Nope. Australia is R4.

I placed an order for Dante's Peak, Sahara, Serenity, and the Good Shepherd yesterday.

Still pending....

David

I went ahead and ordered BSG S1 from ezdvd as a blind buy. I like the packaging on that version anyway.

They have a good price on Star Trek TOS too ($68 AUS) but I'm not sure I like Star Trek TOS enough to spend $70+ on a season of it.

Then the star trek set is not that great a deal because you miss out on most of the extras which are on the sd/dvd side and it would be hard to resale it in the U.S. if you ever decide to get rid of it.

I'd assume that sd side of the star trek set would be r4, but just as a point of interest my kiss kiss bang bang combo i got from ezydvd is region 1 on the sd side.

Well, all I know is that Australia is R4 (which answered the original question about whether it's R2 or not). I do NOT know if the SD flip side of the Trek TOS S1 HD set is R4 or R1. Common sense would seem to support R4 as that answer too, but I personally do not know for certain.

Weekly ezyDVD Update
 

The site is back up (must've been too much partying for ANZAC day), and BSG is available again. If you don't have it and want it, this is too good a price to pass up IMO. Some other titles are back in stock, while some are gone (maybe for good). The greenback improved against the rooback, so things are marginally less expensive exchange-wise, too.

http://www.ezydvd.com.au/main/promo_hd.zml

Set w/flat rate shipping
Battlestar Galactica S1 AU$31.66 + AU$9.50 s/h = US$38.40
Harry Potter Years 1-5 AU$31.66 + AU$20 s/h = US$48.30
Star Trek TOS S1 (HD/SD Combo) AU$63.48 + AU$20 s/h = US$78.00

Individual Titles (see shipping below)

AU$4.47 = US$4.20
<strike>Harry Potter 3</strike>
Harry Potter 5

AU$5.37 = US$5.10
Knocked Up
Red Dragon

AU$6.29 = US$5.90
Born on the Fourth of July
Four Brothers
Frighteners
Good Shepherd
Holiday
Mighty Heart
Mr. Bean's Holiday
Out Of Sight
Ray

AU$7.20 = US$6.80
Daylight
Dragonheart
Game
Harry Potter 1, 2, 4
Italian Job
Jarhead
King Kong
Land Of The Dead
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
Nacho Libre
Sahara
Skeleton Key
Spartacus
Thing (John Carpenter's)

AU$8.11 = US$7.60
2 Fast 2 Furious
American Werewolf in London
Backdraft
Big Lebowski
Dante's Peak
<strike>Deer Hunter</strike>
Hulk
<strike>I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry</strike>
Miami Vice
Shaun Of The Dead
<strike>Under Seige</strike>
Waterworld

AU$9.02 = US$8.50
40 Year Old Virgin
Bourne Identity
Bourne Supremacy
Casino
<strike>Chronicles of Riddick</strike>
Doom
<strike>Hot Fuzz</strike>
Leaving Las Vegas
Mummy Returns
Pitch Black
Serenity
<strike>Superman</strike>
<strike>Superman II: Richard Donner Cut</strike>

International Shipping
1 = AU$5.50 = US$5.20
2 = AU$9.50 = US$8.90
3 = AU$18.00 = US$16.90 (includes insurance and registration)
4 = AU$21.00 = US$19.70 (includes insurance and registration)
5 = AU$25.00 = US$23.40 (includes insurance and registration)

The prices shown in AU$ are adjusted to remove GST. The conversion into US$ is based on yesterday's exchange rate (AU$1.00 = US$0.9338), and are rounded up to the next highest US$0.10.

I picked up some HD-DVD's at Target where they had been red tagged and placed on the clearance endcaps. $6-$4.34 each. They were stuck in with the clearance video games at a couple of stores I went to. Decent titles. Of course this is store by store and each store is different. Might be worth looking for if you are near Target. Hopefully some of you will score some.

I am sure this was asked before, but I probably wasn't paying attention cause I wasn't planning on ordering anything. However now that I am, is there some Visa extra charge (converting) when you order from a place like ezyDVD?

I used a credit card funded Paypal payment for Into the Wild and there was no additional conversion charge. That worked out to less than $11 shipped and I was very happy with the purchase. I would buy again from EZdvd without hesitation.

Be aware that the price in US dollars will fluctuate from day to day as the AUD to USD conversion rates dance around.

Bob

Which HD DVD titles were you able to find clearanced out at Target? (Curious :-)

Woo, my $26 BBC Planet Earth set from PBS came in today.

Nice! I'm hoping mine will show up soon. I placed an order a bit later in the day but didn't get the BO email. -pray-

Still pending, except Serenity is OOS. How long should I wait before pinging them by e-mail?

David

star trek sd side
 

Has anyone gotten the star trek set so that you are able to confirm the region of the SD side?

I guess this thread has turned into a Canadian HD-DVD sale thread with nothing else going elswhere. Will just have to wait for Deep Discount semi-annual sale, I guess, to grab some discounts locally.

This is the age of the internet, everything is local!

Don't know what to tell you. I presume that as long as your pending order page shows the titles as "In stock now - Available to ship" that you'll have no problem... that typically indicates that they've got one with your name on it. When will they actually ship? Your guess is as good as mine.

BTW - BSG S1 HD is OOS again.

A 7 word sentence with 5 acronyms.... cool! :up:

(The Harry Potters are ALL gone, too.)
(Heck, a LOT of stuff is gone... time for a mid-week update I guess)

Stuff is disappearing left and right, including an (apparently) small stock of BSG S1. Here's a midweek update (I'm not going to bother updating the exchange rate info - it's only been 48 hours since the last one).

Changes in RED

http://www.ezydvd.com.au/main/promo_hd.zml

Set w/flat rate shipping
<strike>Battlestar Galactica S1 AU$31.66 + AU$9.50 s/h = US$38.40</strike>
<strike>Harry Potter Years 1-5 AU$31.66 + AU$20 s/h = US$48.30</strike>
Star Trek TOS S1 (HD/SD Combo) AU$63.48 + AU$20 s/h = US$78.00

Individual Titles (see shipping below)

AU$4.47 = US$4.20
<strike>Harry Potter 5</strike>

AU$5.37 = US$5.10
Knocked Up
Red Dragon

AU$6.29 = US$5.90
Born on the Fourth of July
Four Brothers
Frighteners
Good Shepherd
Holiday
Mighty Heart
Mr. Bean's Holiday
Out Of Sight
Ray

AU$7.20 = US$6.80
Daylight
Dragonheart
Game
<strike>Harry Potter 1, 2, 4</strike>
Italian Job
Jarhead
King Kong
Land Of The Dead
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
Nacho Libre
Sahara
Skeleton Key
Spartacus
Thing (John Carpenter's)

AU$8.11 = US$7.60
2 Fast 2 Furious
American Werewolf in London
Backdraft
Big Lebowski
Dante's Peak
Hulk
I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry
Miami Vice
Shaun Of The Dead
Waterworld

AU$9.02 = US$8.50
<strike>40 Year Old Virgin</strike>
Bourne Identity
Bourne Supremacy
Casino
<strike>Doom</strike>
Leaving Las Vegas
Mummy Returns
<strike>Pitch Black</strike>
<strike>Serenity</strike>

International Shipping
1 = AU$5.50 = US$5.20
2 = AU$9.50 = US$8.90
3 = AU$18.00 = US$16.90 (includes insurance and registration)
4 = AU$21.00 = US$19.70 (includes insurance and registration)
5 = AU$25.00 = US$23.40 (includes insurance and registration)

The prices shown in AU$ are adjusted to remove GST. The conversion into US$ is based on yesterday's exchange rate (AU$1.00 = US$0.9338), and are rounded up to the next highest US$0.10.

I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry just went out of stock too.

Thank God.

Don't know about the rest of you military folks but I was in a local PX yesterday (Belvoir) and still saw quite a few HD titles (a lot more than when I was in Korea). Came home, checked the prices on Amazon for a few of them - pretty good comparably - but I'll verify today when I go by to pick them up.

http://www.dvd.co.uk/images/landingp...for10HDDVD.gif
DVD.uk has just dropped their clearance price from GBP12 to GBP10 for 2 HD-DVDs. There's a GBP1.00 shipping surcharge per DVD for international shipping, so the total cost is 2 for GBP12, or approximately $11.85 per title, shipped, provided you buy 2.

Here's the link: http://www.dvd.co.uk/landingpage_691.htm

Here's the current list:
2 Fast 2 Furious
40 Year Old Virgin
American Gangster
American Werewolf In London
Apollo 13
Atonement
Backdraft
Big Lebowski
Born On The Fourth Of July
Bourne Supremacy, The
Carlitos Way
Casino
Children Of Men
Dantes Peak
Daylight
Doom
Dragonheart
Evan Almighty
Fast And The Furious - Tokyo Drift, The (HD DVD)
Fearless
Frighteners
Game
Good Shepherd
Hitcher
Holiday
Hulk
I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry
Inside Man
Mercury Rising
Mr Beans Holiday
Out Of Sight
Pitch Black
Red Dragon
Scorpion King
Serenity
Shaun Of The Dead
Skeleton Key
Spartacus
Thing
Tremors
Waterworld

Thanks kenbuzz
 

Ordered Pitch Black and Atonement to be shipped to California. 12.00 GBP total=23.67 USD plus whatever my Visa charges for the transaction. Not bad.