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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantAstrakan
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This post is primarily directed towards those in North America, but maybe my experience would hold true elsewhere too...

With so many Blu-ray titles being region free and with region modded Blu-ray players readily available, I thought it a good idea to alert everyone to the great deals that can be had from amazon.co.uk.

I just received my latest order from them:

$9.51 for Apocalypto
$6.87 for Beowulf & Grendel
$23.43 for The Matrix trilogy
$13.75 for Zulu (not even out in North America)

+ $10.50 in shipping for a total of $64.06 or $10.68 per movie.

And I just placed another order for Moon, which came out to $17.56 with shipping. Not quite as great of a deal, but Amazon.com has it for $24.49 plus shipping, and Amazon.ca even more, so still some decent savings.

Then there's the $22.09, with shipping, I paid for Harry Brown. A movie that doesn't even open in North America until April 30th. Price-wise not too impressive, but the novelty of seeing it so early was worth a few bucks to me.

Note: The prices you see on the site are including tax, but that's removed during checkout if you're shipping to a non-EU address. Moon, for example, is listed at $15.16 but I'm only charged $12.89.

Note #2: Two good resources to determine if a disc is region free or not are blurayregioncodes.com and the reviews at blu-ray.com.

Note #3: Xe.com is a good place to check the exchange rate of the day.
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The Harry Brown UK Blu-ray is region free?  I was thinking about ordering the DVD in the next few days, but if the blu-ray is region free, I'll definitely go that route. I scored free tickets to a screening of the film next week, so I might wait until after I've seen it.
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Apparently it's not region-free, sorry. Check here.
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The Harry Brown UK Blu-ray is region free?

dee1959jay is correct, it's not region free. I've got a modded BDP-83 so it doesn't matter to me, but for those that do not the sites listed under #2 above are usually very accurate in reporting what is and isn't region free.
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The Harry Brown UK Blu-ray is region free?

dee1959jay is correct, it's not region free. I've got a modded BDP-83 so it doesn't matter to me, but for those that do not the sites listed under #2 above are usually very accurate in reporting what is and isn't region free.


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This post is primarily directed towards those in North America, but maybe my experience would hold true elsewhere too...

Note: The prices you see on the site are including tax, but that's removed during checkout if you're shipping to a non-British address. Moon, for example, is listed at $15.16 but I'm only charged $12.89.


For users elsewhere: tax is removed if you're shipping to a non-European (EC) address.

But yes, Amazon UK is a great resource, and surprisingly sometimes has US movies or TV-series that are not yet on DVD in the US. Same goes for Amazon France and Amazon Germany by the way. Most of time though, UK releases lag a few weeks behind US releases.
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For users elsewhere: tax is removed if you're shipping to a non-European (EC) address.

Oh! I was misinformed. Thanks for pointing that out, I have corrected my post.
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The Harry Brown UK Blu-ray is region free?

dee1959jay is correct, it's not region free. I've got a modded BDP-83 so it doesn't matter to me, but for those that do not the sites listed under #2 above are usually very accurate in reporting what is and isn't region free.


Did you use the hardware or firmware hack?

A hardware mod. It was very simple and didn't involve any soldering. Anyone who's ever installed hardware inside a computer can do it no problem, and if you haven't there's very clear instructions included with the mod.

Click here for links to those instructions, and lots more information about making either the BDP-83 or the BDP-80 region free for both Blu-rays and DVDs.
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