Posted by Hosferatu at px4ar.ed.shawcable.net on November 10, 2001 at 05:32:26:
In Reply to: Australia unites for all region DVDs! posted by PretzelFan on November 10, 2001 at 04:42:10:
Regions were created for two reasons only no matter how you look at it.
1) profit, If it weren't for regions i'd order DVD's from all over cuz they are so much cheaper than here.
2)Inconvenience, For a long long time NTSC and PAL were the only 2 real forms of Inconvenience, This troubled the king of the video land, who then said "Conversions Conversions, always bending my will with conversions" he then had a great (horrbile) idea "I shall make a disc, Capable of holding video, and i shall not only make 2 versions of this disc, i shall make 7 regions to it as well. And then i will put stuff on some that the other regions want as well, but they won't get it. That oughtta make enough of them miserable until i can successfuly scheme a scheme to make every video wathcing soul miserable! [Insert maniacle laughter].
There you have it.