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by ben_tilly
10/9/02 6:55:03 PM
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New Actually the MPAA is telling the truth
They do stagger releases like that for a number of reasons. (Film costs a lot. Revenues from one area pay advertising in the next. And so on.)

But they feel that if the system is there anyways, why not take full advantage of it...?

Cheers,
Ben
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- [link|http://www.nationalinterest.org/issues/58/Mead.html|Walter Mead]
Post #56,130
by static
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10/11/02 1:20:58 AM
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New Also.
The movie houses often have diverse distributors in different countries. etc. Region codes pander to that, too. It's just that they don't seem to see the problem in not releasing a title in one region and then trying to forbid the same title from a different region from working.

Wade.

"Ah. One of the difficult questions."
     DVD Region codes - (tuberculosis) - (5) - Oct. 8, 2002, 06:26:50 AM EDT
         They were never popular. - (static) - (1) - Oct. 9, 2002, 01:12:26 AM EDT
             it's not that we ignore it - (SpiceWare) - Oct. 9, 2002, 03:52:18 PM EDT
         Region Codes - (SpiceWare) - (2) - Oct. 9, 2002, 04:11:28 PM EDT
             Actually the MPAA is telling the truth - (ben_tilly) - (1) - Oct. 9, 2002, 06:55:03 PM EDT
                 Also. - (static) - Oct. 11, 2002, 01:20:58 AM EDT

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