This is already a long shot, so I won't shrink the Venn diagram any more than that.
I'm trying to obtain the 9 Russian DVDs listed here. As if trying to get DVDs from Russia to Canada wasn't hard enough, they are out of print and the one retailer that has some of the volumes is unable to obtain stock for the rest.
I've tried to PM/email the owner of the fansite I linked above via a forum, but he hasn't accessed it for a year.
The Russian DVD's are just bootlegs, so you'd be better off just downloading them, you can get fairly decent quality rips online and then you wouldn't be supporting piracy with your money. There has never been an official release of the first two seasons, at least last time I checked. Anything you burn and print yourself would probably be at least as good quality as the Russian bootlegs.
Reading the description of those Russian bootlegs, they are over dubbed in Russian, so unless you speak it, they wouldn't be very fun to watch.
The Russians tend to do this thing where they take the original audio track and dub over it, so the original audio and voice acting will still be there, but you'll hear a voice in Russian talking over it. I've never seen that done in any other country I have been, other than in the instance of some documentaries.
In Soviet Russia, the film dubs you!
“First feel fear, then get angry. Then go with your life into the fight.” - Bill Mollison
CP3S, I'm not coming into this blind.
I have XviD DVDRips of the Russian DVDs that are higher quality than the official R1 release of Season 1, with synched English audio (the US episodes are aliased). So I want the originals without the XviD compression.
My assistant Miss Sakamoto tells me that I'm not due in Moscow again until 1983 which is sadly over a decade before the series begins.
drngr said:
CP3S, I'm not coming into this blind.
In off-topic, we'll be the judge of that.