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In Reply to: Re: native resolution posted by David Aiken on January 21, 2007 at 21:47:51:
It's interesting to hear about what's going on in other countries. One can very easily get caught up in their part of the world and mistake it for the "whole" world.If I were you, I'd check out what "regions" Australia is included in for the Blu-ray format. The restrictions aren't as strict as they were for DVD (yes, I know there are ways around this) and most consumers may find the new areas more to their liking. Then again, I'm sure there's quite a few that would rather there just be one region.
In the US, Universal is the only studio not supporting Blu-ray. However, that's not going to last much longer. There are some things happening in Japan right now that may give clues as to their intentions in the US (96% of the Japanese HD optical market is Blu-ray based). I'll give them the benefit of the doubt and say that they'll remain HD DVD exclusive in the US through 2007. After that, they'll either support separate Blu-ray releases or use Warner Bros' combo HD DVD/Blu-ray disc (they call it TotalHD) if Warner Bros can actually get it off the ground. Of course, depending on the March launch in Europe of the PS3, they may decide to cave even sooner. That's what I'd prefer, because Universal is my 2nd favorite studio (FOX is 1st). No use dragging out the inevitable...
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Interesting. I thought I'd seen a comment somewhere here that the Blu-ray discs in Australia were identical to the US discs. This would seem to indicate that they aren't quite identical, though I think that comment was meant in relation to video format and it's certainly true in that respect.The decision regarding multi-zone access on players here in Australia was initially a court decision and it revolved around the right of users to be able to freely play discs from other zones that were legally obtained. I would assume the principle of that decision applied also in relation to Blu-ray discs. I wonder whether it's possible to make a Blu-ray disc play discs from all zones.
David Aiken
While there are now zones for Blu-ray, it's up to the studio to determine if they wat to enforce restrictions in a certain zone. If they decide that they want every zone to have access to that movie, it's up to them. If they only want a 1 zone or 2 zone pressing. that's how they'll do it.I don't know the details, but I believe after 1 year of release (the disc, not the movie) if there are more pressings of that movie it will be an all-zone pressing (ie, the studio cannot specify pressings after 1 year to restrict any zone).
Well, all of that sounds a lot more reasonable than the situation with normal DVDs where the zone system genuinely works against the customer.I bought a copy of Tarkovsky's "Solaris" on a local, zone 4 DVD late last year when it was finally released here. It was the first local DVD release of the film and that release could hardly impact on the film release since I saw the film on it's release here in Australia around 30 years ago, and a few times after that. In the US there were at least 2 releases of the film available yet here there were none. If the zone system really did anything to protect the interests of the copyright holder in such cases, I could find some reason to support it, but it isn't protecting the interests of the copyright holder in such cases. It works against them by limiting sales. A totally hopeless situation for the prospective customer and a stupid one for the copyright holder.
Making things difficult for the prospective customer can rarely, if ever, be a sensible decision and I don't t hink it's a sensible one here.
David Aiken
G'day,It is my understanding that here in Australia the Panasonic Blu-Ray is region 4 only (I don’t know the regions for the Samsung players) AND the Toshiba HD-DVD is region free.
The standard DVD players here are region free. Qualification: The 6 or 7 DVD players I have are region free (sourced from Australia) but I can’t say for sure if “all” DVD players here are region free. (5 or 6 years ago they were all region 4)
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With Blu-ray, there will be 3 regions (A, B and C). The players will respect the current DVD region coding, but Blu-ray discs have relaxed restrictions.Region A:
- North America
- Central America
- South America
- Korea
- Japan
- South East AsiaRegion B:
- Europe
- Middle East
- Africa
- Australia
- New ZealandRegion C:
- Russia
- India
- China
- Rest of World
Can't remember where I saw the information I mentioned. I need to start bookmarking interesting things a bit more often.David Aiken
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