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Final Matrix Set for Synchronous Release

Posted by michael on from the calling-in-sick dept.

sdirector writes "'Warner Bros. has announced that in a whoa-worthy bit of synchronicity The Matrix Revolutions, the concluding chapter in the Wachowski brothers' hit sci-fi trilogy, will be released simultaneously in nearly 70 countries.'"

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  1. Re:Cool! by MImeKillEr · · Score: 2, Informative

    They don't have Episodes IV, V and VI on DVD.

    I have the boxed set of VHS tapes from the original three, and only because they were a gift. They're the digitally-remastered (gold box) set.

    I have a couple of friends who pounced on the 1st box set that came out. I tried to warn them, knowing they'd release another set that had been digitially-remastered.

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  2. Re:In related news... by kaellinn18 · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's actually "Be sure to drink your Ovaltine," but I know what you're referring to. :-)

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  3. Re:Synchronized Release DVD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    There are two main reasons for region coding DVDs:

    1) It keeps the SE asian priates from selling their wares in the US.

    2) It allows for price control between markets. If imports were freely allowed, worldwide market pressure would make a given DVD cost the same everywhere. With region encoding you can charge $20 for a disc in the US where people can afford it, but only, say, $10 in Africa where the per capita income is less.

  4. No one will be calling in sick by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Losers like that don't have jobs.

  5. Re:In related news... by Delirium+Tremens · · Score: 2, Informative
    It says:
    The machine turns, turns and must keep on turning -- for ever. It is death if it stands still. A thousand millions scrabbled the crust of the earth. The wheels began to turn. In a hundred and fifty years there were two thousand millions. Stop all the wheels. In a hundred and fifty weeks there are once more only a thousand millions; a thousand thousand thousand men and women have starved to death.

    Note that this is a loosy binary-to-ascii translations because I translated the token 10010110 as ' -- ' instead of an actual long horizontal dash.
    Also, I actually only translated a little past the first sentence, and then the last few words. I googled the rest out.
    It turns out that this is an excerpt from Chapter Three of the Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.