North America Blu ray owners getting second class treatment.

Beowulf release date March 17th-----UK
Sweeny Todd release date May 19th------UK
Braveheart, yes Braveheart April 8th------FR
Independence Day released March 4th----UK
DUNE release day April 10th-----UK

....and this list goes on.
http://www.releaselists.com/BLURAYInternational.html

By the way it seems alot of these movies maybe region coded. This is one point I must say that HDDVD had a appealing advantage. NO REGION CODING.

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[Post edited by tony1569 on Mar 10, 2008]

Yes, it really is sad that we have to deal with region codes in 2008 when the term "global market" is being used more than "hello" in some parts of the world.

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By the way it seems alot of these movies maybe region coded. This is one point I must say that HDDVD had a appealing advantage. NO REGION CODING.

It seems they forgot the "1" in Region 1 comes before "2"! Not fair.

I normally have nothing against region coding, provided of course we get them first

haha. agreed.

althou i want more sales. i dont buy anything unless my rewards come in.

Well as far as Beowulf that's due to the fact that WB has distribution rights overseas and Paramount has distribution rights domestically.

Region Coding... At least HD DVD had one thing right.

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Region Coding... At least HD DVD had one thing right.

Actually HD DVD as a product had pretty much everything done right....It was the promotions/advertising that was the problem.

The Transformers on Japanese Blu ray.
http://xploitedcinema.com/catalog/transformers-movie-bluray-p-13493.html

That's just the old animated Transformers though.

Hoodaguy, you were the first fish I caught with that hook. Yea it's the old one, but IMO the best one.

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That's just the old animated Transformers though.

I would say more like: "The original, the one and only..." he he

Well that...sucks. I desperately hope Paramount release Braveheart here sooner than later. Region free-ness was probably the best thing I liked about HD-DVD, so I guess this serves people right for picking the non-consumer friendly format