[GZG] for the Babylon 5 fans out there... [TOBECLASSIFIED] [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

It does specifically say that is is a Region 1 release only.

Makes you hate the region coding even more than usual. (For those that aren't
aware; Australia is in Region 4... With south america...)

Brendan 'Neath Southern Skies
http://home.pacific.net.au/~southernsk/

> -----Original Message-----

> Robertson, Brendan wrote:

Here in Holland I don't. All players are already region free, or can be made
so, and nobody seems to bother much about it.

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> Robertson, Brendan <Brendan.Robertson@dva.gov.au> wrote:

I never understood the reason for region codes. :-/

Here's to hoping the other regions get the release as well.

Mk

Indy wrote on 07/12/2007 06:18:37 AM:

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> On 7/12/07, Robertson, Brendan <Brendan.Robertson@dva.gov.au> wrote:

Money, greed, control...

> Here's to hoping the other regions get the release as well.

Honestly, there are several movies and TV series in Europe that have the
Region code (though I've seen some players that are supposed to be breakable)
AND superior PAL technology (ok, can be overcome at more than some expense)
that I can't share, and don't let me start about the really bad Chinese copies
that are the only access for me to some Japanese anime.

Notice, I don't give examples. I'm sure we can all come up with a more than a
few; no need to fill the list.

We DO know your pain, my brethren across the several ponds...

The_Beast

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> http://lists.csua.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gzg-lIndy wrote:

> On 7/12/07, Robertson, Brendan <Brendan.Robertson@dva.gov.au

Given that a) it's easy to buy region-free / multi-region DVD players in

the UK, and b) the current strength of the pound means that a DVD from the US
costs us roughly the same as three ship's peanuts in sterling,
I'll happily buy the region-1 version  :-)

> Indy wrote on 07/12/2007 06:18:37 AM:

I've always assumed it was two-pronged: trying to restrict
grey-market importing due to big price differences, and also because
of widely varying release dates in different regions (the two are obviously
very closely linked....).

> Here's to hoping the other regions get the release as well.

Many of the Region 2 players we have here are easily hackable, often
just by key codes on the remote - in fact, the cheaper the player the
more likely it is to be easily region-hacked or even multi-region to
begin with, just because the makers saved some cash by NOT
region-encoding it....  :-)

But probably 9 out of 10 of the average mundanes don't ever worry about other
region discs, they just buy whatever is on the
supermarket shelf, so I guess the manufacturers win overall - but us
Geeks don't have any trouble getting hold of R1 discs and compatible players.
Oh, and almost all modern TVs over here can handle NTSC as well as PAL input,
so that's not a problem either. I assume that going from PAL to NTSC is much
more problematic?

Jon (GZG)

> Notice, I don't give examples. I'm sure we can all come up with a more

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People in region 1 are able (and willing) to spend upwards of US$20 for a DVD.
People in some parts of the world are neither willing, nor able to pay that
much. Restricting DVD's to regions allows the copyright holder to charge
whatever the market will bear, without worrying about people in region 1
importing cheap, ***legitimate*** copies from places where it sells for less.

A non-scummy reason for regions is that, in places where piracy is
rampant, they can sell a legitimate DVD at a price low enough to get a small
profit, while attacking the bootleggers' bottom line (the pirate copy must be
cheaper to sell, in place of a legitimate one), without cannibalising profits
in other markets.