Blu ray needs to be region free

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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?

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.