AC/DC Backtracks in PAL?

Can someone please tell me if the AC/DC Backtracks CD/DVD set is available in PAL format?  And if so, where/which country I can buy it in PAL format?

All I can find locally is NTSC unfortunately.

Yes...and in Ireland!!!

Actually, I have no idea....This thread just looked sad with no replies

Yeah, good on ya HotRod, thanks for your input mate.  Waste time much?

Can anybody please verify if the AC/DC Backtracks CD/DVD set is available in PAL format?

Checking the listing at Amazon.co.uk - where you'd expect to be buying a PAL disc - one of the comments mentions that the DVD is NTSC.

Then again, this review is typed in all caps, so the reviewer is probably a retard.

Region coding is not related to whether the DVD is encoded for PAL or NTSC compatibility.

Edit - on checking the link, it does say it is PAL.

Orinoco_Womble said:

Yeah, good on ya HotRod, thanks for your input mate.  Waste time much?

F***ing womble!!

I thought you meant that because the disc was Region 4, it must be PAL - which is not necessarily the case. On checking the link however it does state that the DVD is in PAL format.

Hi guys,

Thanks for the suggestions.  To answer some of the questions; I live in New Zealand (land of the Hobbits etc), which is a PAL country.  Almost every other DVD release here is derived usually from the UK PAL masters as far as I can tell, but in this instance all of the backtracks sets are NTSC.  No one locally seems to have it available in PAL.  Most of the young sales people in video/CD stores seemingly didn’t even know there were different video formats.  All DVD players sold in NZ are stickered as region 4, but will play anything straight out of the box without any problems.  NZ has zero restrictions on parallel imports and our DVD players are open region and will play anything.  The ‘Family Jewels’ set is definitely available in PAL as are all of the other AC/DC releases that I own.

Frink: Yep, I have already had a really good look around the internet for ‘AC/DC backtracks PAL’ and still couldn’t be certain if this set was in fact available in PAL or not.  The first place I checked was Amazon UK and read the post about their set being NTSC.  I even emailed 2 UK DVD online companies and 1 Australian company just to make sure.  1 UK company still hasn’t replied even though I sent them the email just under a week ago.  The other 2 did reply with a stock standard reply referring me back to their product pages.  They seem to list this set with the stock standard ‘all DVDs are in PAL format unless specified’, but no more info was given and it didn’t fill me with confidence that what they were selling really is a PAL set.  The other sites I have looked at simply do not state what format it is in or list it as NTSC.  I’ve also emailed ACDCrocks.com directly and asked them specifically about this, but they seem to be based in the USA and will only ship NTSC discs and told me that all of the set that they have are NTSC.  I have a friend in Australia who is also going to have a look around for me in the local stores, but I haven’t heard back from him yet either.

So far I have not been able to get a definitive reply from my enquiries that says categorically that ‘YES, we have checked the box and definitely have this set in PAL, you should buy from us’.  Also given that the same set in NZ seems to be cheaper by a significant amount than the UK/US/Aust prices (not including postage costs of course), I am reluctant to take a risk of importing one from the UK just to find out that it’s only available in NTSC up there too.  In which case I may just as well buy it locally.

As you can see, I really have made some efforts to find out myself before posting to the forum.  The reason I didn’t state all of the above lengthy detail in my original query is that I guessed that the longer the post, the less likely anyone is to actually read through it.  I also thought that there would be at least a few Acca-Dacca fans on the forum who would already have bought the PAL set if available and would give a speedy and courteous reply.  Kinda like ‘yeah mate, got mine in PAL from here’ sort of thing.

Anyways, many apologies for getting snippy or out of line with Mr ‘F***ing HotRod’, but I really did think his post was pretty cheeky.  Simply replying to a thread because it has no posts yet isn’t very helpful.  Neither is stating that ‘YES here is what you asked for – nahhh, haha gota ya dude!’ isn’t much help either and doesn’t win friends.  I do however thank him most dearly for his undoubted wit and levity.

Having thought about it though, I guess Mr ‘F***ing HotRod’ did do me one favour in that he’s certainly helped spark some interest in what should have been a pretty low post thread (Yeah good on ya again HotRod).

Cheers guys.

Thanks for the positive reply Frink.  Much appreciated mate.

Yeah, I did see the musicshop.com.au listing.  It looked a pretty much generic 'this DVD is PAL unless stated otherwise' type of description, so I decided to see what EZYDVD came back with instead of emailing musicshop as well.  I've only just sent MusicShop an email just to be sure, so I'll let you know what they come back with.

Even googling the UPC listed in MusicShop seems to only come up with USA based DVD company listings.  hmmm, not looking good on finding a PAL version.

FYI, I've dealt with EZYDVD before and they seem to be pretty reliable and I was more confident that they would give a definite answer.  BTW, if you ever need to get an Aussie only release of a DVD/CD, then I can recommend EZYDVD.

Unfortunately though when EZYDVD replied they just gave me the URL for the very same page I'd enquired about without actually answering my guestion.  Interestingly, EZYDVD have the full bells and whistles amplifier set listed HERE and the regular set HERE both as region 4.  I'm pretty sure though that the amplifier set will be region 0 and most likely NTSC, so probably the other one is as well and they just got lazy on the product descriptions.  I did ask the people at ACDCrocks if they were any plans on releasing these sets in PAL but they just told me that they 'had it available in NTSC only'.  Not quite what I asked them, but at least they replied.

Hopefully my mate in Oz will find out once and for all if it is available over there.  I'll be sure to post here letting everyone know if I do eventually manage to find the PAL version.

I've also noticed that the google search comes up for torrent listing which may have PAL (can't check at work though).  I'm not insterested in downloading it and would prefer to just buy the genuine set if possible.

As for getting the set from Australia, it really doesn't make much difference than getting it from the UK because the postage to NZ is always pretty mighty.  Actually, in the past when I've bought stuff from the UK, for some reason the price and postage usually works out cheaper than I can get the same item from Sydney, even when you take exchange rates and other stuff into account.  Crazy.  NZ and Oz seem to have the highest product and postage costs of most English speaking countries for DVD/CDs for some reason.  Maybe it's because there is more competition in the UK/Europe or the size of our small local market or maybe it's because we're so far away from 'the real world'.  Who knows.

... and returns to Oz/UK are a pain in the butt.  More expensive return postage that wouldn't be covered by any retailer.  I'd like to be sure that I get the right thing and not have to return it.  Good suggestion though and I have thought about doing that.

Sorry, my posts seem to be getting pretty long these days.

BTW, did you go the the Black Ice concert?  What did you think?  Personally, I thought it was by far the best concert I've been to since Ballbreaker in '96.

For those about to rock, I salute you!

Orinoco_Womble said:

 

Having thought about it though, I guess Mr ‘F***ing HotRod’ did do me one favour in that he’s certainly helped spark some interest in what should have been a pretty low post thread (Yeah good on ya again HotRod)

 You're welcome

Just had a reply this morning from both EZYDVD and MusicShop.com.au.  They have both confirmed that the sets they have are in NTSC format and will be updating their product descriptions shortly.  Still no other replies from the other online DVD shops that I emailed yet.  So, it really does look like there isn't a PAL release of this title.  POO!