calhoun07

Specifically, I am hoping for them to open amazon.au in Australia. I know there are online stores, but to have a good amazon store in region four would be great. Does anybody know?

Damfino

I'm kind of surprised there isn't an Amazon Mexico yet. The Spanish market is huge.

calhoun07

I wouldn't shop there myself, but yeah, that is certainly an untapped market.

wz42

hmmm....isn't the exchange rate really good for dollar to peso? Might make all the deals from Amazon.ca pale in comparasion.

axolotls return

There aren't many R4 encoded DVDs for the Mexican Market. Would be rather foolish for Amazon to do business there. How many people from Mexico have internet access and enough DI to make Amazon profitable????

calhoun07

Well, I was inititally interested in knowing if we'd ever see amazon.au, an Australian amazon store that would specialize in region 4 titles. I don't think that the reply posted was in response to that, but coming up with another idea for the question if any more international stores would be opened.

So, Mexico is region one too? As for would they do business? Well, I don't know about internet access in Mexico, but there are a huge number of Hispanics in America who could benefit from such a store. I just wonder if amazon.com opened such a store, would it be based out of Mexico or out of America?

Lucas

What about Amazon in Austria www.amazon.at ?

Throw another shrimp on the barbie?

axolotls return

I believe Mexico is Region 4, like I posted above. This is all from memory of course and I've talked to someone in Mexico before about this.

axolotls return

R4 NTSC (Mexico) as opposed to R4 PAL (Oz and NZ)

axolotls return

More post padding

Region 4 - Australia, New Zealand, Pacific Islands, Central America, Mexico, South America, and the Caribbean

Also, all my posts were in response to Damfino's post

calhoun07

That seems to cover Germany and Austria.

Hemulen

Bah.. why stick to such modest pipe-dreams..

Instead, why not have Amazon seek to abolish that most stupid of inventions - region coding - and introduce Amazon PAL and Amazon NTSC

otoh I'd be pretty chuffed if Amazon and friends saw fit to open up a region 4 store serving the PAL parts of region 4 - New Zealand and that other place..

Hemulen

pd071

I know at one time there was actual talks about opening up an Amazon center in Australia, but I think at this time that has been pushed pretty far back. Present international centers include the UK, Germany, France, Japan, and Canada. That serves a pretty broad market. I feel like maybe Australia is too alienated...but I am not sure.

Tyler_Durden

But those two video formats have nothing to do with region coding.

Moppy007

I'm in Australia and I'm guessing Amazon feels that the Australian market just isn't big enough... plus, we are very alienated. Australians like to think of themselves as big in technology, but we always seem to get things half a year later than the rest of the world - pretty sad if you ask me.

hardtack

According to the map above, New Zealand does not exist... but apparently there is someone located in Papua New Guinea that owns a DVD player.

regards, Tim...

Gallant Pig

Personally I'm waiting for either Amazon Tanzania or Amazon United Arab Emirates. Amazan Cuba and Amazon Chad would be nice too.

Hemulen

I never said they did.. Rather I was suggesting, albeit in jest, that the formats would make much better dividing lines than the current region.

(consider the current "region 2", which includes both NTSC and PAL countries.. or region 4, which likewise has a mix of PAL and NTSC)

Hemulen