By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 26/08/2026Sure, some DVD player owners who had never shopped abroad for a DVD didn't care about region coding. But for customers who bought a disc on vacation, or moved from one country to another: region coding was *terrible*. 51/ 41895
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 26/08/2026So there were customers who didn't care about region coding, and customers who hated region coding, but there were *zero* DVD player owners who *wanted* region coding. No DVD manufacturer could advertise that their products come with region coding. 52/ 21998
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 26/08/2026If there were two equivalent DVD players in the market, identical except that one had region coding and the other didn't, the "region-free" player would win. Region-coding is an anti-feature. 53/ 21855
The Facts in the Case of Dr Dedman @stephendedman.bsky.social · 26/08/2026I inherited a region-coded DVD player from my MIL's boyfriend when he bought a better player. I borrowed a DVD of SEVEN SAMURAI from the university, and it wouldn't play because it wasn't region-coded for Australia. The movie is older than I am! It's not as though it was still showing in cinemas! 120
