fetch fox - October 6, 2010, 12:40am

As you say Ard Vijn, it makes no sense that criterion still region code their releases, at least from the facts presented here. I am curious to what the real reason is.

 
HD-release rights are now often sold separately, and by region. My guess is international HD-rights for these titles are just too expensive to be economically feasible for Criterion so they have to settle for just region-A. Or maybe the region-B (Europe, Africa, Australia) rights are in someone elses hands already.
 
I’m sure Criterion isn’t just doing this to piss me off.
However, it still SUCKS!

Ard Vijn - October 6, 2010, 1:21am

HD-release rights are now often sold separately, and by region. My guess is international HD-rights for these titles are just too expensive to be economically feasible for Criterion so they have to settle for just region-A. Or maybe the region-B (Europe, Africa, Australia) rights are in someone elses hands already.
 
I’m sure Criterion isn’t just doing this to piss me off.
However, it still SUCKS!

I wouldn’t have thought that too expensive for them, but it’s certainly a possibility. Though with their exceptional releases, one would think that they would try (and they might have) to get their releases out to a broader market through region-free coding.

No, off course they are! Criterion hates us Europeans