{"id":596,"date":"2008-08-14T11:50:45","date_gmt":"2008-08-14T00:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=596"},"modified":"2010-02-11T21:14:35","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T10:14:35","slug":"no-country-for-old-men-whoops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=596","title":{"rendered":"<em>No Country for Old Men<\/em> &#8230; whoops!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.hifi-writer.com\/blog\/graphics\/ncfom.jpg\" alt=\"Back of 'No Country for Old Men' Blu-ray\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"3\" align=\"right\" \/>Look at the top left hand corner of the graphic. What do you see? Would that be an &#8216;A&#8217; in a hexagon? That&#8217;s a region code marking for Blu-ray discs.<\/p>\n<p>Look at the two primarily red boxes on that graphic. What do you see? They are the Australian <a href=\"http:\/\/www.classification.gov.au\/special.html\">Film Classification ratings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Cognitive dissonance!<\/p>\n<p>Australia is Region B for Blu-ray. The Region A marking on the back of the box is for North America.<\/p>\n<p>This graphic is a scan of a portion of the back of the Australian Blu-ray release of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0477348\/\">No Country for Old Men<\/a><\/em>. As it happens, the Australian release is region free. If you are wandering through an Australian shop that sells Blu-ray discs and stumble across this one, do yourself a favour. Ignore the Region A marking, and buy it. It will work and it will be worth it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE<\/strong> <span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">(Friday, 15 August 2008, 1:35 pm)<\/span>: For some unknown reason I had the title of the movie in the heading to this post, and only there, as <em>Old Country for Old Men<\/em>. Now corrected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look at the top left hand corner of the graphic. What do you see? Would that be an &#8216;A&#8217; in a hexagon? That&#8217;s a region code marking for Blu-ray discs. Look at the two primarily red boxes on that graphic. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=596\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":597,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions\/597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}