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In general, it is easier for consumers in PAL countries to view NTSC DVDs than vice versa. Almost all DVD players sold in PAL countries play both kinds of discs, and most modern PAL TVs can handle the converted signal. However, most NTSC players can't play PAL discs, and most NTSC TVs don't work with PAL video. Those in NTSC countries, such as in North America, generally require both a multi-standard player and television to view PAL discs, or a converter box. There are also differences in pixel aspect ratio (720x480 vs. 720x576), display frame rate (29.97 vs. 25), and surround audio options (Dolby Digital vs. MPEG audio). Again, NTSC discs (with Dolby Digital audio) play on over 95% of DVD systems worldwide, while PAL discs play on very few players outside of PAL countries.

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Originally posted by Amos:
Little things please me. Like the way the Archdeacon pours his tea into the bucket for the leaks from the roof, and his coffee straight down the vicarage sink.

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After he said, "Thank you"...

And the REV telling the man not to wear a niquab!!!

And what about that teacher seeing a naked previous pupil?

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Originally posted by ToujoursDan:
Most players in North America don't do format conversion (PAL is 625 lines at 25 fps and NTSC is 525 lines at 30 fps). Playing a PAL DVD in North America merely gives you an error saying that they are unplayable. In other parts of the world it's different.

Here you'd have to buy a special "region free, code free" player, like this: Amazon: NEW JVC XVBP11 All Multi Region Code Free DVD BLU RAY Player. Plays all region DVD 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 PAL or NTSC and Zone A Blu Rays.

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I must have missed that episode.

Back to tonight's.

The Archdeacon knows a "men's day spa on Bond Street".

I like him more and more.

And as for letting the Koran group use the church:

"Will they pay?"

"Yes."

"Fine. Good. Get as much off them as you can. In my experience muslims like men in cassocks. They can relate."


But, no cab tonight. Is he economising?

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Originally posted by Schroedinger's cat:
There is a certain degree of predictability in some of the plot lines.

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There is a certain degree of predictability in some of the plot lines.

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I dunno ... In the second episode I predicted that someone would catch Adam chasing after an apparent prostitute, and in Monday's episode I thought he was being set up for a honeytrap at the strip club when the owner offered him free champagne. I didn't see the actual endings coming ...

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1) why does he dress like a tramp when his wife has a good wage?

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2) why could they not have put at least forty in the pews...four just sells a REALLY dismall image of the church to society and is not accurate IMO

3) Why did they have to give us predictable political bious and not make it more interesting? ie..nasty evo, nice muslim, pro women and gays, yawn, yawn lefty yawn!

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Originally posted by rugbyplayingpriest:
My questions are these:

1) why does he dress like a tramp when his wife has a good wage?

2) why could they not have put at least forty in the pews...four just sells a REALLY dismall image of the church to society and is not accurate IMO

3) Why did they have to give us predictable political bious and not make it more interesting? ie..nasty evo, nice muslim, pro women and gays, yawn, yawn lefty yawn!

Overall it is watchable and it does touch on truths but overall the reality is downplayed and the sense of a dying and pointless institution comes accross

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1. I thought he was just a bit scruffy. Bit like most 30 something men I know, including my husband. Perhaps he doesn't want to be subsidised by her?

2. I agree 4 is a bit dismal, I think they're exaggerating for cominc effect. But I'm not at all fussed about the image it's presenting to the public at large - so far I think it's the truest depiction of the church I've seen, and I'm glad it's not trying to advertise or put across a good image of the church. It looks struggling to find its way and what it's supposed to be doing, not dying.

3. Bias, what bias? Admittedly the nasty evos were painted with broad strokes, and I suspect I liked that episode in particular because it appealed to my own prejudices, and resonated all too painfully with my own experiences. But the prickliness and mutual incomprehension between the "2 sides" are pretty real in my experience, which I'm sure is more limited than most here.

There have only been 3 episodes so far, let's see what happens with the latter half of the series....

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Also, did you notice that whilst last week he stood up to Evo Darren about too much certainty being a bad thing, this week he admired the moral certainty of the Muslims and tried to emulate it?

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2) why could they not have put at least forty in the pews...four just sells a REALLY dismall image of the church to society and is not accurate IMO

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Originally posted by wilson:
I am still enjoying it but I think the latest episode wasn't the best.

Also, did you notice that whilst last week he stood up to Evo Darren about too much certainty being a bad thing, this week he admired the moral certainty of the Muslims and tried to emulate it?

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Originally posted by The Great Gumby:
But even if he is inconsistent (I don't think that's the case, but it might not be a total surprise, given that much of the storyline is apparently taken from true stories from clergy of all stripes), I still find him the most "real" character I've seen on TV in many years.

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Originally posted by Benny Diction 2:
I was saying to my wife last night that I was sure the actor playing the Archdeacon was the same chap who played the organist / choir master in the Vicar of Dibley. And I was right! Simon McBurney

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The Archdeacon is Simon McBurney -- who surely landed this gig on the strength of his portrayal of Foreign Office attache Stone in The Last King Of Scotland. The characters are so similar - constantly materialising from nowhere to offer sage advice in rather petulant manner. A couple of minor roles he had in The Vicar Of Dibley would be purely incidental.

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"O 'Melia, my dear, this does everything crown!
Who could have supposed I should meet you in Town?
And whence such fair garments, such prosperi-ty?"
"O didn't you know I'd been ruined?" said she.

"You left us in tatters, without shoes or socks,
Tired of digging potatoes, and spudding up docks;
And now you've gay bracelets and bright feathers three!"
"Yes: that's how we dress when we're ruined," said she.

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... Just realised where I know Nigel from - he was Archie from Balamory!

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Some of my other half's clerical shirts are getting a bit faded - perhaps those ones need culling.

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Does Adam dress like a tramp?

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I have no problems with the lack of laughs. I just think it is pointless. Neither a Comedy or a Drama. And not particularly interesting.
I will not bothe watching again.

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Originally posted by ken:
- the liturgy and vestments and general conduct of the church services are real. That's how real Anglicans really behave in church. I found myself almost automatically making the responses. I never got that from The Vicar of Dibley or the scenes set in church in other soap operas or dramas. (Even the great Cracker got church life wrong - as does The Archers, though its not so bad)

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Yup, me too - I accidently joined in with Morning Prayer in one episode, earning very odd looks from my boyfriend.

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Originally posted by ken:
- the liturgy and vestments and general conduct of the church services are real. That's how real Anglicans really behave in church. I found myself almost automatically making the responses. I never got that from The Vicar of Dibley or the scenes set in church in other soap operas or dramas. (Even the great Cracker got church life wrong - as does The Archers, though its not so bad)

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Yup, me too - I accidently joined in with Morning Prayer in one episode, earning very odd looks from my boyfriend.

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