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No Region Codes for HD-DVD?

Posted by Zonk on from the that-would-be-nice dept.

MBCook writes "According to Engadget something interesting has come out of the DVD Forum Conference 2005 in Japan. Here is the line from the post we've all been waiting for: 'But one statement from Toshiba Digital Media Networks' Hisashi Yamada was particularly intriguing: "We've gotten a variety of opinions about region controls. Even in the Steering Committee, they are extremely unpopular; we decided to not put them in. HD DVD probably won't contain any region playback controls."' Source: Japanese, English (via Google's Language Tools)."

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  1. Japanese English? by DavidBartlett · · Score: 4, Funny

    Japanese English?

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  2. IN SOVIET RUSSIA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    DVDs code you!

  3. And the people rejoiced. by dj245 · · Score: 3, Funny

    And the people rejoiced.
    And the movie industry rejected HD-DVD.

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  4. Re:The real reason... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    It always annoys me when people anthropomorphize information. Information doesn't want shit.

  5. already redundant given purchaser's SS# on disk... by retiarius · · Score: 2, Funny

    what, blue-laser disks aren't serialized that way?!

  6. Next slashdot Headline... by SwedeGeek · · Score: 5, Funny

    RIAA Sues All Attendees of DVD Forum Conference 2005

    1. Re:Next slashdot Headline... by zalas · · Score: 5, Funny

      RIAA Sues All Attendees of DVD Forum Conference 2005
      In other news... MPAA sues RIAA for infringing on the MPAA's patent to sue their own customers/companies/etc.

  7. Re:This is GREAT, but it's not that huge a deal by Kjella · · Score: 5, Funny

    Also, most of us can hack, and hacking DVD BIOS/software/players is pretty straightforward.

    Jon, is that your work account? (see nick)

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  8. Re:The real reason... by wossName · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sigged!

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  9. Re:The real reason... by maxwell+demon · · Score: 5, Funny

    Information wants to be anthropomorphized! :-)

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  10. Re:The real reason... by haggar · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ditto! (Come on, iterate.)

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  11. Re:This only means... by z4ce · · Score: 3, Funny

    When I watched that movie, I wondered, "What are effects of digital media on analog evil". For example, when I watched the movie it was on DVD. Therefore, a copy was more than likely made in various caches in the system. Does that inhibit the evil on the VHS from attacking me? Or even at a more fundamental level, did the evil even survive the MPEG2 compression? Can any evil survive digitation?

    What about internet distribution? Does copying a DivX file grant you immunity? Do the router owner's between you and another computer gain immunity, even though they are not aware of the copy.

    Somebody needs to do their Ph.D. dissertation on this subject.