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I sympathized, but offered him a solution – buy a cheap region free DVD player.For $50 or less you can get a machine that will play any DVD, regardless of region. Here are my thoughts on the ...

The "DVD Forum Japan Conference 2005" is being held in Japan today, and because of the time difference, it's already over. The primary topic of the meeting was, as expected, HD DVD. Plenty of ...

Region codes are digital fences that divide the world into six pieces, erected by the US-based DVD Copy Control Association to protect publishers and distributors.

There are DVD region disable codes or DVD mod chips which when installed remove the Region Code from many home DVD players. However with RCE, these too are now obsolete.

Electronics manufacturers have to include region coding by law, but many engineers provide hidden unlock codes that enable your DVD player to view DVDs from any region. Enjoy a wider variety of ...

With some DVD and Blu-ray players it's simply a matter of punching in a code to disable region-coding, but apparently not with this model Sony.

We agree that region encoding should be done away with, but mainly because we want to be able to buy DVDs from overseas and be able to watch them without having to track down a region-free DVD player.

Peter Ecke, Technology Corner: Coping with the DVD Dilemma: Region Codes and Copy Protection, Die Unterrichtspraxis / Teaching German, Vol. 38, No. 1 (Spring, 2005), pp. 89-93 ...