It's VHS vs. Beta all over again, but worse

Re:It's VHS vs. Beta all over again, but worse by autokad on Sunday April 07, 2019 @02:06PM (#19598646)

I'm not speaking of dvds specifically, but products in general including books, medicine, etc.

they still 'need' regions because they generally charge US customers more. more often then not, US has to pay cost + IP costs + margin, where as people in say India pay cost + margin.

I think this remains true for dvd/movies. Think about it, I heard the cost of a movie ticket for a hollywood movie is about 1$ in pakistan.

I'm in favor of getting rid of regions, and outlawing the practice of making mostly US consumers pay the bill for IP costs illegal, but until that happens they 'need' regions. how else are they going to charge people in china 2$ and people in the US 20$.

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Re:It's VHS vs. Beta all over again, but worse by autokad on Sunday April 07, 2019 @02:40PM (#19598933)

> "Seriously though. Almost every modern country outside the US is charged more for less."

so you mean only europe. but data disagrees with what you said: https://www.businessinsider.com/countries-where-netflix-is-m...

so unkindly, fuck off.

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