I’ve got a half-hour DVD of a film (that I’ve shot) that I’m showing at a conference in Europe next month, but I’m having a hard time locating a decent price for transferring from a U.S.-region DVD into a Europe-region DVD.
Cartooniverse has very kindly offered me some help in copying a DV-master (which was what I thought I’d get from my editor), but the editor gave me a DVD instead, and his contact for tranforming it into a European DVD quoted me several hundred dollars–for one copy! (Double that for two.) I can’t believe that for several hundred bucks I can’t just buy a whole friggen machine capable of burning DVDs playable anywhere, including Mars.
So what’s a reasonable price? And if I want copies of the US version, how mich should that be? Finally, are places to get bulk copies listed in my Manhattan phone book, and if so, under what?
I was going to suggest that you do it yourself. But I guess you don’t want to learn how/pay for a DVD burner and software.
Does a friend have the necessary equipment perhaps?
If you lived near me (Near NYC) I would happilly offer ot help you out 
I work in Manhattan. Is that close enough?
I’ll gratefullly take any help I can get, thanks.
Ha! Yeah that’s close enough
I have all the equipment you would need at home. You can reach me at gothiccrux@comcast.net and we’ll see what we can work out, wether you want to mail me the disc or whatever, I’ll be happy to help.
You may not need to convert it; multi-region dvd players are rather common in Europe; have you checked as to whether there’s one available at the conference centre?
Interesting concept, Mangetout: DVDs that play in any DVD player. I wonder why we haven’t thought of that before 
But I’ve been notified by the woman at the hotel in Switzerland that their DVD player works “only for european formats.
What means only DVDs with code 2 can by played. The same
for our VHS video recorder.” So I need some mojo.
Thanks for trying, though.