Most legitimate Belvision DVDs were released in France and Belgium (Region 2, PAL format). If you are in North America (Region 1, NTSC), you cannot play these on a standard standard-definition DVD player without a multi-region player. However, many modern Blu-ray players and computer drives can bypass this.

Finding the full 103-episode series on DVD is difficult because many episodes were only ever released on VHS or as edited feature films.

For decades, before Steven Spielberg’s motion-capture film and the Ellipse/Nelvana animated series, came to life in a groundbreaking 1960s animated co-production between Belvision Studios (Belgium) and广播电视 French Television (RTF). These are often referred to simply as the Belvision Tintin cartoons .

: This is one of the most common ways to find Belvision work on DVD. It typically includes three feature-length films: The Calculus Affair (1964), Tintin and the Temple of the Sun (1969), and Tintin and the Lake of Sharks (1972). You can find these at retailers like Amazon UK .

Not all Hergé albums were adapted. Missing are Tintin in the Land of the Soviets , Tintin in the Congo , The Blue Lotus , The Broken Ear , The Black Island , King Ottokar’s Sceptre , The Crab with the Golden Claws , The Shooting Star , The Red Sea Sharks , Tintin in the Land of Black Gold , and Flight 714 to Sydney .