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Originally Posted by lateralus85
As title suggests. The cost of blu ray dvds here in Australia is insane. You will only find a few blu ray dvds under 35US but most are about 45US.
Not only that but the selection here is very small and when I went to look at buying some blu ray movies on Amazon I realise that none of them will work on my ps3. I just think the blu ray is actually losing out of sales here and is very Inconvenient for customers like myself. There are some rare blu rays I would like to own like the NIN live blu ray but cannot find a pal region version of it.
In the mean time, HD DVD owners are importing their dvds at a cheaper rate and having a larger selection to choose from. Not to mention that the dvd's get delivered to you and most customers would buy more than 1 dvd to reduce delivery cost which equals more sales.
So yeh, if blu ray were region free I think this war would be a landslide to blu ray. The world today is internet shopping, yek PS3 games are region free but not blu ray movies. Thats just not right.
What do you all think?
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You do realize that most BDs are region free? Including the NIN disc you refer to in your post. The US release will play in your region B player.
Use these sites:
http://www.dtvforum.info/index.php?showtopic=50447
http://bluray.liesinc.net/
I think one of the biggest misconceptions regarding Blu-ray is the region coding. It is not required and most discs don't use it.