By Will Head | PC Advisor | 07 October 05
"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." Hisashi Yamada, Toshiba Digital Media Networks.
Interesting.
[via Engadget]
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Comments
Danoh said: I will wait and see if they have really woken up and smelt the coffee of global commercial sense Regional coding as an ignorant bit of imperialistic logic has been well and truly smacked on the butt By raising the barriers it has only increased the incentives got it yet guys
Belatucadrus said: Good grief a bit of common sense DVD regional controls must be one of the most futile trade limitation exercises ever Rendered irrelevant by multi region players and the ready availability of unlock codes Perhaps now itll stop being cheaper to get a region three sent over from Hong Kong than to buy a two from off the high streetOr maybe not