Long Way Down: Complete BBC Series
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DVD: Region Code 0Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Import, PAL, Special Edition
Running Time: 320 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-06-24
Studio: Emd Int'l
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DVD Review: Great DVD, Total Amazon Goof-Up!!
Summary: 1 Stars
After reading about "Long Way Down" in a magazine I decided to order the entire series. I found it being offered on Amazon.com, but the description stated it was not yet available. After doing more research on the internet, I discovered it would not be available in NTSC format until early October 2008. But I ordered it any way, almost immediately receiving an email from Amazon stating I would receive an email when it became available. I figured this to be in early October 2008. About 3 days after I ordered the DVD set, I get an email from Amazon on a Friday stating it had shipped and would arrive on the following Tuesday, as I am a member of Prime.
Sure enough my DVD's arrive on the following Tuesday and I could not wait to start watching the series. So I opened up the package, put in the first DVD and sat down to start enjoying the show, only to have my DVD player provide a message "Not in proper format to play on this machine, Format not recognized". I looked at the case it came in and sure enough it was in PAL format which is made for DVD players in Europe, not the United States. So I looked over the package and my receipt and noticed it said DVD's are not returnable unless unopened.
OK, so now I'm caught in a "catch-22". My first mistake was putting trust in Amazon that they knew what they were doing. I immediately went back online and noticed Amazon had corrected their original listing and changed the wording from NTSC to PAL. However they had forgotten to remove the previous customer comment of how Amazon had done exactly the same thing to him.
So here I sit with a DVD set that is totally worthless to me and no way to return it because I had opened it. Getting back online, I found a new Philips DVD player offered by Wal-Mart for $57 that would play both NTSC and PAL and play them in HD. So instead of fighting it out with Amazon, I simply went to my local Wal-Mart store, bought this DVD player which works perfectly and now I can watch the "Long Way Down" series.
My problem is this; Amazon knows what they are doing sending out DVD's that are not formatted for North American DVD players, because the original add description was changed to hide their error. Amazon did offer the same Philips DVD player (model 5990), but at a substantially higher price.
Summary: I will probably continue to buy from Amazon, but I have lost a lot of faith in them, especially knowing they had altered their advertisement without acknowledging their mistake. The DVD "Long Way Down" is absolutely fantastic, I am loving every minute of it. And I love my new DVD player by Philips. But I feel ripped off by Amazon because I had to spend upwards of an additional hundred dollars for the DVD player and a good set of wires to use it in HD.
Let my review serve to warn you to check anything you order BEFORE opening it, just in case you get caught in the same "Catch-22" I have experienced.
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