S2 DVD - change of UK release date

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Bad news, everyone...

Spoke to Fox on Friday, and was told the date for the Season 2 DVD boxset has been put back from September to November.     I think it's November 11th, but that's still to be confirmed.

(And Back To The Future's been put back to December as well. Dammit!)

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Somehow, I'm not surprised at all, and the scariest part is I'm not even disappointed. I mean it's FOX we're talking about, and the're infamous for this.

Did they give any reason?

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There are rumors that aslo the Italian release could be put back from October to November or even December.

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Always delays.  The Simpsons DVDs get pushed back all the time, why not Futurama?

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*Kif sigh*

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That sucks  Oh well, I taped most off the telly, I want to see them uncut with no adverts though.

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Perhaps FOX saw what a good job Paramount of doing of releasing TNG, and being FOX, decided to do the exact opposite.

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oh well, everything is always put back, they said simpsons skateboarding was coming in march.. now its september

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It's september? I thought it was July...

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Originally posted by payndz:
(And Back To The Future's been put back to December as well. Dammit!)

Well, that would put it in line with the R1 release.

Interestingly Fox appears to be releasing just the first of the films on DVD in September and (according to my source) the box set on the 2/12/02

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Sucks, but not really suprising.   

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it's not suprising but it's only been put back a month so it's not that bad

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The Voices is right.  Sure, the DVDs being held back are a sod, but we've been waiting six months for them already, so I don't think a few more weeks is gonna kill us.

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Damn posted it in the wrong thread, see this is what happens when you have ywo similar threads. Any way like I said in the other thrad you can pre order series 2 in the uk on two sites www.blackstar.co.uk  and www.dvdworld.co.uk  both saying the release is 30th September. They may be confused but at least you can pre prder it.

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I'm probably the only person who thinks this is a good thing   

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Or you can wait/undo with the preordering and do PEEL/CGEF/me a good thing by ordering at amazon then   

It's still months to go anyway

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There goes the only decent thing lined up in the next three months.

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Buy the Region 4(Australian) BTTF boxset. It also is Region 2 encoded and is out in August.

I'm getting it for £17.99 from www.cdwow.com

Bad news about the Futurama DVDs. I did expect it though, after all the months of waiting for the Simpsons.

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does neone know wither fox will relese seson 3 and 4 DVD box sets hell even VHS will do me as i dont have sky or cable or didg and must rely on channel 4 who stopped at seson 2

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Yes, all 4 seasons will (eventually) be released to DVD due to the exceptional sales of the first season.

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You forget that FOX's logic is not like our Earth logic. They'll probably discontinue the sets because of their poor sales in America.

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savefuturama: VHS set is planned for at least season two. That's what they told me anyway.

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Just out of interest, payndz, what DVD magazine do you work for (you do work for a magazine, right?). Just wondering cos I buy probably 2 DVD mags a month.
If you're not allowed to tell me/us or some unknown reason don't worry, as I said I was just curious.

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Consider yourselves lucky. Here in the US, we have no Futurama DVDs! DAMN YOU FOX!

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Originally posted by Kryten:
You forget that FOX's logic is not like our Earth logic. They'll probably discontinue the sets because of their poor sales in America.

True.  I live in Kansas and will not be purchasing it in America because I cant, so I will buy it from the UK.  I blame FOX for contributing to our economy problems.

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Buying from germany is probably cheaper right now.

Anyway, towards this thread: The Season 2 DVDs will be released Nov 7th in Germany. SO, 4 days earlier than in the UK.

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For the Europeans: www.play.com  has it for 47.50 euro's + free shipping within Europe (but it will ONLY ship to European countries)

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Ugh I thought I wouldn't be able to afford it when it came out but I've saved up so much money I could probably afford it 4 times over.

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And those who want to support this board will wait a few weeks or so till amazon has it up for sale and get it there 

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I'm going to order my second season from amazon, so I'll be waiting to see a link to it from your merchandise section.

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As an eager american with a multi-region DVD player I just ordered it from amazon.co.uk for 21.99 british pounds, or somewhere around $33 US plus shipping. 

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Damn it, you could have waited and support peel, but oh well   

Here you go: preorder the Season 2 Set at 45% off (!!). All of you I said!

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Originally posted by [-mArc-]:
Damn it, you could have waited and support peel, but oh well   

Here you go: preorder the Season 2 Set at 45% off (!!). All of you I said!

45% off? Holy shit that's good!

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45% off!! On one of the best DVD releases of the year!!

::head explodes with joy::

I'll order it, once I've gathered up a few other things (gotta watch that handling-and-shipping thing).

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Ordered it.  Wicked.

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Ha, it's funny. The sales rank went up from 233 when i first posted to 46 now!

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Hey America!  Go buy the set!  It's really cheap for us.  Not only is it a terrific deal anyway, we're outside the European economic area, so we don't pay sales tax.  With shipping it's gonna be $34.01 USD.

If you don't have a region-free player yet you should get one.  They're pretty cheap on eBay.  Or, if you already have a nice region 1 machine then get a used DVD-ROM drive to use for dedicated region 2. 
If you get one that's <= 4x and download DVD-Genie then you can make your computer region-free.  Drives that old can be had for like $20.  [Leela's Boss]NOW GET TO WORK![/Leela's Boss]

Edit: Also, make sure you use one of mArc's Amazon links so he gets some money.

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DVDs pre-ordered. 

Just one thing - is a 45% discount actually a good thing?  I know it's good for our wallets, but why is Season 2 so cheap?

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Probably because the sets cost less than $20 to produce and distribute, the rest is profit margin.  They're decreasing their profit-margin to make sales kick up, hoping they'll make more money that way.