Hitchhiker's Guide DVD to be released on January 28

hitchhacker writes "It looks like The BBC series version of 'Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' is being released on DVD January 28, 2002. 'disc set contains all six episodes from the classic BBC sci-fi comedy as well 10 minutes of additional footage which was cut to acheive the 30 minute run time. Also included are a few additional features - making of, deleted scenes, interviews and more.'" CD: Word has it that this is a region 2 dvd.

Comments

Remember the movie?

[YouAreFatMan]

I remember, the first 10 minutes were the worst. The next 10 minutes, they were the worst. The next 10 minutes after that were even more horrible. After that, it went into a bit of a decline...

Re:Remember the movie?

[Roto-Rooter Man]

I remember, alright. The "10 deleted minutes" were the best ones!

Region 2 DVD???

[tswinzig]

Beg pardon? Surely you mean region 42?

(No, and don't call me Shirley.)

Re:And how do regions...

[SkulkCU]

Well, if you can't even view it outside of a single DVD region, it's not much of a guide to the galaxy, now is it?

Re:Region two?

[tunah]

Yeah, finally the region coding is effective. They've managed to stop you buying a copy to play at home (they frown on 'fair use'), and forced you to download a DVD rip from kazaa.

Re:Region two?

[forged]

Heh. For once you guys in the US are suffering the consequences of this stupid region coding which was forced into the DVD standard. Now see how it feels to be on the other side of the atlantic for a change.

It's so often us (outside the US) which suffer from region coding, since virtually everything comes on region 1 before other regions, when at all.

rotfl :->

Re:Region codes cut both ways...

[dstone]

You're reading /. and you're conforming to DVD Region Controls? Intruder! Intruder!

Available only through a PBS pledge drive

[Torgo's Pizza]

Knowing our luck, it'll only be available through a pledge drive. Sigh... wonder if it comes with a canvas tote bag?

If only Douglas Adams had lived to see...

[Anonymous Coward]

...these DVDs, including the 10 mins. of cut footage!

Also, if he'd only lived to see the leader of the free world being assaulted by a pretzel! How pathetic and bizarre, yet hilarious...it would appeal to his twisted, brilliant sense of humor.

Of course, Adams would have known that there is more to the story than meets the eye...

Babelfish Technology

[Nathdot]

Thanks to new Babelfish technology there will be no multi-language versions of the HHGTTG DVD.

Just insert the DVD and let the fish do the rest.

:)

Off-Topic: The Whale

[ewhac]

This is easily one of my most favorite of Adams' explanations on where he got an idea. This is a quote from The Original Hitchhiker Radio Scripts:

"Ah yes, the whale. Well, this came about as a result of watching an episode of a dangerously insane TV detective show called Cannon in which people got shot the whole time for incredibly little reason. They would just happen to be walking across the street, and they would simply get killed, regardless of what their own plans for the rest of the day might have been.

"I began to find the sheer arbitrariness of this rather upsetting, not just because characters were getting killed, but because nobody ever seemed to care about it one way or another. Anybody who might have cared about any of these people -- family, friends, even the postman -- was kept firmly offstage. There was never any, 'Good night sweet Prince,' or, 'She should have died hereafter,' or even, 'Look you bastard, I was meant to be playing squash with this guy tonight,' just bang, clear them out of the way, on to the next. They were merely, excuse me, Cannonfodder.

"I thought I'd have a go at this. I'd write in a character whose sole function was to be killed for the sake of a small detail in the plot, and then damn well make the audience care about it, even if none of the other characters in the story did. I suppose I must have succeeded because I received quite a number of letters saying how cruel and callous this section was -- letters I certainly would not have received if I had simply mentioned the whale's fate incidentally and passed on. I probably wouldn't have received them if it had been a human either."
-- Douglas N. Adams

Schwab

divx

[Anonymous Coward]

Region? Last time I looked, divx ;) doesn't use them...

This is terrible!!!

[toupsie]

Holy Zarqoun's Knees! You mean I won't be able to use this on my Region 1 DVD player? Belgium!