[thechat] LOTR locations

[Ben Dyer]

On 03:08 PM 1/4/2002, Martin said to me:

>On Friday, January 4, 2002, at 09:03  pm, Ben Dyer wrote:
>
>>On 02:44 PM 1/4/2002, Salvatore Palmisano said to me:
>>>DVDs are encoded for specific regions, similar to the NTSC and PAL video
>>>formats (I think).
>>>Here's some more information:
>>>http://www.laserrot.com/info/lrinfo/dvdmap.html
>>
>>Actually, it was originally designed with copy protection in mind,
>
>Or (more likely) protecting margins in high cost regions
>*cough*Europe*cough* so the punters can't import from
>overseas.

Very true.  But notice how they broke up the regions, too.  They put the 
regions together that tend to foster piracy (Eastern Europe and Russia, 
Southeast Asia).  Shoot, China gets its own freakin region. :)

--Ben


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