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whatever on 20 November 2007
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ProfDallas said:
whatever said:
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.


 

I really don't see why this theatres/import region that you give is relevant, because most of the time the DVD/BD/HDVD or whatever will come at least 9 months later than when it was shown in theatres anyway. It doesn't make a lot of sense for even international theatres to wait sooo looonnnnggg after the movie comes out in american theatres to still have the movie playing unless they are those budget type of theatres, which won't really get factored into any kind of important decisions anyway.

 

Movies don't get released in all countries simultaneosly.  Sometimes the DVD is already out in the US before the movies is even in theatres in some international markets.

 

From New Line Cinema's

http://www.highdefdigest.com/news/show/958

Although New Line's dual-format support had long been expected, its staggered release of 'Hairspray' on HD DVD came as a surprise. Lasorsa attributed the delay to HD DVD's current lack of region coding.

"Since we sell to independent international distributors, we have to be more sensitive to their release dates than a major studio," Lasorsa added. "But for second-party acquisitions to which we don't have international rights, we will be day-and-date on all three formats."

 

Like I said, has nothing to do with piracy.  And as a consumer, I want to be able to play movies from other "regions" without having to worry about some ridiculous coding scheme.  Consumers have complained about this scheme since its introduction.

The way I look at it, Toshiba/HD DVD listened to the consumer whereas Sony/Blu-ray didn't (or they just listened to the bean counters at the studios).  So I feel that Toshiba/HD DVD deserves the support and Sony/Blu-ray does not.