Particularly annoying since Eragon (the movie) is nowhere near as good as Eragon (the book)... !
G On Apr 19, 2007, at 1:38 PM, drew wrote: > <rant mode on> > Many of us folks in the UK that care about the region coding feel > it is > a cynical attempt to make us pay extortionate prices and control the > market instead of allowing a competitive market to develop. For > example, the movie Eragon has recently been release here, the MRP > is 23 > pounds, that is more than 45 bucks! Without region coding, I > believe our > high street prices would be comparable to US prices. > > Fortunately region free players are readily available here, especially > on the cheap units http://preview.tinyurl.com/3yayef hence a large > number of on-line stores sell region 1 DVD's at a huge discount from > high street stores. The region 1 version of Eragon imported from > the US > costs 13 pounds, just a bit more reasonable! > Sadly, it seems the average punter just pays the rip-off price in the > high street and perpetuates the situation. > > IMHO region coding is an immoral attempt to rig the market, and > control > the control it with an iron fist. > <rant mode off> > > Cheers, Andy. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
