Re: OT: Season 3 DVDs

["frodoze" <frodoze@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

--- In buffywantswillow@y..., "mudrat_26" <mudrat_26@y...> wrote:
> Apologies if this is a stupid question, but do you guys in the US 
> have multi-zone DVD players? I ask aforementioned stupid question 
> because there has been talk of the government introducing
legislation 
> here in Aus to have them banned, limiting us to region 4 DVDs only - 
> was wondering what the sitch is in other contries.
> 

gidday! mudrat

you know the pollies here talk through their arses ;), I cannot see
how they ban or make mandatory the region coding for each country, it
has nothing to do with copywrite, its something imposed by the movie
companies to control sales in each country, I just bought Star Trek
TNG season2 dvds from Amazon.uk, including airmail it will cost me
AUS$154, thats $50 cheaper than I can buy it here, Paramount will
still make money on this regardless from where I buy it from.

the cheap chinese dvd players have made the "Brand" companies sit up
and take notice, Sony and Panasonic sell machines that can be made
region free with a cd or unlock code from the remote, and chip modding
is available for most dvd players on the market, and there nothing
illegal about it so long as it doesn't remove macrovision.

maybe we should take note from NZ, region coding is illegal there, a
dvd player cannot be sold there unless its region free

cheers

dAz