Planet Earth: $30 extra for stupid Americans?
 

Now that I have my new Hi-Def goodness on order I went content shopping...

Tops on my list is the series "Planet Earth" from Discovery which I placed on pre-order from the Discovery Store.

Then I find out that it's really a BBC series and that the version aired in the US was edited for time and content aledgedly to remove some of the more graphic kills.

So I check with Amazon and they have the uncut/origional BBC version in HD for $30 less than Discovery.

When I called to cancel my order with Discovery the nice lady did not know if their version was edited or not but she did know they changed narrators from David Attenborough to Sigourney Weaver in order to "make it easier for American audiences". :rolleyes:

So now I have the unedited version coming to me courtesy of the BBC and Amazon plus I saved $30 to boot.

Did you check region information as well as PAL vs. NTSC format?

OMG, I'd *much* rather have David Attenborough.... I hated the narration!

Wow. David Attenborough has been doing nature shows that have been broadcast in the US for ages. Why quit now?? That sucks, wish I hadn't read that...

GD: I wonder the same, it is Region 1.

I thought PAL vs. NTSC was only a VHS issue?

I'm not particularly knowledgeable, but I've seen reference to "PAL DVDs".

But if it is region 1, then it shouldn't be an issue.

Wow, I didn't see the series, and hoped to rent it. But I'm not going to be doing that now that I know it's been edited ... and the narrator switched from venerable nature narrator Attenborough. How frelling lame!

See what you've done, Moonliner?! We're all messed up now. You should have left well enough alone :p

Wow. Apparently I can do evil even when I'm specifically trying to do good.

PAL and NTSC are for analog brodcasts. PAL has more lines in the TV than a NTSC one does - which is why they're incompatiable. I knew that TV Broadcasting class would come in handy someday.

HDTV seems to be it's own standard. At least from what I can figure out from wikipidiea.