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Now that DVDs are really taking off it seems that people in general are demanding bigger and better films. Just look at some of the films soon to be on DVD, they include titles like Meet The Parents, X-Men, Road Trip...the list goes on!
The time to release onto DVD is much improved since the days of VHS. Which brings me to my next point. The whole Religion encoding is pointless, the Americans get the films weeks before we do, often with extras we just don't get and they are cheaper over there. Did you know that last year the average cinema ticket for the UK costs £7.45 THE HIGHEST IN EUROPE! Other places like France only pay £3.40 on average, us English are being ripped off!
Post your feelings below!
Cheers ppl ALEX
PS Did Dreamcast fail because it couldn't play DVDs, I say yes!
The time to release onto DVD is much improved since the days of VHS. Which brings me to my next point. The whole Religion encoding is pointless, the Americans get the films weeks before we do, often with extras we just don't get and they are cheaper over there. Did you know that last year the average cinema ticket for the UK costs £7.45 THE HIGHEST IN EUROPE! Other places like France only pay £3.40 on average, us English are being ripped off!
Post your feelings below!
Cheers ppl ALEX
PS Did Dreamcast fail because it couldn't play DVDs, I say yes!
I'd love to know where that statistic came from. No way can that be accurate.
I know people who live in some of the most expensive parts of the country and they don't pay more than that (which they would have to to give an average).
I think it's more likely that UK cinema goers pay UP TO £7.45
By the way, it's REGION coding, not religion coding. It's not pointless if it worked (at least not from the film companies point of view) but the truth is it doesn't. I've had X-Men and Road Trip for months and Meet The Parents is in the post as we speak. I've also paid less than I would have done in the evil HMV. The Watcher just out at cinema? I nearly bought it last week!
The Dreamcast fail because it can't play DVDs? That must rank as one of the most amazingly stupid comments ever posted here! Even when it was £150 you could buy a Dreamcast and a really good DVD player (not the Encore, although it's decent-ish for the price) for around £350. The extra £50 ill get you a better selection of games and a much better picture quality on your films. Has the PlayStation2 succeeded because it can play DVDs (even at the poor level it does)? No, it's succeeded because of the mass-market public and their blind faith in advertising.
FACT: It's worth noting that, at the time of release in Japan, DVD players were new technology there and were very expensive (more so than here). From the number of PS2 consoles and games sold in relation to the number of DVDs it was realised that the majority of Japanese punters were buying PS2s to use as cheap DVD players and not primarily as a games machine (if at all).
I know people who live in some of the most expensive parts of the country and they don't pay more than that (which they would have to to give an average).
I think it's more likely that UK cinema goers pay UP TO £7.45
By the way, it's REGION coding, not religion coding. It's not pointless if it worked (at least not from the film companies point of view) but the truth is it doesn't. I've had X-Men and Road Trip for months and Meet The Parents is in the post as we speak. I've also paid less than I would have done in the evil HMV. The Watcher just out at cinema? I nearly bought it last week!
The Dreamcast fail because it can't play DVDs? That must rank as one of the most amazingly stupid comments ever posted here! Even when it was £150 you could buy a Dreamcast and a really good DVD player (not the Encore, although it's decent-ish for the price) for around £350. The extra £50 ill get you a better selection of games and a much better picture quality on your films. Has the PlayStation2 succeeded because it can play DVDs (even at the poor level it does)? No, it's succeeded because of the mass-market public and their blind faith in advertising.
FACT: It's worth noting that, at the time of release in Japan, DVD players were new technology there and were very expensive (more so than here). From the number of PS2 consoles and games sold in relation to the number of DVDs it was realised that the majority of Japanese punters were buying PS2s to use as cheap DVD players and not primarily as a games machine (if at all).
Excuse me but you said the UK's average cinema ticket was £7 (approx.) why did you say the ENGLISH were being ripped off....it would be EVERYONE in the UK that was being ripped off and not just the English. However in Scotland cinema tickets aren't anymore expensive than £3.50 here. So somewhere people are majorly being ripped off!!
The only place I've ever seen Cinema tickets for around £7 is Leciester Square....
Now that DVDs are really taking off it seems that people in general are demanding bigger and better films. Just look at some of the films soon to be on DVD, they include titles like Meet The Parents, X-Men, Road Trip...the list goes on!
The time to release onto DVD is much improved since the days of VHS. Which brings me to my next point. The whole Religion encoding is pointless, the Americans get the films weeks before we do, often with extras we just don't get and they are cheaper over there. Did you know that last year the average cinema ticket for the UK costs £7.45 THE HIGHEST IN EUROPE! Other places like France only pay £3.40 on average, us English are being ripped off!
Post your feelings below!
Cheers ppl ALEX
PS Did Dreamcast fail because it couldn't play DVDs, I say yes!
The time to release onto DVD is much improved since the days of VHS. Which brings me to my next point. The whole Religion encoding is pointless, the Americans get the films weeks before we do, often with extras we just don't get and they are cheaper over there. Did you know that last year the average cinema ticket for the UK costs £7.45 THE HIGHEST IN EUROPE! Other places like France only pay £3.40 on average, us English are being ripped off!
Post your feelings below!
Cheers ppl ALEX
PS Did Dreamcast fail because it couldn't play DVDs, I say yes!