Lies, Damn Lies

Region 2

I may have said this before (I should make a list), but the DVD makers hate region 2. I read of DVDs, such as the Princess Bride Special Edition, which is packed full of special features being released in the US in 2001. I beg for Dogma to finally have some special features added to it, as it and all other Kevin Smith movies do in the USA. I hope that possibly they might finally consider matching the standards of Asian Kill Bill DVD's over here.

Thing is, they are missing out. I am not about to buy vanilla DVD disks of those films, even though I desperately want to buy them. Thing is, I have many of these things on video, or I can just watch my friends' (who were foolish enough to buy the early versions of Kill Bill) copies. But if special editions came out I would snap them up. I don't understand why exactly they do this- surely taking out the regions would encourage imports, which would encourage profits. What the hell is wrong with that? I suppose UK DVD manafacturers don't want the market flooded with cheaper US DVDs, but that is capitalism for ya. I mean, I'm not the hugest fan of capitalism at all times, but if we're gonna have the system, we should have it properly. Free trade for all!

Frustratingly they do this with some games too. Final Fantasy Tactics never came out here because of a perceived lack of demand in the European market. A big problem us Brits have is we share our market with the Europeans- us being up for a product is not necessairly enough to get them to make it for us. Damnit.

Of course, I could buy a multi-region DVD player, but that would cost me money. Or I could buy an illegal pirate copy of the DVD, or even download it... but I wouldn't do that, for I am a law abiding citizen.

posted by Mr K @ 3:19 pm