So how are we supposed to get ahold of this film on DVD/BR? Amazon doesn't have it. I searched the official site, and its store doesn't mention DVDs either.
Iron Sky.
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It's been available for preorder for weeks. Last Saturday the first units started shipping (delivery from the UK to Germany took until today because of the holiday this Monday).
Would've been even nicer if the damn thing actually worked.
BTW: That second disc contains a program that spits out a heavily DRM-infested video file that requires you to install an additional codec and limits playback to a handful of programs (looks even worse than most Youtube videos and gets slightly out of sync after a short while).
^^ Amazon UK has it but it's not even listed for Amazon US
Unfortunately, that's PAL encoded, so I can't use it.
I don't think PAL applies to HD in case of the BR but region coding would though some BRs are region-free (not sure about Iron Sky).
I thought even those banana republics on the other side of the pond had finally discovered multinorm hardware by now?
^ damn 
the pirate bought the movie.
the pirate used some free software to strip the storebought disk or all it's region restricting bullshit and then uploaded it onto the internet.
Regions are to control licensing for different parts of the world, it's not to stop piracy. there is no single distributor, or at least there wasn't or shouldn't have been when this started, that can handle the entire world, but by carving the world up and selling slightly different dvd players in 5 parts of the world, the dvd makers can sell 5 distinct distribution contracts without concern of bleed over and turf wars.
In theory.
I used to import DVDs, but then Royal Mail decided that they were missing out on a sweet deal and introduced an £8 'handling' fee on anything and everything over £18 that wasn't flagged as a gift. Now they've reduced the limit down again to £15. Hence, if I pay £20 to bring a DVD in from outside the EU then I'll pay out at least half that again to Royal Mail and HMRC.
They're also closing the Channel Islands tax-avoidance loophole this year as well.
They're also closing the Channel Islands tax-avoidance loophole this year as well.
Multi region players are quite common in the US now, I bought one years ago from Wal-Mart and use it quite often to view my Life on Mars/Ashes to Ashes DVD's and the earlier seasons of the new Doctor Who that I used to import from the UK.
Good to know, but they're two separate things. Multinorm devices don't care whether the video is PAL, or NTSC, since they're able to convert between the formats to always provide the required output (some devices even support SECAM as well).
Oh sorry, as I reread my post, I see I misspoke. The player I have does play PAL as the DVD's I got from the UK are PAL, my bad. It actually didn't do it straight out of the box. There was a code that had to be entered into the remote to activate the ability to do this, but it was easy to find and easy to do. I think now they do have the ability to do that straight out of the box, I've had mine for a few years now.
Retrofuturism using the tech of back then. Snickers!
Sky Cap and Suckerpunch were great.
Sky Cap and Suckerpunch were great.
I wish I could purchase DRM-free digital version of movies, to be able to buy an .mp4 like you can an .mp3. It's definitely convenient, unfortunately I've only experienced that downloading them through shady means.
I buy most, if not all, of my stuff from iTunes but unfortunately they don't have Iron Sky. 
(Not the film, but they do have the soundtrack.)
(Not the film, but they do have the soundtrack.)
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