DVD's

Could anyone explain why the UK citizens are subjected to delays when it comes to USA dvd releases?

For example, BOSTON LEGAL, series 2, came out on dvd in the US in November 06 while us poor cousins' have to wait until MARCH 2007 just to get a region 2 disk...

And why oh why are we still limited to REGIONS for god's sake! I could have bought a region 1 dvd and already been a proud owner but I need to make sure my dvd player can do region 1 - which i don't know it does, so i'd need a dvd player or some fix to enable my disk to work ... TOO MUCH HASSLE!

It still doesn't answer the question why do we have to wait? Surely we should have the ability to purchase on DVD the imported TV series the same as any other country, after all they have exported it; there's a whole market to be exploited, unless it's some plot to get the excitement going so we'll buy 2 or 3 copies instead!

how gullible are we? (don't answer that!)