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Hi all.
Received a copy of the Friends Season 7 boxset from France today and can confirm it does indeed contain the entire season on 3 double sided discs, Enlish Audio, English Menus etc and a very nice package all round for the bargain price of £36 (using a 50ff voucher)....so about £40 normally.
Just posting this as there were some doubters on the Bargain thread that was running a while back.
Oh yeah, only opened one of the discs (its a present for my mum) but they're the normal episodes (not Directors Cut versions).
dave.
Kanedaa
Can you post a link to where you got them from?. I've been holding off on those rip offs that were released over here. Sounds a nice set.
Amazon France Direct Link (http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005NZ8P/qid=1005343748/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_0_1/402-2564037-0659317)
mods - can this be forumified??? if so, do your stuff :D
dave
Thank you my good man;)
Now where my stash of unused francs??????
I just checked and www.mtv.fr are still offering a 50ff Amazon.fr voucher when you sign up for their newsletter (click through to the main site as mtv.fr takes you to a selection screen at the moment where you can choose to go to their music awards site)...its a little box in the top right of the page, you'll have to fill in a bunch of info and it takes a few days i think to get the voucher.
dave.
Got mine this morning too. One of the snapper spindles was shattered (goodness only knows how given it was the middle disc in the set!), and it will take some work to make this both anglicised and Amaray compatible. Thank heaven for the French edition. Cheaper than either UK or Australia due to not putting up with the crappy, overpriced directors cut editions.
The only grumble I would have is the packaging as when it's put on the rack the spine isn't white like the other 6 series :( still at £35 I'm still happy and :clap: to whoever originally spotted it. I was really suprised the menus are in English even though the actual packaging is in French.
Anyone spotted the R2 (UK) covers online anywhere? Would make a good starting point to design some Amaray friendly covers.
Chyna Tsui
09-11-2001, 23:27
Originally posted by kanedaa
I just checked and www.mtv.fr are still offering a 50ff Amazon.fr voucher when you sign up for their newsletter (click through to the main site as mtv.fr takes you to a selection screen at the moment where you can choose to go to their music awards site)...its a little box in the top right of the page, you'll have to fill in a bunch of info and it takes a few days i think to get the voucher.
dave.
Sorry for being a bit thick, but you couldn't explain what all the obligatory fields actually mean could you? I haven't a clue what I'm supposed to be typing in half of them. :confused:
Cheers
Babelfish Translator (http://babel.altavista.com/)
use an online translator like babelfish or wait till someone who can actually read french properly turns up to help :)
actually, just looked at it and its quite simple....obligatory fields only then...
Choose Username
Choose Password
Confirm Password
Choose a question you'll answer if you lose your password
Answer to question you chose
Sex
Surname
Forename
Date of Brith
Address
Town
Postcode
Country
tickboxes are....
do you want to receive the newsletter? what format - text/html
do you want to receive offers from partners of mtv
and the last one i can't do without a translator....so.....just running it through....
do you want to save user/pass on this workstation (so basically do you want to use cookies)
wow, my french isn't that bad :)
dave.
adamvbarker
10-11-2001, 00:15
I did this MTV thing ages ago, and never received a voucher :(
me neither :D I just posted it cos most people who did it seemed to get the voucher!
dave.
Lenny Nero
10-11-2001, 02:13
I'll wait for Australian 6 volumes so that they would match my other six seasons from there and have the extended cut episodes.
jonathan.e
10-11-2001, 07:20
Originally posted by Lenny Nero
I'll wait for Australian 6 volumes so that they would match my other six seasons from there and have the extended cut episodes.
The extended cuts are a complete waste of time and if you think about it, the more people that purchase these pointless versions the less incentive Warners have to return to a saner way of packaging the next season in the UK.
Plus the Australian versions on this occasion will cost you near enough twice as much as the French boxset. Easy decision for me. :D
Chyna Tsui
10-11-2001, 09:42
Cheers Kanedaa for my elementary French lesson :D
yep - I've been slowly getting Friends a season at a time from Oz, but will not hesitate to get these French releases, even if they are snappers rather than amarays, and in French (!), but sod Warners and their rip-off strategies......
With regards to the packaging I'd say that unless you REALLY want the Armaray look then the French packaging is just fine as the use of French language is kept to absolute bare minimum on the front and sides of the cases, its just the rear covers that are full on french...
Also I think this release bodes well for future seasons (which I believe Warner have already said will continue the Dir. Cut idea of Season 7 over here) in France maintaining the low pricepoint for the following reason (well, its my theory anyway)....
The Directors Cut episodes contain extra dialogue which for the UK release is no problem as its in English, whereas in France the episodes are obviously dubbed by Waner into French for the standard TV Episodes...so when a DVD release comes round they would have to pay the dubbing artists extra to dub the Dir.Cut episodes and the extra cost is probably just not worth it.
dave.
Originally posted by Lenny Nero
I'll wait for Australian 6 volumes so that they would match my other six seasons from there and have the extended cut episodes.
If you are waiting for the R4 to 'match' when you're looking at them on the shelf you're going to be disapointed. After 18 discs with matching spines, season 7 looks completely different. :mad:
Then there's the whole 6 instead of 3 ripoff......
Ghost Dog
11-11-2001, 20:47
Originally posted by adamvbarker
I did this MTV thing ages ago, and never received a voucher :(
I signed up a few weeks ago and the voucher arrived a few days later, maybe you should email them IN FRENCH:D .
Ordered In The Mood For Love with it by the way.
adamvbarker
11-11-2001, 22:56
maybe you should email them IN FRENCH .
Merde!! Ca fait du travail, ca, ou quoi!
:D
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