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Forums - General Discussion - 199 Toshiba A3 player with 10 free movies deal is back on...

This time at Amazon...

http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=amb_link_5902742_1?ie=UTF8&docId=1000167901&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=hero-quick-promo&pf_rd_r=10GR57FJHCJ007ZXRA8F&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_p=330753901&pf_rd_i=B000U62N1S

Note that it is Bourne plus 300 in box, 5 free mail-in plus 3 from a select list of titles (mostly crap) from the Amazon store.  If it was ANY title 35 or less like BB did, I'd be ordering right now...

Sheesh, I'm still waiting... 



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if they were DVD region free, I would really think about importing one..



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They include pretty good movies too... impressive! I wish this deal was in Canada....



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Wow, some great titles on the list, unlike many free movie promotions.

@Vengi:

Well, you're in luck, as they are indeed region free!



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Great! Going to do some detailed research now...



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This deal must be selling well on Amazon as it is in the number four spot of top sellers. I really want to see all studios go format neutral so I can just get a cheap player and get my disk on whatever format is cheaper or has better features...



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Vengi said:
if they were DVD region free, I would really think about importing one..

 Umm, HD DVD has no region encoding.



The region-free thing was a big mistake on HD-DVDs part. Not to spam the thread, but studios prefer region encoding b/c it makes things easier for DVD pirates to make fake DVDs and they usually put a lot of movies for HD-DVD out later than BD as a result, for the studios that are neutral anyway. 

Again all of these security things might not seem to matter much to the consumer, but as a consumer you should want them, because consumers will ultimately have to pay more for their movies if a lot of pirating goes on.



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ProfDallas said:
The region-free thing was a big mistake on HD-DVDs part. Not to spam the thread, but studios prefer region encoding b/c it makes things easier for DVD pirates to make fake DVDs and they usually put a lot of movies for HD-DVD out later than BD as a result, for the studios that are neutral anyway.

Again all of these security things might not seem to matter much to the consumer, but as a consumer you should want them, because consumers will ultimately have to pay more for their movies if a lot of pirating goes on.

Region encoding is one of the biggest farces foisted on consumers ever.  It has nothing to do with pirating and everything to do with controlling prices/distribution within a region.  The reason an HD DVD might be delayed is because a movie may still be in theatres internationally when the DVD is release, so they don't want people to import it.  It has nothing to do with piracy.  At least get your facts straight.

To say this is bad for consumers is just beyond ridiculous.  You've taken Blu-ray fanboyism to a new level.  The best way for consumer to get rid of region encoding forever is to support HD DVD over Blu-ray.



Why is region free a mistake? Why should consumers have to pay more for movies when pirating goes on? And why should we have to deal with draconian measures to stop pirating? This is yet another case that punishes the masses for the few law breakers. A simple copy protection scheme that keeps a DVD from being burned to another copy is all that is necessary. Software that is designed to crack or bypass such copy protection should be made illegal and anyone caught with the software or illegal copies should be punished. The end. If I'm buying my movies legit, there should be no consequences for me, the legal owner...

Oh, and BTW, here is the page on Amazon:

http://amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/electronics/ref=sv_etk_ce_av__1/103-9857581-7310201



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