"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!"
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.
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"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!"
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.