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Well my plan was anyway to get a small HDTV and a region free blu-ray player for my room anyway, so if one of the Region B companies decide to get it region blocked, won't affect me by then (hopefully).
 
Joshawott said:
ConanThe3rd said:
Well, untill Manga bollocks it up and it gets A'd like FMA:B.
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Why did Manga UK do that again anyways? To stop people getting the blu-rays from America because they cancelled?
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Well, the locking only started happening when Manga cancelled the Blu Ray version so, well, the gun is smoking and it's in thier hands.
 
ConanThe3rd said:
Joshawott said:
ConanThe3rd said:
Well, untill Manga bollocks it up and it gets A'd like FMA:B.
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Why did Manga UK do that again anyways? To stop people getting the blu-rays from America because they cancelled?
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Well, the locking only started happening when Manga cancelled the Blu Ray version so, well, the gun is smoking and it's in thier hands.
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FUNi don't have UK rights for FMA:B, however they were authoring the discs for Manga. My supposition is that it was easier/cheaper for them to make one AB master than two different ones for A and B. Once they stopped authoring for Manga they were no longer authorised to include region B.
 
How weird, you'd think it would still make sense to keep region B on there in case Manga went ahead with an eventual complete series set, but if the arrangement was that complicated to begin with, maybe not. I guess we'll never know for sure what the logic was since nobody involved has any reason to want to tell us ^^;

The whole region thing has become a pet hate since it's such a colossal waste of resources for cash-starved anime companies to be making their separate masters in the first place and makes no logical sense when Japan and America are the same region anyway. I don't see how physical media as a format can survive if major changes aren't made to streamline the process until we have one disc for each language cluster.

R
 
Rui said:
The whole region thing has become a pet hate since it's such a colossal waste of resources for cash-starved anime companies to be making their separate masters in the first place and makes no logical sense when Japan and America are the same region anyway. I don't see how physical media as a format can survive if major changes aren't made to streamline the process until we have one disc for each language cluster.

R
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Here here! *raises a toast*

Region blocking is something I absolutely despise. While it may work for major Hollywood studios (apparently >>), for something as niche as anime, it really does the industry no favours.
 
Rui said:
How weird, you'd think it would still make sense to keep region B on there in case Manga went ahead with an eventual complete series set, but if the arrangement was that complicated to begin with, maybe not. I guess we'll never know for sure what the logic was since nobody involved has any reason to want to tell us ^^;

The whole region thing has become a pet hate since it's such a colossal waste of resources for cash-starved anime companies to be making their separate masters in the first place and makes no logical sense when Japan and America are the same region anyway. I don't see how physical media as a format can survive if major changes aren't made to streamline the process until we have one disc for each language cluster.

R
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I thought WE were the same region as japan, not the US. For DVD anyway, both region 2 no? Japan and US use NTSC rather than PAL but that's not the same thing.
 
Joshawott: The thing I don't get is that the big Hollywood companies seem to release a lot of their stuff region free! Harry Potter is region free, supposedly, and Casino Royale is the only UK blu-ray I own because that's region free too. I don't get it. I'm happy to buy local for blu-ray but only if it's region free. Anything else can get stuffed as I take it as implicit support of the regioning disaster :/

Sparrowsabre7: We are the same region for DVDs (but semi-locked out when people have old equipment due to video formats) but for blu-ray Japan is with America for some bewildering reason. Given how cheap things are in America it makes a mockery of forcing us to region lock, especially since we speak the same language they do.

R
 
Sparrowsabre7 said:
Rui said:
How weird, you'd think it would still make sense to keep region B on there in case Manga went ahead with an eventual complete series set, but if the arrangement was that complicated to begin with, maybe not. I guess we'll never know for sure what the logic was since nobody involved has any reason to want to tell us ^^;

The whole region thing has become a pet hate since it's such a colossal waste of resources for cash-starved anime companies to be making their separate masters in the first place and makes no logical sense when Japan and America are the same region anyway. I don't see how physical media as a format can survive if major changes aren't made to streamline the process until we have one disc for each language cluster.

R
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I thought WE were the same region as japan, not the US. For DVD anyway, both region 2 no? Japan and US use NTSC rather than PAL but that's not the same thing.
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We do share the same DVD region as Japan (2), and America shares Blu-Ray region with Japan (A).
 
It's the ******** rights issues that are the problem. Aniplex USA don't lock their BDs because a) the US and Japan share the same region so there'd be no point; and b) they completely own the rights to the shows they distribute in the US so they aren't obliged to lock any particular region out.

I'm also confused about Hollywood's approach to region-free BDs when they locked everything (or near enough) on DVD.
 
Rui said:
Joshawott: The thing I don't get is that the big Hollywood companies seem to release a lot of their stuff region free! Harry Potter is region free, supposedly, and Casino Royale is the only UK blu-ray I own because that's region free too. I don't get it. I'm happy to buy local for blu-ray but only if it's region free. Anything else can get stuffed as I take it as implicit support of the regioning disaster :/

R
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Remember how J.K. Rowling said all Harry Potter actors had to be from the UK? I decided long ago that if any company wants to make a movie of any book I write in the future, any home media releases have to be religion locked. If I have one demand, it will probably be that.

Also, wouldn't it be cheaper to just author the discs as one region, and just print off different labels for each region (so titles are in that country's language, certification etc).

fabricatedlunatic said:
It's the ******** rights issues that are the problem. Aniplex USA don't lock their BDs because a) the US and Japan share the same region so there'd be no point; and b) they completely own the rights to the shows they distribute in the US so they aren't obliged to lock any particular region out. .
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Which is why I jumped for joy when I found out I could get the Madoka BDs.
 
Ryo Chan said:
this will cheer up manga, Fairy Tails Blurays will be AB so they will run on region 2 bluray players
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I'm now really tempted to buy that then i remember my xbox wont be able to play the dvd's since its a combo pack and i dont have my bluray player in my room :roll:
 
Does anyone know the winners of the NEO Awards? I can't find a copy of the magazine so I was wondering if anyone else on the forum knew.
 
I suppose this is the best place...

While looking through my Amazon wishlist I noticed that The Tatami Galaxy has been pushed back from 21st November to 26th December. Checked Play.com and HMV and both have the new date.
 
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