Fraggle Rock on DVD - Region 2

[Warrick]

Hey Guys,

Fraggle Rock is coming to Region 2 DVD (Europe).

It will be released in France on September 15th.

It will also have the Original English soundrtrack !

Im not sure how they will work out the British Matt segments tho, Or the British 'Captain' segments.

Extras -

• Bloopers
• Interviews
• Making of Fraggle Rock
• English/French Audio

It will be 30 episodes this year, And another 30 next year and then the remainder the year after.

They will be produced by LCJ Editions, a French DVD copmpany.

They also say that it is an Eternal Edition.

See ya
Warrick

[Jackie]

What about in AMERICA!!!!!! eeeeek!

[Luke]

Great news. Did the French actually have original Captain/Matt segments or did they just dub over the English ones ? Thats the only way i can see them pulling this off with English audio without resorting to subtitles.

[Warrick]

Im not sure abut the Matt segments, But they did have French 'Doc' segments.

I should think those parts would have subtitles, Or you get an option to watch the whole British episode with the Captain and UK Matt segments ?

See ya

[beaker]

Hey Warrick!

This is the news I've been waiting for! Unlike most people, I dont care at all about an american release, as I have a master dvd player (ie: can play every single media format on a shiny disc) that has region free. Folks, this might be it as far as FR dvds, so get your region free dvd player (usually the off or generic brands, which are cheaper anyways)

[Drtooth]

I just think that it's stupid and confusing that they have different formats for these things. Europe has PAL, we have NcST PH. D. E I E I O or something. That drives me nuts to no extent. If so, we'd be able to grab some British Fraggles DVDs and play'em here with-out expensive equiptment or those pricey conversions.

And besides, don't DVD's have different Language soundtracks anyway?

[beaker]

>>>I just think that it's stupid and confusing that they have different formats for these things. Europe has PAL, we have NcST PH. D. E I E I O or something. That drives me nuts to no extent<<<

thats true, but with a dvd player like daewoo or any number of off brand names, theres no such thing as regions or PAL or ntsc or a difference between vcd-vcdr-cdr. Heck, Im hoping fans start ripping specials like the Weezer half hour, Swamp Years, and I LOVE THE MUPPETS BBC special to cdr/vcd rips!

[Luke]

Hey Corey

I know you can get region free players in the states but how the heck do you get a PAL signal on a NTSC TV set - they are totally different display formats ? I take it you must have some kind of PAL compatible TV set as well ?

[HombreDeSilla]

>how the heck do you get a PAL signal on a NTSC TV set - they >are totally different display formats

Dunno about Corey but I know the codefree player I have has the option to translate the Pal signal to NTSC or vice versa. PAL video tends to 'move' a bit oddly on my NTSC tv but it's better than nothing.

-Steve

[scarecroe]

The region-free/all-region DVD players that work on NTSC TVs have a converter included in the unit that converst the PAL signal to NTSC. I would think it's just as easy to get one that will convert an NTSC signal to PAL.

It's more difficult with VHS. NTSC to PAL converters are relatively cheap, but getting a unit to convert a PAL signal to NTSC is another story. Those start in at about $400.

[Janice & Mokey's Man]

WOO-HOOOOOOOOOO!!! The fraggles are comin', the fraggles are comin'!!

*has no idea if his DVD player is "region free" or whatever, but sure hopes so*

[beaker]

>>>I know you can get region free players in the states but how the heck do you get a PAL signal on a NTSC TV set - they are totally different display formats ? I take it you must have some kind of PAL compatible TV set as well ?<<<

Well heres the thing. I used to have an expensive dvd player. Then my mom gave me some very generic dvd player she won,
and once i showed what it could do...i took back my other dvd player and now all my friends have generic 'master' dvds. These things are incredible: dvd all region even pal, vcd/vcd-cdr/svcd,
photo cds, cds/cdr music, mp3s...everything except console video games!

the signal? I dont know, but when i pop in my uk playstation region europe dvd, it plays FINE! I even got a huge flatscreen, and monster video/audio cables...so everybody over to cory's house for MTM and MFC! hehe I just want people to start converting never gonna be available to dvds tv specials to vcd! hehe. Anyways, I know people in europe that have these too, so they can play ntsc on their tvs.

Now PAL vcr? nope, thats wayyyyy to expensive to convert, as man i wish i could get a hold of the US banned song of the south and some other disney oddities.

So Luke/War/Jog/etc...what JHC dvds are there in europe that arent here? I heard storyteller and soon FR, but what else?

[beaker]

BTW, i know luke and some others said the hoobs wasnt the greatest show, but im still curious (i still havent even seen big bag) i was wondering why the hoobs even tho scheduled, never came to us cable? also, is bear in the big blue house in europe, or just US? If its one or the other, Im SO glad we get Bear. I love that show. I have idea thats would expand the format and make it cooler, but oh well. The Hoobs isnt like a bunch of muppets behind an anything muppet 'wall' ala sesame is it?

[Warrick]

We also have Of Muppets and Men on DVD.

And something about Season Box Sets of The Muppet Show in France around the same time as the Fraggle Rock releases.

See ya

[Animal]

Hey Warrick,

GREAT news! But where did you get that info???
Any pages where I can read more about this and the season box-sets of Muppet Show you´re talking about???

*Hans*