Region Indicated on Case Not Always Correct - Why?

[Ray_Rogers]

Originally Posted by knight17

It might be done to deter importing, if the customer is not persistent. For instance, some, if not all of the US Box sets are a lot more expensive than UK releases and so on, hence simply mentioning that it is Region A or Region B might deter some of them from purchasing them.

There are other instances when the studios might have erroneously included it as stated above.

With regard to box sets there are also instances when one movie might be locked to a region and others wouldn't be, so for that purpose it might be mentioned.

End of the day, region locking is an unwanted functionality as far as I am concerned.

When the studios insist that customers purchase genuine goods, they must go out of their way to make sure that it is available to do so irrespective of geographical limitations and so on.

While I hated the fact that WB refused to release the rest of the T&J collection, I am thankful they don't go around locking any of their releases.

Nevertheless the fact that Blu ray players are cheap and can be made multi-region more or less solves this issue.

I've been using AnyDVD HD on my computer for as long as I put it together in 2011, because I have a nice ASUS BD-Burner drive. Prior to that I only had a Region A Sony player which I gave to my Ma as a Christmas present several years back. Still own my OPPO 971-H DVD multi-region player but it hasn't been used in a long time.
Even though I use BDInfo, AnyDVD HD still removes any Region Locking from the Region B titles I own. Yes I own quite a lot, use HD Goofnut's threads regarding various releases from around the planet, DVDCompare.net, Caps-a-Holic.com, and obviously this forum for imports.
Many of the Blu-ray listings on this site will state whether or not a title is Region Free, A, B, A/B combo or whichever. It is user submitted contributions. To me it doesn't matter whether a release is locked or not, it's all about the price for the exact releases I want to buy.

Apologies if this is long winded.