Huh, you should've grabbed the DVD's as I've never had much trouble with English-language R1 DVDs due to the unofficial factory unlock on all the local (R4) stand-alone DVD players I've got. It's Region A Blu-ray's I'm not sure too on. Then there's the R1,2 DVD PC playback issue's I've been having lately beside the on-the-fly adding of subtitles.
I think you've covered most of the usual suspects.
I didn't have any trouble buying Battlefield 3 PC from amazon...even if it arrived a few days after the local release (it broke street the morning of the midnight release & I was working right next to an EB on that day) & I've got an pre-order there for Mass Effect 3 CE, both of them will arrive quicker to me than the same items ordered from JB Hifi online will, and that's got the shorter distance to come from.
--Rod.H
I think you've covered most of the usual suspects.
I didn't have any trouble buying Battlefield 3 PC from amazon...even if it arrived a few days after the local release (it broke street the morning of the midnight release & I was working right next to an EB on that day) & I've got an pre-order there for Mass Effect 3 CE, both of them will arrive quicker to me than the same items ordered from JB Hifi online will, and that's got the shorter distance to come from.
--Rod.H