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Sides · 2012-04-17, 13:59

I am kind of confused about some of the comments in those articles. IIRC there is no difference between a region A or B release, except for the region coding, if the publisher decides to use it. The only issue that sometime happens is, if European pictures that were mastered or shot in 50Hz, for an US those shows have/had to be remastered, but not the other way around. Having said that the PS3 did had issues in the past with blu-ray playback, but those were really just specific PS3 issues.

If I read correctly it is mainly about imports, unlike with DVDs japan and the US have the same region code which makes it tempting for people to import the less expensive US version. But this view is really short sighted, otakus, their main costumers, will buy the limited edition version domestic release anyway, and in some cases they are likely to get all releases they could use/play. It is only the people who won't buy blurays and watch the shows on tv, who would be tempted to import the less expensive version.

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Sides Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Edinburgh Age: 42	I am kind of confused about some of the comments in those articles. IIRC there is no difference between a region A or B release, except for the region coding, if the publisher decides to use it. The only issue that sometime happens is, if European pictures that were mastered or shot in 50Hz, for an US those shows have/had to be remastered, but not the other way around. Having said that the PS3 did had issues in the past with blu-ray playback, but those were really just specific PS3 issues. If I read correctly it is mainly about imports, unlike with DVDs japan and the US have the same region code which makes it tempting for people to import the less expensive US version. But this view is really short sighted, otakus, their main costumers, will buy the limited edition version domestic release anyway, and in some cases they are likely to get all releases they could use/play. It is only the people who won't buy blurays and watch the shows on tv, who would be tempted to import the less expensive version.