Interdimensional
Supporting Actor
- Joined
- Mar 21, 2015
- Messages
- 540
- Real Name
- Ed
What does Kino have against the rest of the world? They never seem to release region-free Blu-Rays. What have we done to upset them?
I know region-free players are available but that's not the point. Most contemporary 3D Blu-rays appeat to be region-free so what's the problem with the older movies?
When a studio releases the disc themselves (which is generally the case with new releases), they will often leave it region-free. It makes their life easier, because the same disc will often be just repackaged from one region to the next. Sometimes these discs have 20 different languages on them.
When a studio licenses a film to a label like Kino, they typically license rights for just one region, thus region locking. It's not just Kino, look at any UK label that licenses films and see how many of them are region-locked.