I see that Nightmare on Elm Street has been released on Blu-Ray in Canada, I know with Region 1 DVDs (that includes Canada) they will work on any Region 1 DVD player, does that work with Blu-Rays also?

Yes.

Well hurray! That's all I can say...

Thank you

You'll be able to play the extras too, since they use NTSC for SD material. (Some European discs have PAL extras.)

Nightmare on Elm St Blu-ray has no extras.

You will need to get a permit from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, though, and they can be pretty strict aboot these things.

Not to be offensive, but I find questions like this just too funny....stupid funny not ha-ha funny.

I don't think it's stupid. Blu-ray has more restrictions on it than DVD does.

Yep, I have the NOES BD and it plays fine.

Actually, this is incorrect. The region-limitations are much more severe on DVD.
Blu-ray is broken down into much larger regions.

Pro-B

Not funny queer?

I'm aware of the region limitations on DVD. It's just flat out easier to watch region locked DVDs, even if you can't on your player, you can still play them on your computer. I like to think this is only because the format is still relatively new.

BD has three regions instead of... a lot.


The whole region thing is a load of BS, if you ask me. It's done to increase profits but the end result is discs aren't always released in all regions. So people who may want a certain disc can't get it because it's not available in their region. What's the point?

No, cause that would be just so silly!

The only thing different about Canadian DVDs and BDs is that they have all that bilingual bullshit all over the packaging, but that's all.

In other words for your DVD/BD needs, buy American.

Agreed.

If I had a Blu-ray drive on my computer I would be perfectly able to play Blu-ray discs from other regions on it, thanks to AnyDVD. And I expect we'll start seeing more reasonably-priced region-free Blu-ray players in the next couple of years. I'm especially looking forward to seeing what Oppo's Blu-ray player can do.

Another advantage to Blu-ray is there is no NTSC/PAL problem. You only have to worry about region coding.

I wouldn't say that - at least with DVDs.

Many times the difference in DVDs is more than just packaging. There are plently of releases in which they had to squeeze on a french audio track, thus requiring the video quality to be sacrificed to make up the extra space needed.

I have no idea about BD releases in Canada. I'd be interested to find out if there are any BDs that are different with regards to quality.

The point is that because of sub-licensing non-US markets are capable of producing and encouraging domestic releases. Think of them as larger versions of Criterion - they release locally blockbusters that supplant less appealing productions. In the eyes of the end-consumer, especially US-based, region-coding may look anti-consumer (regardless of what the definition is meant to lump together) but in reality there are actually more positives about it than there are negatives.

Pro-B

I've only been hit with that problem with Alliance Atlantis releases such as "CSI: NY season 2" where the commentaries were removed for English and French stereo tracks, and "CSI: Miami Season 4" where English and French stereo tracks were squeezed onto the discs with the 5.1 and commentaries resulting in subpar video.

I just avoid anything from that company now.

Releases like Sony's "Spider-Man 3" got it right, by simply swapping the Spanish track for a French one, preserving the quality.

Actually the nightmare blu set did have extras, and a couple exclusive ones too.

You've just bumped a thread from seven years ago. The disc referenced at the time was a Canadian release with no bonus features, not the much later American box set.

Nighthawk?

You were such a crap hero too....




seriously though.... is this a spam or no spam bump?