Posted by Harry.S at cache-haw.cableinet.co.uk on March 09, 2002 at 17:59:32:
In Reply to: Bad DVD news for Australia/Region 4 posted by fan_from_oz on March 09, 2002 at 17:43:40:
: This means i have to buy this disc from the US, which will cost me around $50AUD instead of around $25AUD locally.
: I don't know why we're getting fucked into having to buy our DVD's in U dollars, but it's sending me broke!
Pan and Scan! Thats a fuckin joke. They dont even treat us that badly in the UK (not that we even have Clerks here), in my experience I would recommend firing up a petition and sending it to the distributor. As we often get shat on here on R2 land we sometimes get a campaign going, it rarely alters that particular release but it does make the distributor think twice before releasing another crap disc. I just dont understand why they have changed the aspect ratio, you may as well be watching on VHS!
Seems you R4 guys are even worse off than us R2 UK folk, at least we get cheap R4 discs (to import R4 discs it costs about £10 ($7US) per disc) and reasonably priced R1 discs (cost us about £17 ($12US)per disc)
Of course you do get Warner Bros. and New Line releases in proper Amarays, not those crappy Cardboard snapper cases we get!