Stream Inspector Lewis: Series 2 Online
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Stream Inspector Lewis: Series 2 Online.
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The Inspector Morse mysteries were perhaps the finest television mysteries ever developed. I loved Morse and enjoyed every episode and ultimately purchased them all in the complete DVD edition. The Inspector Lewis mysteries are equally excellent television. They are a fine successor to the Morse series and deserving of five stars and my firm recommendation. I would like to buy a complete set of these, too, and I may, but from Amazon UK. Then I’ll have to buy an all-region DVD player.
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So why did I rate this DVD set only two stars? As the other reviewer discovered and wrote about, PBS is cutting about ten minutes from each episode to leave time for the extra introduction and to keep the entire length at less than 90 minutes. Each Inspector Lewis episode in the British DVD sets (Region 2) is about 93 minutes. Each episode in the PBS version is about 85 minutes which includes the extra introduction by PBS host Alan Cumming. The Series 2 Run Time is listed as 602 minutes, but that is wildly incorrect. It should be about 340 minutes.
But that’s not all. Again, as the reviewer said, these Inspector Lewis sets are two or more years behind schedule for U.S. patrons. The complete Inspector Lewis Series 1-3 DVD set has been available in the UK since 2007. That’s right, Series 1-3. A third series has been available since 2007 and PBS doesn’t even have it listed. Here’s a complete list of what’s actually completed and available:
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Pilot
Inspector Lewis
Series 1
Whom The Gods Would Destroy
Old School Ties
Expiation
Series 2
And The Moonbeams Kiss The Sea
Music To Die For
Life Born Of Fire
The Great And The Good
Series 3
Allegory Of Love
Quality Of Mercy
The Point Of Vanishing
Counter Culture Blues
The pilot episode is available by itself (in full length of 95 minutes) or as part of Series 1 with four DVDs in box. The other two series have four episodes/DVDs each. All three sets are available for less than $17 each on Amazon.co.uk, quite a bit less than the PBS price.
I strongly urge PBS to issue FULL-LENGTH episodes when they get around to selling the complete Series 1-3 box.
1. Get a region-free upconverting DVD player from Amazon.com (USA). A 5-star-reviewed Pioneer DV610av is a bit more than $100. My discontinued Pioneer DV383 (not upconverting), also from Amazon.com, has been totally trouble-free. It has done well with UK, German, and US DVD’s in both NTSC and PAL encoding. In fact, I plan to stay with it, because it delivers such superb image quality.
2. Buy ALL Lewis series released so far (1, 2, 3) UNCUT from Amazon.co.uk for about what ONE butchered series costs from the jerks in Bahstn. That’s right, you get series 3 already. 6 - 10 day air shipment for about $5 is included in the price. The savings on the three series will almost pay for the region-free DVD player.
UPDATE: Shipment arrived just now, five business days after ordering.
3. Repeat for lots of other stuff butchered in Bahstn. Often it will be, as with the Lewis series, not only uncut and unaccompanied by gratuitous PBS twaddle, but MUCH cheaper. Your next order after the three Lewis series will complete paying for your region-free DVD player. All savings after that are gravy.
4. Then email PBS and tell them [use your imagination].
If you are new to amazon.ca, amazon.co.uk, amazon.de, amazon.fr etc., the process is almost completely transparent, astonishingly easy, working just like amazon.com:
Links to them are at the bottom of most Amazon pages.
They already know all your shipping and billing addresses, have all your credit card info, and are set up to email order confirmations and notification of special deals.
Currency conversion is painless, automatic, and at a fair rate. Amazon bills your credit card in US$ so your card issuer can’t rip you off.
Ordering Lewis 1, 2, & 3 from amazon.co.uk took far less than five minutes, just as with my first amazon.de (site is in German) order a few years ago.
You can use foreign Amazon sites to send gifts to loved ones and associates in other countries without worrying with customs declarations and postage from the USA. I have done it many times, often getting next-day delivery at no extra charge. European countries are, after all, about the size of US states and have more efficient transport networks than ours.
And PBS can [use your imagination].
UPDATE (30 Sep 09): Playback of the UK DVDs with the region-free Pioneer DV383 on a Sony Bravia LCD screen with 5.1 surround thru an Integra receiver with Infinity speakers and subwoofer, a 3.5 year-old system, was as close to flawless as my ancient eyes and ears can detect. The improvement in image quality from an upconverting region-free DVD player would probably be so minor that I will not replace the Pioneer DV383, which also automatically detected the UK recording mode without help. It was just as effortless as playing the best US DVDs on the same system.
Another bit of info that put PBS even nearer the top of my scented list: The UK DVDs are a co-production with WGBH Bahstn, in the clutches of the ubiquitous Rebecca Eaton. This completes proof that PBS KNEW OF AND EVEN HELPED PLAN THE BUTCHERY, GROTESQUE OVERPRICING, AND TWO-YEAR DELAY IN AVAILABILITY FROM THE BEGINNING. The hundreds of dollars I used to contribute to PBS each year will now go toward buying better DVDs of their stuff at far lower prices on much better delivery schedules from the UK.
BTW, I do not plan to email PBS about this. Their reaction would probably not be to clean up their act, but to try to block sales of UK DVDs of their co-productions to US customers, possibly via protectionist legislation.
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