b) have an expensive sony 7700 dvd player that was chipped by sony and sold from the shop that way
so as I have a multi region player, multi standard video not a problem for me.
the stuff is in PAL because I haven't bought the 2004 dvd release yet, I borrowed a R2 set off a friend, but my film capture was done from the NTSC DE Laserdiscs so at the moment, the complete set is a mixed media until I get out from being just made redundant and can get the NTSC R1 2004 DVD release. then I'm going to remaster the extras using the same stuff, but as NTSC.
the making of's when I bought them off ebay, I was very surprised to find they were in PAL form. I think whoever did them (and they are rubbish quality by the way,) must have used a multi standard UK LD player and recorded them direct onto their DVD recorder. they need a lot of cleaning up and as it is a 4:3 PAL TV source, I'm not sure if converting them to NTSC is a good idea or possible at this point.
however if anyone would care to send me a DVD-R with the NTSC versions of these on, that would be great so I can finish this set off.
at this point I am thinking of using Scara's covers.
also, when I get a job, I'm going to get a Pioneer A09 or something similar so I can burn this dual layer and save on discs.
then, when I do get the NTSC 2004 DVD's I am tempted to follow a few other examples here and try and de-SE the DVD's using a mix of source material and perhaps keep one or two SE changes, like ben's house matte painintg.
I am also seriously toying with the idea of doing branching so I have both SE, and normal on one dual layer disc. gonna need a lot of reading to accomplish that though.