From: Emanuel Brown (epbrown01_at_att.net)
Date: Fri Oct 01 1999 - 06:33:25 EDT
On Thu, 30 Sep 1999 19:37:54 -0700, Juan-Carlos Lerman
<jclerman_at_netzero.net> wrote:
>If book publishers would have divided the world in regions and
>would have required that we use special glasses to read only the
>books printed for one specific region, they would have been
>called unethical (or worse).
As someone who recently crossed the 200 discs mark on DVDs, I have to
confess that I've never understood the attitudes against region-coding. It
seems to me that it's perfectly sensible for the studios to not want a film
released on DVD in a country before it's reached theaters there - it would
be cutting into some of their own sales in various markets. I'm almost as
inconvenienced as anyone else by this (I've got a list of films that
haven't been released for region one that I'd love to own, but my Pioneer
DVL-909 can be modified to play discs from any region so I have the option
of viewing them), but I don't see it as something to get indignant about.
And the analogy between books and film is invalid because of the
simultaneous release factor. In most cases of English-language books, they
are released pretty much the same time everywhere; non-English books
already have a form of region-coding, in that you have to learn the
language the author wrote the book in.
epbrown
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