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In Reply to: HOW DVDS SHOULD BE posted by lingerlonger on August 08, 2002 at 14:45:03:
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Check out the link below to win the war against "regionalisation".As for this ending, I don't think it will be in the near future. I read that Hollywood (the culprit behind the problem) was going to try to get releases in the US and abroad to have less of a gap, but nothing further ever came from this initial news.
I've also read that an enhanced version of region coding is on its way/already implemented. This "enhancement" may give trouble to some players that have been modded or have features in their "hidden" or service menus to allow all region play.
These stories sound contradictory to me. The reality is that Hollywood and the MPAA want to get the most out of their releases in the US and abroad -- and that means region coding. There is usually a 6 month gap between movie releases in the US and abroad, due to the fact that stars have changing schedules and promotions to do (for millions of $, I'd let anyone make my schedule for me! :-)). I can understand that to some extent, but let's get that down to 3 or 4 months tops. It is doable.
What I am completely against is the issue of soundtracks. Why should a DVD release in the UK get a DTS soundtrack, when those of us in the US -- where the God damn movie was made -- only get a Dolby Digital track? Who decides this? The movie studios.
Like mom always said, "If they had brains... they'd be dangerous.".
Hi Joe,
actually my Denon DVD 2800 is modded to play regions 1 and 2 and, frankly, I made it clear to the dealer that I would only buy on that condition. Actually, I can live with a 6 months delay, if need be, but similar to the problem you have with the soundtracks, I will not accept that the US release features much more material than the European ones (example: Shrek), even less that the industry morons decide to release films, series, whatever, in one region only. Who do these bozo's think they are that they can decide who is allowed to see what material. Utterly unacceptable, curse them!!!
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