Posted by Niall Leonard on 01/12/06 11:30

On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 07:54:27 -0000, "Fred Finisterre"
<finisterre@gmail.com> wrote:

>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4598200.stm
>
>WTF! Can you believe that professional DVD watchers wouldn't have
>multi-region DVD players?
>
>Fred.
>
Bafta members are not professional DVD watchers, they are filmmakers
and actors, with the same ratio of anoraks to non-techheads as the
general population. Besides, it's not that their regular players
weren't region-free, it's that the special players they got to watch
the screener DVDs, that have customised copy protection, weren't
region-free. Hacking those players would be a bit more involved than
hitting a few codes on the remote.

having said all that, yes, region protection sucks, and it's just
another example of the studios shooting themselves in the wallet.

nl

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