The Play's the Thing...

[persiflage_1]

At shortly after midday today I unplugged the phone, turned off my laptop, then bolted my door before sitting down to three hours and three minutes of the RSC/Illuminations film of David Tennant's 'Hamlet'. Below the cut are my thoughts on it (I missed the live television broadcast, unfortunately, owing to family Christmas commitments, so this is

Comments

[dbskyler]

Oh, thanks for the review! I've been wondering if I should get the DVD, so this is really good to know. It's not out in region 1 format and I don't know if it ever will be, but I am in the process of acquiring a region-free DVD player -- once I do, I think this will be my first DVD for it!

[amilyn]

I strongly recommend the Philips/Magnavox DVD players in the $45-65 price range. If you look them up in advance for the exact model #s, most of the ones at Walmart/Target/Best Buy are hackable to multi-region and PAL/NTSC. They last reasonably well (1-2 year) and play .avi files on home-burned disks. Many also now have a USB port and will play .avi and .wmv files from memory stick as well. We've loved ours!

And example is the Philips DVP5990 series, and the hacking codes are here.

[dbskyler]

Thanks for the information!

[persiflage_1]

Well they're airing it on PBS in April, so I'm assuming the R1 DVD will be out after that...

[dbskyler]

Wait, what? It's coming to PBS? *makes note to stalk schedule of local PBS affiliate*

[persiflage_1]

LOL That is TOO funny, that I know about the PBS TV schedule and it's not even my COUNTRY never mind TV station!

[dbskyler]

Yes, how did you manage that? You're not secretly a time-and-space-traveling Time Lord, are you? :D

[persiflage_1]

Actually, it's not much of a secret - voicegrl worked it out some time ago - and blabbed! :P