ITunes Movie Subtitles in different languages - unavailable

Question

I think this would be a digital rights distribution issue, however my wife who's from Taiwan can rent or purchase a good 90% (from what I can tell) of the content we get on the Australian iTunes store, however there are three notable differences...
1) They get all the international content too - I admit, I would never really have preferred to listen to a song in a different language before meeting someone who spoke a different language, but even though my wife speaks Mandarin the iTunes store has Korean, Japanese, Cantonese, etc, plus English / western songs. Although I have found some of the international songs in the Australian store - but we get maybe 5% or less...again, just from my observation.
2) The Movies in the Australian iTunes store come with English Subtitles as standard, and sometimes with German and French. The same movie on the Taiwan store comes with subtitles for; english, french, hebrew, indonesian, malay, mandarin, russian, chinese (both simplified and traditional), thai, turkish, ukrainian, and vietnamese.
3) In Australia, we rent Tangled for $4.99 for the HD version, in Taiwan it's $2.85 for the same HD version
Needless to say, as far as costs go, the differences are huge across music and video clips too. $3.29 for a video clip in Australia, $1.07 for the same clip in Taiwan. Now, some might say it's scale of economies - however I disagree...afterall, the iPhone/ipad/mac's are about the same price here as they are in Taiwan (after money conversion), which makes them almost 3 times more expensive than we have to pay in Australia. I have no idea how they can afford tech over there. Anyway, I don't think Apple can discount the price of hardware - I don't know how much it costs to make an iPhone, but it seems like there's not loads of margin in it perhaps after paying for all the R&D and what-nots.
I also wouldn't think the Music industry is losing money selling tracks at the price they are in Taiwan, so that would just mean they're making an absolute killing in Australia and even the US - yes...it seems some Asian countries pay even less than what those in the US pay. (Call me maybe $2.19 AUS, $1.29 US, $0.70 Taiwan)
What's your thoughts?

Answer 1

Thanks, I left feedback...and I totally understand - what you've mentioned is nothing I haven't already heard before.
But as it was noted on the other thread you linked, this issue should've been resolved via electronic distribution (aside from media licensing), although it appears that I can't see a justification for an Asian country to have all the English content - if we can't get the other content too.
Actually, i'm not even bothered that we can't get Asian films and content, it's more surrounding the question of why the things like subtitles are stripped off our content when it might actually help people who live here to enjoy content available from a legal source. After all Australia is a multicultural hotpot.
By comparison, other Asian countries as used in my example really only have a few immigrants, but most are usually just understanding Asian languages.
I hope that makes sense...
Thanks!