Ebay challenges my bank balance - (the woe of having nothing to trade)

[chrissie]

As well as the interesting-sounding Confidential Report DVD referenced on General forum, ebay teases me thus:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws....01&rd=1

But this is just about trades, right? If you have nothing, your luck is out? Or is there anyone out there with sympathy for such dreadful plight? I'm always willing to cover people's expenses, but the above's frankly a little... rich... for a bootleg DVD-R that may or may not corrupt to hell after a year or two.

I've also cultivated an obsession for the unrestored Othello print. I ordered a copy of the French version (they're everywhere @ v. low prices), but somehow, life is incomplete without the Eng lang version...

[Knowles Noel Shane]

That Filming Othello DVD is probably someone's home DVD-R copy. I haven't heard of a proper release version of it, though one might exist. The movie is a treat if you can find it, but it's no F for Fake. Check out the home page here for the link to the transcript of the film.

The unrestored Othello is great. It was available on laserdisc years ago (thanks again to Jaime for providing me with a VHS copy.) It had great sound and had no need of being restored. As far as I can deduce, it's due to strange legal reasons that the only version of it marketable in America is the distribution print with wretched sound, which actually did need to be restored. I have assumed that the unrestored version was still available in Europe, but maybe not.

Anyway, trades only in this section? Not always. Not if you're persuasive and pleading enough, I guess. But I think most of the posters out here are from the continental US and all have Region 1 equipment and few if any would be able to provide you with something to function on a PAL tv set. I don't know whether all DVD-Rs work on all computers, either. Maybe not.

Anybody know if DVD-Rs burned on an American computer will play on an English one?

[chrissie]

They will play if you have a DVD-ROM that actually works. Mine is caput, but I'm intending to get a drive that writes at some point. (A naughty bit of freeware called DVD Region Killer helps, too...)

Region and screen format isn't an issue. TV and DVD player are NTSC compatible and the player is set to Region 0. Essential, really: I'm waiting for a Criterion F for Fake (to replace the execrable Brazilian thing I wasted money on last year).

[Sir Bygber Brown]

I've got a few American-burnt DVDs sent to me by a member of this board, out of the goodness of their hearts - a restored Macbeth DVD, Ambersons special edition DVD, Othello DVD including Return to Glennescaul and Filming Othello. I'm just boasting really - i was so pleased about it and grateful for it. So, I have PAL system and the DVDs worked on my computer and on my DVD player. If that helps.