On Apr 20, 2007, at 10:55 AM, Bob W wrote: > In any case, to answer your question, the system was developed so that > the publishers could stagger releases, as you've already said, and so > that they could enforce price differences in different regions. There > is no benefit whatsoever to the consumer.
I believe it's also a scam to get around parallel import legislation in many countries. Controlling the distribution channel is very important to media companies (and many others). I seem to recall hearing that it's technically illegal to sell region- locked players in NZ. Mine (purchased quite a long time ago) was region-free out of the box. I've imported a number of DVDs from both the US (region 1) and the UK (region 2) - this is stuff that is either completely unavailable here or is simply cheaper to buy via Amazon. I am consumer, hear me roar. Pity my main TV is currently broken :) - Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
