The great region rip off continues!!!!

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Originally Posted by AlaskaDon

This really doesn't have anything to do with Blu-ray as a format. A given title may not be owned by the same studio in any given country i.e. the rights to a Fox title in the US might be owned by Warner in the UK etc. Not really a whole lot you can do in that situation. Even if it's the same studio, that doesn't necessarily mean that the title was mastered in the same location, or even that the same master might have been used to produce the BD.

I never understood what this deal about different studios having rights for any given movie in different regions was. If a studio, say Warner was not in some country say France, then I understand that they sell the rights to some French studio. But in my example Warner is established in France, yet movie X made and released by Warner in the US will be released by say Miramax in France. Why since there is a Warner in France ? except to be an excuse to rip us off on poor releases, I don't see a good reason