Comment Re:Who cares? (Score 1) 253
But you can walk into any ethnic store and get a newspaper with DVD movie (very popular in europe right now) and it won't play on your region 0 DVD player.
Try explaining this to my parents who just plain don't care that the disc is region coded. They expect to see a movie. Afterall it is a DVD, right? They have a DVD player, right? So why can't they play their content.
Given this, the whole Blu/HD battle is silly since most consumers won't care for either if they can't just go to the store and buy any movie. Now they have to know the format they want, which disc type. Don't even get me started about 'gift' movies... That's a whole new ballgame. Think 8track vs. cassette.
Try explaining this to my parents who just plain don't care that the disc is region coded. They expect to see a movie. Afterall it is a DVD, right? They have a DVD player, right? So why can't they play their content.
Given this, the whole Blu/HD battle is silly since most consumers won't care for either if they can't just go to the store and buy any movie. Now they have to know the format they want, which disc type. Don't even get me started about 'gift' movies... That's a whole new ballgame. Think 8track vs. cassette.
