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Originally Posted by Mojo  This whole thing really is a shame. I would have thought with the advent of illegal downloads etc companies would be trying to increase the sales of Blu-rays by making them more accessable to everyone, thus counteracting illegal sales.
I've no interest in downloads or buying copies off some bloke in the pub - I'd rather have the best legal copies available. And to do that I want to play them on the best Blu-ray player I can afford. I may be wrong, but I imagine a lot of these multi region Blu-ray players aren't exactly built to last, so I don't want to invest in one that ends up being a bad buy. And to 'upgrade' my Sony player will cost about £200, so that can piss off.
Why don't these companies see past short term profits for long term gains? Or is it just me? |
Completely agree. It's this locked region, backwards thinking that got DVD piracy going in the first place.
Personally I want my DVDs nice and legal from companies like Arrow. Locking into a region just keeps some people from buying and others sends them to some site to download the thing.
You'd think with wanting to truly get blu-ray over as the next format the first thing to do would be to get rid of the region lock.