http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/dvd-region-code-blocks-british-prime-minister-from-enjoying-obam/ Engadget Comments for DVD region code blocks British Prime Minister from enjoying Obama's gift 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/2009/03/20/dvd-region-code-blocks-british-prime-minister-from-enjoying-obam/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/dvd-region-code-blocks-british-prime-minister-from-enjoying-obam/
I'm sure PM Brown was able to figure it out :-)]]>Mar 20th 2009 5:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/dvd-region-code-blocks-british-prime-minister-from-enjoying-obam/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/dvd-region-code-blocks-british-prime-minister-from-enjoying-obam/Mar 20th 2009 8:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/dvd-region-code-blocks-british-prime-minister-from-enjoying-obam/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/dvd-region-code-blocks-british-prime-minister-from-enjoying-obam/
I could care less if it was made of extinct wood extracted by pygmies using OJ Simpson's Jock strap. It's still just a pen holder, and it's still just a desk. I don't understand the fascination people have with this crap.]]>Mar 20th 2009 8:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/dvd-region-code-blocks-british-prime-minister-from-enjoying-obam/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/dvd-region-code-blocks-british-prime-minister-from-enjoying-obam/A bunch of DVDs that won't even play in the PMs DVD players is just shockingly thoughtless. The White House is stock full of historic artifacts and the best they can come up with is a boxed set of DVDs from Best Buy?]]>Mar 20th 2009 9:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/dvd-region-code-blocks-british-prime-minister-from-enjoying-obam/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/dvd-region-code-blocks-british-prime-minister-from-enjoying-obam/
"A bunch of DVDs that won't even play in the PMs DVD players is just shockingly thoughtless." – and therefore utterly, utterly brilliant. Brown has a serious case of the try-too-hards without any actual brain, and Obama clearly thinks he's not worth the time of day. I hope it was a calculated snub; I may not be the Great O's biggest fan, but it'd still be nice to think he agrees with the rest of us that our PM is a talentless dick.]]>Mar 20th 2009 10:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/dvd-region-code-blocks-british-prime-minister-from-enjoying-obam/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/dvd-region-code-blocks-british-prime-minister-from-enjoying-obam/
Triple Irony i suppose would be the vast majority of the movies were written/directed/starred and produced all by Brits...]]>Mar 20th 2009 10:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/dvd-region-code-blocks-british-prime-minister-from-enjoying-obam/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/dvd-region-code-blocks-british-prime-minister-from-enjoying-obam/Mar 20th 2009 11:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/dvd-region-code-blocks-british-prime-minister-from-enjoying-obam/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/dvd-region-code-blocks-british-prime-minister-from-enjoying-obam/
And yes--a very thoughtful and symbolic gift on Brown's part. Obama's... not so much. Surely one of his team could've put a little more effort into researching the gift, and at least (if they were going to stick with the DVD idea) throw in a $100 US-region DVD player.]]>Mar 20th 2009 11:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/dvd-region-code-blocks-british-prime-minister-from-enjoying-obam/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/dvd-region-code-blocks-british-prime-minister-from-enjoying-obam/
Actually, he's not even half.

He's 50% White, 43.5% Arab, 6.5% Black.]]>Mar 20th 2009 12:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/dvd-region-code-blocks-british-prime-minister-from-enjoying-obam/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/dvd-region-code-blocks-british-prime-minister-from-enjoying-obam/Mar 20th 2009 12:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/dvd-region-code-blocks-british-prime-minister-from-enjoying-obam/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/dvd-region-code-blocks-british-prime-minister-from-enjoying-obam/
"I don't understand"

That's correct, you don't.]]>Mar 20th 2009 12:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/dvd-region-code-blocks-british-prime-minister-from-enjoying-obam/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/dvd-region-code-blocks-british-prime-minister-from-enjoying-obam/
Much more thoughtful... and more HD'er]]>Mar 20th 2009 12:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/dvd-region-code-blocks-british-prime-minister-from-enjoying-obam/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/dvd-region-code-blocks-british-prime-minister-from-enjoying-obam/It is a bit lame to reply to the first poster, just so your post can be 2nd in the list. Your post had nothing to do with what you replied to. ]]>Mar 20th 2009 12:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/dvd-region-code-blocks-british-prime-minister-from-enjoying-obam/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/dvd-region-code-blocks-british-prime-minister-from-enjoying-obam/Mar 20th 2009 3:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/dvd-region-code-blocks-british-prime-minister-from-enjoying-obam/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/dvd-region-code-blocks-british-prime-minister-from-enjoying-obam/
I don't think it was meant as a snub, I can only presume that the new administration isn't sure what kinda stuff it can be giving away from the White House yet. And mostly I think it was just that they didn't realize that Brown would show up with such a well thought out gift.

It's not every day that a foreign head of state shows up with a gift nearly as thoughtful, so it's kind of hard to expect the US to have known in advance that they should think up a similarly great gift.

The DVDs are pretty pathetic regardless of what Brown brought though. *sigh*]]>Mar 21st 2009 6:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/dvd-region-code-blocks-british-prime-minister-from-enjoying-obam/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/dvd-region-code-blocks-british-prime-minister-from-enjoying-obam/Mar 21st 2009 11:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/dvd-region-code-blocks-british-prime-minister-from-enjoying-obam/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/dvd-region-code-blocks-british-prime-minister-from-enjoying-obam/Mar 20th 2009 5:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/dvd-region-code-blocks-british-prime-minister-from-enjoying-obam/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/dvd-region-code-blocks-british-prime-minister-from-enjoying-obam/Mar 20th 2009 7:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/dvd-region-code-blocks-british-prime-minister-from-enjoying-obam/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/dvd-region-code-blocks-british-prime-minister-from-enjoying-obam/
Region coding was doomed to failure from the beginning. Studios should remove the unnecessary coding because it is so easy to bypass. Then again, thanks to DeCSS, copy protection is also unnecessary since it is so easy to bypass too.]]>Mar 20th 2009 10:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/dvd-region-code-blocks-british-prime-minister-from-enjoying-obam/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/dvd-region-code-blocks-british-prime-minister-from-enjoying-obam/Mar 20th 2009 5:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/dvd-region-code-blocks-british-prime-minister-from-enjoying-obam/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/dvd-region-code-blocks-british-prime-minister-from-enjoying-obam/Mar 20th 2009 8:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/dvd-region-code-blocks-british-prime-minister-from-enjoying-obam/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/dvd-region-code-blocks-british-prime-minister-from-enjoying-obam/Mar 20th 2009 1:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/dvd-region-code-blocks-british-prime-minister-from-enjoying-obam/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/dvd-region-code-blocks-british-prime-minister-from-enjoying-obam/Mar 20th 2009 10:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/dvd-region-code-blocks-british-prime-minister-from-enjoying-obam/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/dvd-region-code-blocks-british-prime-minister-from-enjoying-obam/Mar 20th 2009 5:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/dvd-region-code-blocks-british-prime-minister-from-enjoying-obam/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/dvd-region-code-blocks-british-prime-minister-from-enjoying-obam/Mar 20th 2009 7:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/dvd-region-code-blocks-british-prime-minister-from-enjoying-obam/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/dvd-region-code-blocks-british-prime-minister-from-enjoying-obam/Mar 20th 2009 7:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/dvd-region-code-blocks-british-prime-minister-from-enjoying-obam/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/dvd-region-code-blocks-british-prime-minister-from-enjoying-obam/Mar 20th 2009 7:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/dvd-region-code-blocks-british-prime-minister-from-enjoying-obam/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/dvd-region-code-blocks-british-prime-minister-from-enjoying-obam/Can we just have a moments silence for the billions of wasted hours trying to get your freakin
DVD-R/X/Y/Z/-/+ to work on your mates DVD player.
It all descended down from a technical laser/coating-whatever problem to
'Is your DVD attractive to the DVD player, even then it might recovering from a recent incompatabilty and not looking for any laser-pit relationships right now'

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Say a dvd costs 20$ new.

Now you want to sell it in some poor third world country as well. Who there can afford to pay that price? No-one, so you set the price at 3$ instead.

And now you need a system to prevent people from buying up all the dvd's there, to resell them in richer countries.

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Did anyone in the DRM industry consider that if we provide it for the same price everywhere we will increase our market penetration and abolish piracy because at $3 its not worth some guy in china ripping it off.

]]>Mar 20th 2009 6:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/dvd-region-code-blocks-british-prime-minister-from-enjoying-obam/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/dvd-region-code-blocks-british-prime-minister-from-enjoying-obam/Well, there are already rickshaws here in central London for tourists from Region 1...]]>Mar 20th 2009 7:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/dvd-region-code-blocks-british-prime-minister-from-enjoying-obam/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/dvd-region-code-blocks-british-prime-minister-from-enjoying-obam/Mar 20th 2009 7:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/dvd-region-code-blocks-british-prime-minister-from-enjoying-obam/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/dvd-region-code-blocks-british-prime-minister-from-enjoying-obam/
Madness.

I fully expect Brown threw the lot in the bin and fired up some British classics like Sense and Sensibility, Four Weddings or Trainspotting anyway.]]>Mar 20th 2009 7:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/dvd-region-code-blocks-british-prime-minister-from-enjoying-obam/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/dvd-region-code-blocks-british-prime-minister-from-enjoying-obam/Mar 20th 2009 7:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/dvd-region-code-blocks-british-prime-minister-from-enjoying-obam/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/dvd-region-code-blocks-british-prime-minister-from-enjoying-obam/Mar 20th 2009 10:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/dvd-region-code-blocks-british-prime-minister-from-enjoying-obam/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/dvd-region-code-blocks-british-prime-minister-from-enjoying-obam/Mar 20th 2009 6:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/dvd-region-code-blocks-british-prime-minister-from-enjoying-obam/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/dvd-region-code-blocks-british-prime-minister-from-enjoying-obam/Mar 20th 2009 6:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/dvd-region-code-blocks-british-prime-minister-from-enjoying-obam/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/dvd-region-code-blocks-british-prime-minister-from-enjoying-obam/Mar 20th 2009 6:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/dvd-region-code-blocks-british-prime-minister-from-enjoying-obam/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/dvd-region-code-blocks-british-prime-minister-from-enjoying-obam/Mar 20th 2009 7:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/dvd-region-code-blocks-british-prime-minister-from-enjoying-obam/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/dvd-region-code-blocks-british-prime-minister-from-enjoying-obam/Mar 20th 2009 3:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/dvd-region-code-blocks-british-prime-minister-from-enjoying-obam/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/dvd-region-code-blocks-british-prime-minister-from-enjoying-obam/Mar 20th 2009 6:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/dvd-region-code-blocks-british-prime-minister-from-enjoying-obam/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/dvd-region-code-blocks-british-prime-minister-from-enjoying-obam/Mar 20th 2009 8:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/dvd-region-code-blocks-british-prime-minister-from-enjoying-obam/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/dvd-region-code-blocks-british-prime-minister-from-enjoying-obam/]]>Mar 20th 2009 8:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/dvd-region-code-blocks-british-prime-minister-from-enjoying-obam/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/20/dvd-region-code-blocks-british-prime-minister-from-enjoying-obam/Mar 20th 2009 7:02PM