Ken, can you confirm that these are exclusive to the format because of the studio or because of the distributor?

As you are probably aware that in Europe, many titles are distributed by a different distributor than other regions so what is exclusive to a format in one region may be available on another format in another region. So titles that are region free can be purchased from a different region if the title is not available on that format in the home region.

I don't have any specific examples, but I believe that Terminator is one such example - Blu-ray in US, HD DVD in Europe.

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