I’d love to watch that show again. I tried a couple of years ago and couldn’t find it anywhere.
There are DVDs. I don’t know where you live but they should be relatively easy to acquire?
Me too. I had brief hopes for Disney+ but no nice. Apparently the rights situation is more complicated. I´d love to watch that again myself from start to finish. It hasn´t been on over here since the 90s.
Not in germany. Apparently they can´t turn up the dub anymore (and I guess there would have to be considerable demand for a re-dub?)
All german amazon lists is an import from Denmark(but at a reasonable price). Nah, that´s just box one and they got more expensive by the higher numbers (they seem to be at least four) so see below. 
I´d rather hope it turns up on one of the bigger streaming platforms though. I don´t think I´d rewatch it more than once 
Harrison Ford´s appearance on the show:
1 Like
4 Likes
I sometimes forget about regions and I wish everybody could, such nonsense. I’ve always made research into making players region-free part of buying players and our collection contains much more region 1 than 2. (Because most of it didn’t come from me.) So if a show like Tremors: The Complete Series isn’t available in Europe…
It does look like Young Indiana Jones (and Tremors for that matter) has become fairly unavailable since a few years ago… 
I reconfigured my computer’s DVD drive to region 1 to get around that nonsense
I remember my old computer had that as an option but also with the damning caveat that when I change regions a certain number of times the last time of those will be final. Do they still do that?
Yes, you can only change it 5 times. But since DVD-ROM games don’t have this stupid region like movies do, I have no need to ever change it back.
So do you only import movies with region 1 from then on or do you watch the region 2 dvds which are more common here somewhere else?
There are some people who are a bit… uptight about framerates. Not that I’m accusing @Sushi of being one. 
Whaa? I mean I know that´s always been an issue with games because of the reaction time delay. But for movies? 
American movies are typically shot in 24 fps, so for European TV at 50 fps it’s traditionally sped up slightly to 25 fps if I’m not mistaken. On DVDs it might also be stored that way. It’s called “PAL speedup” and some claim it makes actors sound like chipmunks. I think it’s barely noticeable if at all.
In any case, certain combinations are eternally messed up on the DVD itself without the possibility to correct it. The only one that bothers me is 4:3 letterboxing. Our DVD of The Silence of the Lambs for example is a very early DVD, so to display it in full screen you have to cut it to 16:9. But by that point it doesn’t look very good anymore because the movie was only using about half of the available lines. Besides which, this copy of The Silence of the Lambs is an American DVD.
At least back in the day, flashing region-agnostic firmware was also a thing for some drives.
Today I’m actually a bit out of the loop. We do have a number of Region 1 DVDs from our time overseas, but none we would watch regularly. So when it came to order a drive for a new PC (because that was actually cheaper than an IDE to SATA adapter), the color of the front panel was the decisive factor, not which DVDs it might play 
.
I know about all that, but so far I was only aware that it affects the running time noticably (as in a few minutes difference even between versions) but I never heard anyone claim that it changes the voices at all or the look that much.
What I do know is that the german dubs of blu rays apparently have the problem that the voices are often noticably too low which is something that is supposed to happen in the mastering process to HD and if you don´t go out of your way to adjust the soundtrack for that (which at least in the early days of the medium they must have forgotten about?).
Eurgh, yeah early DVDs that didn´t have the HD display in mind yet look fine on a CRT but on my current TV the tiny image is just trapped in this big black box. 
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (50s)
The 36th Chamber of The Shaolin
48 Hrs.
Just a few examples in my collection that look like that.
1 Like
Yes, I watch those on TV with a regular DVD player.
The region 1 stuff: either on the PC or with a cable to the big screen.
1 Like
I had to buy a new DVD drive recently because my old one broke. There were pretty much only two models, one sold by LG and one by ASUS. Long story short I bought the LG one and it seems to play both regions out of the box.
It’ll be 1/24th faster with an associated 1/24th higher pitch. You should be able to hear it side by side unless they’ve applied pitch correction.
That was a problem on our mid-'90s Philips TV too iirc. It could apply its own letterboxing to 16:9 content and that was better looking than pre-letterboxed stuff.
1 Like
Didn’t realize Young Indiana Jones Chronicles went on that long. Or is it the typical DVD packaging in which there are like 8 episodes per volume and then they put massive filler?
I wouldn’t mind watching the series in its entirety. I saw only a few episodes when it aired on TV and I liked it.
1 Like
Both.
The US/UK versions include up to 15 hours of extras. In general they’re quite good and not filler. If you’re into historical documentaries, that is.
They’re re-edited into 7 or 8 episodes per volume, but each new episode is full feature length.
what do y’all think the “dial of destiny” does exactly?
1 Like
It calls you up!
Seriously: I have no idea at the moment.