inform the public for those who are unaware).

Well, here is the story how TWD S1 had cuts for gore/explicit violence: The DVD/BRD distributor for the rest of the world, for a long time, have been saying in communication with frustrated fans of TWD, that they would not release another transfer, that was uncut, which includes the 40 seconds of cuts that were made to please the German censors (otherwise Germany would ban The Walking Dead Season 1). Check out the cuts at this link: WARNING: Contains Spoilers for those who have not watched TWD S1 Ep4 onwards. http://www.movie-censorship.com/series.php?TID=5087

Long story short: Entertainment One decided to make only one transfer, that contained the cuts for the German market, despite every other Region B market having no censorship issues with The Walking Dead Season 1! Why could they have not made either two transfers OR edit the scenes digitally for the German version... Which is probably what they did do anyway!
Therefore, people purchasing a copy of TWD S1 on DVD and Blu Ray outside North America have been watching a censored version of the show... With approximately 40 seconds of gore cut from the footage.

I have gone to great lengths to purchase a Region A capable Blu Ray player and then a US Region A player, so that I can enjoy TWD S1, the way it was meant to be viewed. Now I simply buy the Anchor Bay releases of TWD from the US. Thank you Anchor Bay.

However, I will probably purchase the German Region B copy, so I can lend it to my friends here in Australia and chuck it in and watch it on my PS3.
I fear that the Uncut German version of TWD S1 may be all we get here in Region B land.

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE Hopscotch Entertainment and E One... Please release make a UK/Australia UNCUT The Walking Dead Region B release.
Do what is right for the fans, hardcore or otherwise.

How can this be: The most watched cable series ever is being viewed censored outside the US by fans watching on home video! It is a travesty. An overzealous censorship board and a cheap distributor has led to censorship of a critically acclaimed TV show, that alongside The Sopranos and other cable shows of high acclaim is a work of art... That has been cut.
Write to EOne, email them, show them that the fans would like an UNCUT version of Frank Darabont's seminal work. The Walking Dead Season 1...

This is Rick Grimes, signing off. (Cue theme music).

[Rick Grimes]

Unedited Google Translate taken from Amazon DE (German Amazon) about the availability of the UNCUT release for the first time. I have bolded the part that may mean no UNCUT release from EOne for UK/Australia etc. OR it may be just the true meaning is lost in translation? https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-W...Blu-ray/71528/

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Opinion of WVG Medien GmbH release of The Walking Dead - The Complete First Season (Special Uncut Version)

Entertainment One released on 31.5.2013 on the WVG Medien GmbH, the uncut version of The Walking Dead - The Complete First Season in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. For these three countries are the only countries in Europe where the Uncut Season could be made available to the end user.

Why the uncut version comes only now?

At that time, November 2011, a publication of the uncut version of The Walking Dead was - The Complete First Season due to legal as well as technical problems are not possible and also not provided for a later date.

Of the Licensor (AMC / FOX) material provided was at that time the only available, for all of Europe.
On the average, does not include Entertainment One, WVG still had influence at that time. It only had the opportunity to publish cut the first season. The alternative would have been a non-publication.

Even after 1.5 years after the publication of the first season, the demand has not diminished with respect to an UNCUT version, Entertainment One and have WVG after a tough battle solve the legal and technical problems and so the publication can enforce the uncut version, which ultimately ago due to the extreme demand of the fans based.

We are very sorry if the buyer Cut version disadvantaged or feel deceived. This has been One intention of entertainment and WVG at any time.

A replacement or discount promotion, it will not happen. The cut version and the Uncut version should be considered as two different products, which were published in completely different times and under different circumstances.

[navydavey]

I bought the region 1 dvd versions or series 1 and 2 because i refuse to support cut releases of movies and series'- I dont have access to a multi region blu ray player.
I refused to buy the uk blu ray cause of the cut status and am still hopefull there will be an uncut release here at some point. Then ill buy the other series on blu ray too.
Very tempted by the german release but ill wait a while first to see if it has english subs and if the uk pull their finger out.