[Lynk Former]

We have region 4 simply because it's a standard of DVDs that was incorporated into the DVD standard when they were made. In Australia all DVD players come unlocked, or SHOULD be unlocked.

By the way you make it sounds, it's as if we're overlaying subtitles onto film. The idea was to allow flexablity not to disrupt the video permanently. Remember subtitles are overlayed digitally and can be removed at any time simply by not activating them or removing them from whatever media drive is a part of the player.

To be honest I think this would actually HELP Anime Studios, why? Well it allows people like me to buy a legitimate copy of an anime instead of download a copy from the internet. If I was an anime studio, I would be very happy with that seeing as someone is actually BUYING my work rather than ripping it off from the net.

In terms of western sales, ADV has no real power over their anime releases the Japanese studios do. I've been trying to tell people this for a long time but they seem to forgot this.

I'll cut to the point, similar sorts of flexability options are going to be popping up in future media technology. There is a clear advantage in this because it allows flexability. Similar doubts were had about MP3s but now companies embrace MP3s.

It's not re-enginnering, it's overlaying. It's a read-only file overlayed with an extra that the user chooses to overlay. As I said before, this sort of thing is being implemented in future media so the idea of this specific thing isn't so far out.



In the end what you need to understand is this is a simple idea, not a perfect drawn up plan proposed to those who decides these things. When you come down to it, it is possible, especially with future tech in mind and the trends to allow media to be flexable much in the manner I have suggested.