DVD - Videos
Our DVDs are produced in house. To purchase them please write an e-mail here store(at)longwayfactory.org or use our contact form.
Please specify your country TV standard: PAL or NTSC. All our videos are wide screen/16:9. For more information please read below. HD (1920 x 1080) Blu Ray versions are available on request. DVDs are contained inside the beautiful Jewelboxing made by Coudal Partners.
As soon as possible our videos will be available also via iTunes and other online distribution services.
WIDE SCREEN AND LETTERBOX
As a rule, most T.V. screens and Computer monitors maintain a Width/Height aspect ratio of 4:3 (4 pixels wide for every 3 pixels high). However, Movie titles don’t follow this rule and are usually wider, mostly conforming to a 16:9 aspect ratio (16 pixels wide for every 9 pixels high), but not always. When viewing Wide-Screen or Letterboxed titles, you will notice that there are two black stripes above and below the movie image. Certain DVD titles contain both a Wide- Screen and a Full-Screen versions on the same DVD Disc, while others only contain one of the two. Some people detest watching Wide-Screen movies while others prefer it because the image is not truncated when converted to full screen by the DVD author. Another benefit of Wide-Screen is that if the title is encoded correctly (See Anamorphic Wide Screen encoding) it can be viewed on a wide-screen television without the black stripes.
DVD REGIONS
The big movie companies, who so far divided the world by the various T.V. standards (NTSC, PAL, etc…), started fearing the DVD. Since the DVD format is a digital medium, and so it has no different broadcast standards for various world regions. So in order to discourage cross-country purchases of movie titles, they came with with the infamous Region Scheme. This scheme basically divided our small planet into six regions.
However, not all regions were created equal. Since 99.99% of the world film market is generated in the good old U.S. (which is region #1, if you were wondering), all the DVD titles come out as Region #1 and only then transferred to the various other regions. However, there are some titles that aren’t transferred, while others are modified and lose some of the perks that the original Region #1 title had.
