Emigrating DVD's?

RenHoek asks: "I found the love of my life on the internet, and I'm about to emigrate from the Netherlands to the USA. This leaves me with a big problem. My carefully collected DVD's are region 2 (Europe) and the USA is region 1. So except for buying a new DVD player (220 volts in Europe, 110 in the USA) does this also mean I have to sell my entire DVD collection here, and try to buy everything together in the US? It would seem I have a legal right to watch my legally bought DVDs, but region locking prohibits this, and circumventing region locking carries stiff penalties. Emailing the MPAA resulted in deafening silence. So what does the slashdot community advise? Should I follow the new American dream and start suing the moment I enter the US for the fact that the MPAA is either taking away my rights, or forcing me into a DMCA crime?" Thank god there are regionless DVD players! For those who don't know about them, which ones do you recommend and where are the best places to buy them?

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[Polo]

The site vcdhelp.com is a good site that lists just about every dvd player with it's ability to play stuff from different regions. Just about every player has a "region hack" that allows a different region to be selected.

Re:Don't you get it.

[mjoconnor81]

ok....mark me as flamebait or off topic....but i just can't reading statements like these, and never say anything. so here is my official remark. beowulf clusters are great....but when people start talking about clustering evrything under the sun i quite frankly find it annoying. i long for the day that i can read an entire slashdot editorial @ -1 nested and not see a comment about a cluster of wrist watches. Mark this how you like, but enough is enough, lets cluster in reason. lets not be frevilous and wastefull with our clusters, for we may give the phrase beowulf cluster a bad name. ok....

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