Not really. Quote:

Any item that is still sealed can be returned for a full refund (minus shipping costs). Any opened item can only be returned if the item is defective.

I got my HD DVD of The Graduate from them in like 4 days.

they are pretty fast, it took 2 days for my band of brothers HD-DVD's to arrive

Yeah, it looks like 1408 will get here on Monday. Pretty cool.

I love them I have ordered about 8 HD-DVDs from them so far and they always fast and reliable

Best online store ever.

I got my "1408" BD from Tony last night. The menus are all in english and they are pop up. I haven't watched the disc in it's entirety yet, but from what I scanned through it looked and sounded pretty good. I was also excited to see "The Mist" listed in the trailer section. Hopefully Dutch Filmworks will release that on BD and HD DVD as well. My only problems were that my player (BDP-S300) could not play any of the special features aside from the trailers. But this may be because I have yet to upgrade to the 3.70 firmware, which I will do later today.


And for the record, Xploited is a great site and it's where I get all my imports from.

I ordered this from them on Thursday and I asked them beforehand if the disc is really region free and they wrote right back saying:

hi!
it's been tested in 3 region A blu-ray players and it plays fine. i haven't
heard definite confirmation regarding PS3's, but the disc is definitely All
Region so it should play fine.
thanks!
tony

Hopefully, I'll get it in a couple of days!

Awesome...thanks for the info!

I will know for sure about the PS3 when I get it, since that's my BR player.

As I said before, it's probably because they're in PAL. If that's the case, unless Sony decides to add PAL playback to the player (if that's even possible in a firmware update), you won't be able to watch them.

Drexl...

Dutch Filmworks framed the 576i resolution special features in a 1080i pillarboxed. That means that despite being "PAL" resolution, any player capable will be able to view these extras.

Pretty much, most extras on Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD are presented in standard definition but pillarboxed at 1080i,

From this review:

De extra’s zijn in 576i SD beeldkwaliteit en worden getoond in een 1080i HD beeldkader.

Translated by Babelfish.Altavista:

The extra's to be in 576i SD picture quality and are shown in 1080i HD picture framework.

A couple of other people have reported being able to access the special features on other US Blu-ray Players.

I don't think that's the case. I was under the assumption that there is no difference between PAL and NTSC on Blu-ray. I'm pretty sure I just have to update my player, but I could be wrong.

As for if the extras will play, I'll know for sure in a week when the update disc gets shipped to me. I tried to do it yesterday, but the BDP-S300 can't be connected to the internet and I don't have a PC to burn a disc.

What's the directors cut like? How different?

I preferred the Theatrical over the directors. Basically It's the opposite of what happened @ the end. Not sure how much spoilers you want. Maybe someone else will enlighten you.

If that's the case, then yes, they should be playable if they're upscaled to HD. However, I know that many extras on US discs are stored at 480i. Is this not NTSC?

How awesome is Tony? I ordered on the 24th, got my disc on the 28th (to California).

480i is NTSC resolution while 576i is PAL resolution. However, for HDM, this is pretty much moot for 95% of all releases.

The 480/576 resolution image is pillarboxed inside a 1080i resolution frame. This means that as long you got a player capable of displaying or downconverting 1080i then you are fine.

I'm not sure where the 95% figure comes from. Is that for European releases? Every BD I've played with standard definition extras has them in 480i, which is output as 480p by the PS3 because it deinterlaces 480i material when using HDMI. I see the projector switch to 480p for input, and if they're not anamorphic widescreen I have to manually switch to 4:3 mode to keep them from being stretched across the screen. If they were 1080i, I wouldn't have to switch modes.

All the extras play fine, they are pillarboxed in a 16 X 9 frame. No worries.

From what I remember: