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I haven't bought any books "out of market" but I've bought a couple DVDs that weren't available in the U.S. (my DVD player can be set to be region free). "Man From Snowy River" (1 & 2) are a couple of my wife's favorite movies. For whatever reason, Walt Disney, who was the U.S. distributor for "Man From Snowy River II" (renamed "Return of the Man from Snow River" by Disney) will not release a wide screen version of the movie. So you've got "Man from Snowy River" in all it's widescreen glory ... and "Return" in Full Screen looking like a VHS the cat drug in from 1985. If you've watched these movies you know the scenery is one of the main features. Meanwhile, in Australia, the original maker of the movie, released a Collector's Set, which was widescreen, digitally cleaned up and which restored some scenes and the original ending of "Snowy River II" (I think the alterations were Disney's in "Return," not the film makers). So I bought the set from Australia. Whom did I harm? The original film maker got paid three times for the same movies (VHS, original DVD set and the new DVD set). Disney wasn't going to get my money for a third time anyhow, because they've changed nothing in the DVD over the years. If this is "morally wrong," – oh well, I'll just have to live with it.
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