http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/27/us-japan-joyous-in-blu-ray-region-1-embrace/ Engadget Comments for US, Japan joyous in Blu-ray Region 1 embrace http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/27/us-japan-joyous-in-blu-ray-region-1-embrace/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/27/us-japan-joyous-in-blu-ray-region-1-embrace/Dec 27th 2005 1:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/12/27/us-japan-joyous-in-blu-ray-region-1-embrace/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/27/us-japan-joyous-in-blu-ray-region-1-embrace/Dec 27th 2005 1:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/12/27/us-japan-joyous-in-blu-ray-region-1-embrace/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/27/us-japan-joyous-in-blu-ray-region-1-embrace/


Here's the list:



Region 1: North America, South America, East Asia except for China (India, Japan, Korea, Thailand, Malaysia etc.)

Region 2: Europe and Africa

Region 3: China, Russia and other countries]]>Dec 27th 2005 1:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/12/27/us-japan-joyous-in-blu-ray-region-1-embrace/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/27/us-japan-joyous-in-blu-ray-region-1-embrace/http://www.screwsline.co.uk/]]>Dec 27th 2005 1:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/12/27/us-japan-joyous-in-blu-ray-region-1-embrace/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/27/us-japan-joyous-in-blu-ray-region-1-embrace/


This settles it for me, Blu-ray is the overall winner in this race, now if Sony would just ease up on the DRM a bit I think HD-DVD will die a well deserved death.]]>Dec 27th 2005 2:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/12/27/us-japan-joyous-in-blu-ray-region-1-embrace/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/27/us-japan-joyous-in-blu-ray-region-1-embrace/Dec 27th 2005 2:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/12/27/us-japan-joyous-in-blu-ray-region-1-embrace/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/27/us-japan-joyous-in-blu-ray-region-1-embrace/Dec 27th 2005 2:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/12/27/us-japan-joyous-in-blu-ray-region-1-embrace/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/27/us-japan-joyous-in-blu-ray-region-1-embrace/
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http://www.dvd.reviewer.co.uk/info/multiregion/



This site has a list of hacks for nearly every player that make it multi-region regardless of what it comes as.



Since it'd be too expensive to create hardware region-coding and then create three versions of the player, or to create different versions of the software, manufacturers just have it as a hidden 'option' - voila, cheap region 2 player becomes a multi-region player worth twice as much.



It's only for DVD at the moment, but I'd be surprised if BR/HD-DVD didn't follow.



Jamie]]>Dec 27th 2005 2:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/12/27/us-japan-joyous-in-blu-ray-region-1-embrace/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/27/us-japan-joyous-in-blu-ray-region-1-embrace/


Well, maybe not.

*goes back to eating his DRM soup*]]>Dec 27th 2005 3:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/12/27/us-japan-joyous-in-blu-ray-region-1-embrace/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/27/us-japan-joyous-in-blu-ray-region-1-embrace/


The one thing Europeans could boast that Americans didn't have has now been swiped from us. Utterly disgraceful, I mean I'm just going to have to download all that blu-ray anime ;)]]>Dec 27th 2005 4:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/12/27/us-japan-joyous-in-blu-ray-region-1-embrace/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/27/us-japan-joyous-in-blu-ray-region-1-embrace/Dec 27th 2005 4:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/12/27/us-japan-joyous-in-blu-ray-region-1-embrace/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/27/us-japan-joyous-in-blu-ray-region-1-embrace/


If you read the story on Slashdot-:



http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/27/1932232&tid=188&tid=17



-you'll see another funny-fact. Blu-ray apparently is waiting for their DRM to be completed to release their technology. The story doesn't give the reason, but I imagine that there are some that want kneecap-busting DRM, and some that only want face-spitting DRM, and I'm sure within a few weeks they'll find that happy medium that everyone will agree insults the customer just enough to make them know who's boss, but not enough to keep them from buying the new discs.]]>Dec 27th 2005 6:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/12/27/us-japan-joyous-in-blu-ray-region-1-embrace/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/27/us-japan-joyous-in-blu-ray-region-1-embrace/


Another thing: why the hell the U.S. has #1 DVD code and China and Russia have #3? It's not politically correct, I tell ya! :)]]>Dec 27th 2005 6:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/12/27/us-japan-joyous-in-blu-ray-region-1-embrace/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/27/us-japan-joyous-in-blu-ray-region-1-embrace/Dec 27th 2005 6:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/12/27/us-japan-joyous-in-blu-ray-region-1-embrace/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/27/us-japan-joyous-in-blu-ray-region-1-embrace/


Can we please have a region that's not shit?

Ta.



-Australia]]>Dec 27th 2005 9:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/12/27/us-japan-joyous-in-blu-ray-region-1-embrace/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/27/us-japan-joyous-in-blu-ray-region-1-embrace/


http://hometheater.about.com/cs/dvdlaserdisc/a/aaregioncodesa.htm



I have no idea why the U.K. and Australia don't just come out and declare region coding as price fixing and ban it!]]>Dec 27th 2005 10:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/12/27/us-japan-joyous-in-blu-ray-region-1-embrace/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/27/us-japan-joyous-in-blu-ray-region-1-embrace/


can i get korean soaps easier?]]>Dec 28th 2005 12:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/12/27/us-japan-joyous-in-blu-ray-region-1-embrace/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/27/us-japan-joyous-in-blu-ray-region-1-embrace/Dec 28th 2005 4:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/12/27/us-japan-joyous-in-blu-ray-region-1-embrace/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/27/us-japan-joyous-in-blu-ray-region-1-embrace/


In Hong Kong when you go to the local HMV you get disks from Japan and the US and ones specifically for the HK market... no one gives a hoot about the region that DVDs come from 'cos everyone has a region free DVD player. The only time I ever come across people with DVD region problems are those, like myself, who have a recent model Apple Mac where the DVD player has not got a firware patch to enable RegionX to work.



I hear that New Zealand is trying to make Region coding illegal - certainly all the DVD players there seem to be region free - I send DVD's there to friends and they never seem to have a problem playing them.



http://hometheater.about.com/cs/dvdlaserdisc/a/aaregioncodesa.htm



Region codes should just be scrapped.]]>Dec 28th 2005 7:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/12/27/us-japan-joyous-in-blu-ray-region-1-embrace/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/27/us-japan-joyous-in-blu-ray-region-1-embrace/Dec 28th 2005 11:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/12/27/us-japan-joyous-in-blu-ray-region-1-embrace/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/27/us-japan-joyous-in-blu-ray-region-1-embrace/


I guess the Japs don't give a dam about those pikeys and continue to steal their clams.



And I still feel a bit leery about Sony giving up on extensive DRMs and rootkits so soon, ecspecially when they have a chance to permanently fix it into a new format.]]>Dec 28th 2005 3:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/12/27/us-japan-joyous-in-blu-ray-region-1-embrace/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/27/us-japan-joyous-in-blu-ray-region-1-embrace/Dec 28th 2005 8:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/12/27/us-japan-joyous-in-blu-ray-region-1-embrace/http://www.engadget.com/2005/12/27/us-japan-joyous-in-blu-ray-region-1-embrace/


America and Japan are fundementally using the same technology to drive HDTV. They're also the two most forward countries when it comes to HDTV broadcasts. From the people who've spoken on the subject, PAL's HD format is not taking off very quickly at all.



So, I would imagine that this maneuver is more for business reasons than the old copy protection reasons from DVD.



I think the companies involved this time around learned that if they want to be able to get people to PURCHASE their software (movies/TV Shows), they'll have to be able to overcome their old patterns of staggered global releases of software.



#6. what other consumer technology has had region coding besides DVD?



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Actually in Australia, if you sell a dvd player that has region encoding the store must offer to unlock the region encoding (for no additional charge). Thats why most dvd players sold in Australia are already region free. Both big & small brands alike already don't have region locking.



However its a bit different with dvd-roms in pc's.



It will be interesting to see how blu-ray/hd-dvd turns out in Australia.]]>Dec 31st 2005 12:52AM