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Bawolski@aol.com
Bawolski@aol.com
Fri, 13 Jun 2003 20:53:00 EDT
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In a message dated 6/13/2003 5:49:14 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
julian@monkeyfamily.freeserve.co.uk writes:
> Arrggghh! Might have to look into getting my player converted! This would
> be strange though. If they are not going to release elsewhere why encode to
> region 4 only. It only makes sense to do this when you are wanting to release
> the same thing to different markets at different costs. Surely that was the
> reason for creating the region coding in the first place. If Sony keep it
> region 4 it means they will miss out on a LOT of sales! Mark Seymour's live at the
> Basement DVD and the last Midnight Oil DVD were both multi-region...and I'm
> sure they would have sold a lot more copies because of it!
>
It's very possible that the disc will be all regions, like the 20,000 Watt
DVD.
I was just speculating that there is the possiblility that it would be a
region 4
only disc. According to Whammo the format and region encoding are "TBA."
And who knows, maybe it will be released worldwide.
Mike
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It's very possible that the disc will be all regions, like the 20,000 Watt D=
VD. <BR>
I was just speculating that there is the possiblility that it would be a reg=
ion 4<BR>
only disc. According to Whammo the format and region encoding are "TBA=
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And who knows, maybe it will be released worldwide.<BR>
Mike<BR>
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