How can the region coding issue be moot if it means that supposedly 'Blu-ray exclusive titles' are nothing of the sort and are available on HD DVD - instead of not at all?
Or that it allows HD DVD owners to take advantage of currency movements - a good example would be my own experience of the HD DVD Blade Runner The Final Cut release. I bought the 5 disc US edition for the same price (delivered inc taxes) for within pennies of the 2 disc UK edition?
Ditto the recent Amazon BOGO, 2 HD DVDs for $20!? Thank you very much and may I have another!
There's nothing moot about it at all.
Those are very real and tangible benefits that I as a paying customer value very highly.
No kidding. For a non catalog title, blu-ray can get the (region locked) release earlier, while the corresponding HD-DVD release is delayed until the studio is ready to release it across all regions. I never mentioned exclusivity, just who gets it first. I guess you could call that temporary exclusivity but I could care less about if it's only a matter of a few months between regions. The blu-ray version of the US 5 disc release of Blade Runner Final Cut is also region free and I too took advantage of the weak dollar and picked it up instead of the European 2 disc edition.
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@ maxpower
You've got to be kidding.
How can the region coding issue be moot if it means that supposedly 'Blu-ray exclusive titles' are nothing of the sort and are available on HD DVD - instead of not at all?
Or that it allows HD DVD owners to take advantage of currency movements - a good example would be my own experience of the HD DVD Blade Runner The Final Cut release.
I bought the 5 disc US edition for the same price (delivered inc taxes) for within pennies of the 2 disc UK edition?
Ditto the recent Amazon BOGO, 2 HD DVDs for $20!?
Thank you very much and may I have another!
There's nothing moot about it at all.
Those are very real and tangible benefits that I as a paying customer value very highly.
No kidding. For a non catalog title, blu-ray can get the (region locked) release earlier, while the corresponding HD-DVD release is delayed until the studio is ready to release it across all regions. I never mentioned exclusivity, just who gets it first. I guess you could call that temporary exclusivity but I could care less about if it's only a matter of a few months between regions.
The blu-ray version of the US 5 disc release of Blade Runner Final Cut is also region free and I too took advantage of the weak dollar and picked it up instead of the European 2 disc edition.