Kevin Johnson wrote:

>Hi,
> 
>I just discovered that I would have to change the region setting in
order to view some dvd's my sister sent me. My drive came by default set to
region1.she's region 2.(uk)
> 
>How come if we live in a global village we have these tribal restrictions?
> 
>Apparently I can change the region 4 times, after which it sticks at
the last one to which it was changed. If it ends up being the wrong one,
your drive is toast!
> 
>Are all drives constructed this way. There is always some guy in Norway
or where ever that figures a way around these things. So Sven are you
listening?
> 
>At imes like this I understand....Going Postal!. Do we realyy need to
be tortured this way?
> 
>Rant off!
> 
>KevinJ.
> 
>
>  
>
There are "region free" drives to avoid this issue. For some drives 
there are firmware upgrades to remove this "money making" feature. A DVD 
can be create region free so that it will play on any DVD player.

The idea behind region control in this way is to avoid someone importing 
a movie from a country where it has already been released into one where 
it (or it's translated version) has not been released.

Cheers/2

Ed.




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