Blu-ray to Begin Region-Coding this Fall

[zombie]

http://www.highdefdigest.com/news/sh...is_Fall___/277

Boo!

[BTBuck1]

i guess it's only a big deal if you import movies.

which I personally dont. And if I did, they'd come from japan which is in my region.

[BTBuck1]

Originally Posted by nyg

Well if Blu-ray is better than HD DVD it has yet to show exactly how it is. Region coding is yet another thing that makes Blu-ray less consumer friendly than HD DVD is. Sorry but it's true.

who does this really affect though? niche importers and potential piraters?
I really think it's a small thing and not even a factor.

Best Buy just reset the planogram to allow for two 4 foot sections for HDDVD and right next to it two more 4 foot sections for Blu-Ray. THis being on the first row of movies in Media behind the featurewall. This is good exposure and a sign that they are making room for the new hotness.
don't worry they'll be plenty of content and you'll have little to no reaon to import anything.

Besides, we seems to be getting stuff first anyways. (for the most part)

[phloyd]

Originally Posted by Brian@BBY

who does this really affect though? niche importers and potential piraters?

ME! - though I won't say which group I belong to

don't worry they'll be plenty of content and you'll have little to no reaon to import anything.

It will be fine if you have no interest outside of the Hollywood studios. There is a whole world out there of great movies.

That said, I am not sure how much the catalogue releases will be coded (since this is all Hollywood paranoia anyways). Much as we have region 0 DVDs now.

[Dave]

There are region hacks you know

[Sidewinder]

Originally Posted by Dave

There are region hacks you know

I hope so...but for PS3 there won't be any :-(

[Sidewinder]

Originally Posted by phloyd

ME! - though I won't say which group I belong to

It will be fine if you have no interest outside of the Hollywood studios. There is a whole world out there of great movies.

That said, I am not sure how much the catalogue releases will be coded (since this is all Hollywood paranoia anyways). Much as we have region 0 DVDs now.

Yeah I'm also one of those, being a european citizen I won't be able to watch Japanese or Corean movies which really is a huge drawback...not even US BDs, this region coding thing really is a PITA. My first DVD player back in ~1997 was region free out of the box!

@Brian

how would it serve pirates if there wouldn't be any region coding? This is not a copy control measure...

[Ascended_Saiyan]

Originally Posted by Sidewinder

My first DVD player back in ~1997 was region free out of the box!

I bought my first DVD player in '97, too (I still have it--it works too). Mine was/is not region free.

how would it serve pirates if there wouldn't be any region coding? This is not a copy control measure...

It's more for Hollywood to control where titles are released. Like a movie could be on Blu-ray in one country but coming to the theaters in another country. They could just buy the movie on Blu-ray instead of watching it in the theater (money lost from the studio). Just like the movie Ong-Bak. I bought the DVD from overseas (before it hit the theaters in The States). I didn't see it in the theater. That's why they want regional codes.

I just hope I can still watch movies from India and Europe.

[Blackraven]

Originally Posted by Sidewinder

My first DVD player back in ~1997 was region free out of the box!

The Pioneer DVD player here in the house is a 2004 model. Already region free.

I guess there will also be region-free Blu-ray devices in the near future (probably after two to three years at min.)

[Blue]

Originally Posted by Brian@BBY

who does this really affect though? niche importers and potential piraters?
I really think it's a small thing and not even a factor.

don't worry they'll be plenty of content and you'll have little to no reaon to import anything.

Besides, we seems to be getting stuff first anyways. (for the most part)

Guess what, the world is a little bigger than just the USofA (in my best southern drawl).

Hopefully Blu ray will be a little different but when DVD was released there were many many titles available in the US - even now there are a number of titles (and not just B rade and art house) that are not available in Aus. There was also a thing of pricing, because we were a nice little captive market the price of DVD's were about AU$45 (for block busters) which was about US$38, so for exactly the same thing we were paying an extra US$14 just for the privalage of living down under. We maybe slow and backward so therefore have to pay the studios more but not quite that slow and backward.

[Blue]

NYG
not a hope, but your welcome to come and join me, just 2 things, as your aware we are down under, so you will have to learn to do everything upside down, and leave your guns behind. You would be suprised how many of your fellow countrymen are moving here.

[dobyblue]

So it looks like HD-DVD will have even more regions coded than Blu Ray will.

[Bullseye]

I buy most of my DVD's from the US so this will suck. I hope Pioneer make a region free player. Sony and there region coding is annoying to say the least.

[takezo]

I don't need imported DVD's. I support studios that release foreign films to US. Alot of new releases have the original language, and have better subtitles (gramatically and structure wise). Anime releasing studios are pretty good, most Japanese anime are relases with only 2 episodes per volume. Americans usualy have 3 to 5 episodes per volume. A lot of them have pretty good engish tracks (save releases form Funimation and ADV "red necks tend to like ADV though"), which is an added bonus.

[aka Wombat]

Without region coding, I would miss jumping through hoops.