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That isn't going to endear the format to some film enthusiasts who shop for quality foreign fare.

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In Reply to: RE: Some content providers ARE enforcing Blu-ray region restrictions (nt) posted by racerguy on November 11, 2007 at 11:20:26

This is one of those issues that can, especially in the short term, turn into a major drawback trying to sell and promote high definition formats, IMO. The problem is in understanding the audience. Early adopters aren't merely techno-geeks hungry to possess the latest whiz-bang toy, they're also film enthusiasts who are mavericks when it comes to accepting unnecessarily imposed restrictions that limit their entertainment choices.

Studio paranoia over piracy combined with a desire to micromanage world-wide video distribution have long been a stumbling block to the adoption of new technologies; lets hope that sanity prevails so that either or both HD formats can gain a solid market foothold in the window of opportunity provided.

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