No Region Codes for HD-DVD?

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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Wonderful, now can they just play the movie?

[msdschris]

One of the reasons I choose to back up my movies onto DVD+R is that I do not have to wait for what on many brands are endless previews. It's bad enough to have to pay 20+ dollars for mostly shit movies but to then be subjected to 10 minutes or more of commercials and previews that are sometimes not easily skipped is ridiculous. Add to that some of the more ridiculous menu systems on some movies and it can take what seems like an eternity sometimes just to simply pop a movie in to fall asleep to. They have 2 sided capability, how about simply playing the freaking movie on on side while saving all of the fancy menu bullshit for side-B. If I cannot make it easy by just copying the movie alone to a playable format I simply wont bother with most movies.