I've heard about this, it's something to do with how the EU taxes video cameras. Anything over I believe 30 minutes is a video recorder and not a camera. The taxes are more. So DSLR companies reduced the time to 30 minutes....or 29mins. Nikon is the same way. This is done straigth across the board to all DSLRs...even the DSLR's sold in the states. It's cheaper I guess to limit them all than to only limit half.