Amazon, DVDs and lies

Oh, I hate it when this happens. Ten quid Amazon voucher (if you can call a code sent by email a voucher) to spend. Check Amazon. Ah, a DVD I quite fancy. It's The Mission, providing hours of entertainment of a comedy G*** / quite good music variety. A pair of old videos re-released on shiny DVD format, with nice surround sound. DTS5.1, no less.

Order DVD on Thursday evening. Arrives this morning. That's good. Turn up all the speakers, put DVD in to play. Oh. It's the same problem I had with the Pixies live DVD. It's all coming out in black and white. Despite claiming to be PAL format on Amazon, it's quite obviously not. Hence the black and white thing. It does claim to be region 0, which probably should have made me suspicious. It will now. Just means that you can play it on any DVD player anywhere, and that includes NTSC regions. So it's obviously in that format.

I really need a new TV. One that can cope with it. Still, it'll play on the PC, I guess. In colour, but not with surround sound. Then again, is that really much of a problem? All those sounds surrounding you are good for films, but not really necessary for music. Don't need a guitar wandering off round the back scaring the cats.

Still, the DVD is good. If you like The Mission. Or other dodgy 80s G***s. A 60 minute "documentary" thing, and a nice 12 track live experience. And a special "jukebox" feature that lets you rearrange the order of the 12 live tracks. Or play the same song 12 times in a row. Useful, I'm sure.