09-18-2005, 05:23 AM
Groot GoudaSep 17 2005, 11:41 PM If a company wants to make less profit, that's their decision, not a government's.
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Region encoding allows the companies to determine what content is available in a particular region. IRL being in region 4 means that only about 80% of what is produced in regions 1&2 is available here because it is decided by media distrbuters what is profitable in a particular region.
I feel that this is just a form of economic censorship, it shouldn't be up to companies to decide what and what is not available for us to purchase - if it exists we should have that right to purchase it and be able to view it no matter where we are in the world. Thank goodness for multi-region dvd players :wave:
Personally I think its sneaky that there happens to be ten dvd regions (0-9) and the consortia of companies that orginally developed the dvd had 10 members.
Coincidence?
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Region encoding allows the companies to determine what content is available in a particular region. IRL being in region 4 means that only about 80% of what is produced in regions 1&2 is available here because it is decided by media distrbuters what is profitable in a particular region.
I feel that this is just a form of economic censorship, it shouldn't be up to companies to decide what and what is not available for us to purchase - if it exists we should have that right to purchase it and be able to view it no matter where we are in the world. Thank goodness for multi-region dvd players :wave:
Personally I think its sneaky that there happens to be ten dvd regions (0-9) and the consortia of companies that orginally developed the dvd had 10 members.
Coincidence?