HD DVD and Blue Ray Will Have Region-Coding Restrictions |
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If you're looking forward to HD DVD media and players "no region coding" feature, we have some bad news. The DVD Forum's
Steering Committee agreed to form a working group to "develop a
specification and enforcement plan for RPC [Region Protection Coding]
on HD DVD Video, including region map and requirements in consultation
with the studios".If a region-coding scheme for the next-generation optical disc technology is adopted, HD DVD materials purchased in country A cannot be played by an HD DVD machine bought from country B. Current DVDs have the region-coding restriction and most consumers are not happy with it. To get around this they bypass the block by having their players modified or they switch to generic machines from Asian countries that don't impose region restrictions.
Thinking of switching your allegiance to the Blu-ray Disc side? Forget about it! They are already working on an equivalent region coding system for BD discs. In their version, however, the seven world zones will be cut down to three: North and South America and Asia (but not China); Europe and Africa; and Russia, China and everywhere else.
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I doubt games will be region free but I'm getting a wii60 anyway not the PS3 and the wii will be region free (i think)
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PS3 games will have the ability to be "region-free" but the movie studios never said they would. Guess a lot of people had wishful thinking.
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Games however, Sony announced they will not be region encoded. Sony has the right to do this and so they have.
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it would be better if Asia is changed to just japan, then all the *****ing thailand/indonesia/vietnumb/malaysia ***** can go into everywhere else
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are you saying europe are 2nd world countries??! I think you should have respect for europe because lots of the stuff you depend on was invented by pretty much the english and the germans. American wouldnt be so big and succesfull if it wasnt for us english
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Thought Iam thinking hardware manufacturers will find eventually the way to let users turn their system in multi-region ones.
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This really doesnt bother me since im from the USA and so far every movie ive ever wanted to own has been made for my region. Im really not into anime at all and thats the only thing i can think of that might not be made for my region, so its okay with me. It kinda sucks for whoever wants to buy other region movies... but how many movies do you like that arent released in America? I dunno there was this really weird guy who used to be my roommate but then moved out cuz no one liked him, he was all into foreign stuff and thought he was cool just because he didnt like america, so any movies he bought (I.E. lord of the rings) he would buy the japanese dubbed version with a different region coding just to be different. I hope this isnt what everyone else does
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anyway, i just realized not everyone lives in USA, so maybe the issue here is that not all ntsc movies are released in europe, so you have to buy the import dvd AND a ntsc dvd player. is this the case? i just really dont see this being a problem in america
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And we all know that the movies have Region Coding - although there are only 3 codes as opposed to the 4 or so for DVD. (For blu-ray anyway... couldn't care less about HD-DVD)
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