Thinking of investing in some DVDs

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Thinking of investing in some DVDs

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They will have to be available from amazon.co.uk but looking for a shortish list of favourite REQs. Wanted to get La Petite Bande but looks like only available in France. Will check my top 10 first but please feel free to suggest (no guarantee of success of course). Ordering in a week's time.
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Thanks

Iv updated my wanted list here

https://www.first-loves.com/forums/v ... 7614#17330
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Well that wasn't a roaring success !! 1 out of all the 10 most wanted on everyones' lists available at amazon.co.uk !!

OK so looking to you experienced buyers out there now for best place to buy (at reasonable prices and not high post/packing charges) some of the ones that are still outstanding on top 10s, but also want to get some others like

Careful, He might hear you 1983 (Australia)
Sarah? Sarah! 1989 (Belgium)
Robinsonka 1974 Czech
Hrad z pisku 1994 Czech
La' os være 1975 Denmark
Bølle Bob og Smukke Sally 2005 Denmark
Pleure pas Germaine 2000 France
Les Filles, personne s'en méfie 2002 France
Des enfants qui s'aiment 2005 France
La Petite fille en velours bleu 1978 France
Les Bottes 2004 France
Mima 1991 (France)
Le manège de Pauline 1991 (France)
Ce Que Savait Maisie 1995 (France)
Versteckte Liebe 1987 (Germany)
Der Fluch 1988
Maries Lied: Ich war, ich weiß nicht wo 1994 (Germany)
Paulas Geheimnis 2006 (Germany)
Richter und das Mädchen 1995 (Germany)
Kinderspiele 1992 (Germany)
Unterwegs 2004 (Germany)
Ya soy mujer! 1975 (Spain)
Una Casa en las afueras 1995 (Spain)
Maskrosbarn 1989 (Sweden)
Kaninmannen 1990 (Sweden)
Smådeckarna 2002 (Sweden)
Som havets nakna vind 1968 (Sweden)
The Optimists 1973 (UK)
"Dramarama" 1983-89 (UK)
Flight of the Doves 1971 (UK)
Intimate Relations 1996 (UK)
The Borrowers 1973 (UK)
The Haunting of Helen Walker 1995 (UK)
Pin For the Butterfly 1994 (UK)
Secret Life 2007 (UK)
The Tie That Binds 1995 (US)
Something About Amelia 1984 (US)
Harmony Parker 2005 (US)
Stepsister from Planet Weird 2000 (US)
Birch Interval 1976 (US)
Prince of Central Park 1977 (US)
Szeleburdi vakáció 1987 (Hungary)
Ángeles y querubines 1972 (Mexico)
Pavee Lackeen: The Traveller Girl 2005 (Ireland)
Egi Barany 1970 (Hungary)
Iszka utazása 2007 (Hungary)
Patuvane kam Yerusalim 2003 (Bulgaria)
Orgienhaus 2002 (Switzerland)
Blue Mountain 1997 (Switzerland)
Na végre, itt a nyár! 2002 (Hungary)


Opps gone bit mad here !!!

OK so if there is a common seller for some of these let me know.
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I have recently been looking through REQs for those on DVD available in the US. I have a few already in hand or in queue. My REL of Hide and Seek the other day was the first of these, other will follow soon.

Just so noone duplicates effort, here are DVDs I have received or are on the way which are REQs or related:

Hide and Seek (1996)
Sink or Swim (1990)
Girlhood (2003)
Tom Sawyer (1973)
A Waltz Through the Hills (1988)
Careful, He Might Hear You (1983)
Heidi (1993)
Tie That Binds (1995)
A Place Called Home (2004)
Table for Five (1983)

There are a bunch more that may or may not be worth releasing, I'll add those later.

By the way, as part of my looking two weeks ago I almost ordered Pavee Lackeen (Traveller Girl) from amazon.co.uk, it was quite cheap even shipped to the US. I held off figuring I would be swamped with the above DVDs in the short term, if noone else gets it soon I'll order it anyway.

I also have a bunch of VHS things ripped (for example Old Enough) where I am just too unhappy with the quality to release yet. Part of the reason I got these DVDs is I was tired of ####ing around trying to get acceptable release quality from poor VHS copies and wanted to get something out. I also went out a month ago and bought an additional tower PC mainly to do encoding, the machine I had to use before was very slow and it took forever to get these things done.
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Sadly, buying the DVD doesn't necessarily mean good quality, especially with older movies. I found that out the hard way when I bought Laura (David Hamilton) from amazon.com (or was it videoflicks.com?). It looks like it was mastered from a VHS tape. :( Can't blame the DVD; there just isn't anything better to be had. All the clips available on the net are the same grainy quality.
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Thanks FLL - think we will be able to get a lot of these between us !
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Just stumbled upon this thread when searching for something.
FLL wrote:Just so noone duplicates effort, here are DVDs I have received or are on the way which are REQs or related:
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Careful, He Might Hear You (1983)
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...and then there is this thread with stuck download: [REQ] Careful, He Might Hear You (1983) :think
Is this movie of interest?
emuler wrote:Sadly, buying the DVD doesn't necessarily mean good quality, especially with older movies. I found that out the hard way when I bought Laura (David Hamilton) from amazon.com (or was it videoflicks.com?). It looks like it was mastered from a VHS tape. :( Can't blame the DVD; there just isn't anything better to be had. All the clips available on the net are the same grainy quality.
Hamilton blurred his movies on purpose!

:wall

And amazon.com sells lots of crap (hard-telecine, hardcoded subs, widescreen cropped to 4:3), even though proper releases of the same movies are available elsewhere.
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BizarreLoveTriangle wrote:...and then there is this thread with stuck download: [REQ] Careful, He Might Hear You (1983) :think
Is this movie of interest?
I ripped it in 2007 and decided for whatever reason (I don't remember) not to release it. I will get out that external drive and check it to see if I still feel that way (though it will probably be moot).
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Thanks :bigups

I did not intend to sound demanding... :blush
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