Very few people this side of the big pond will even begin to appreciate how significant today's find was for me. Back in the mid-80s (84 to be precise), there came an Australian mini-series called Bodyline. It was about the 1932-33 Ashes series (OK.. how many people know what that is!). It was the first time that bowlers in cricket deliberately aimed for the body so as to not only make the ball very unplayable, but if need be, cause physical distress to the batter (as a pleasant side effect for the team bowling). Who else but the English could have come up with such a gentlemanly tactic. OK. This post is not about the English and their tactics. Anyways, the mini-series was simply amazing, and I vividly remember watching it every week. It starred in its lead role Hugo Weaving as the captain of the English team Douglas Jardine (that's right, Matrix fans - long before Agent Smith happened, there was still life for Hugo). I have searched for years and years and years for a VHS or DVD of this mini-series. I'm not kidding. I have been looking for the last 13 years. Finally, the DVD was released a couple of months ago in Australia, and it's now on its way to me. It is a region 4 DVD (pop quiz - what are regions?) and I will have to find a hack for my DVD player to make it region free. I can't tell you how excited I am. Yay for me.
2 comments:
Good job ... those english and their tactics. i do understand all about the ashes series, and cricket, and region 4 ... sorry, it will be a hard find to make your american dvd player a "multi-zone" player. funny, but in South africa they all come multi-zone ... i think it's illegal, but it's only africa, so who cares - right?
I've found a number of websites that claim to be able to hack existing American DVD players into multi-region ones. I have yet to try it though. Check out http://www.videohelp.com/dvdhacks.php. There are tons of sites like that.
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