On 26 Jun 2007, at 15:19, Richard Hyett wrote:
In last weeks 'This Week in Tech' Leo Laporte made the point that
many of the BBC's titles on DVD were only available on 'Region 2'
format. Region 2 works fine on in Middle East, Iceland, Western
Europe, Central Europe, Egypt, French overseas territories,
Greenland, Japan, Lesotho, South Africa and Swaziland,but not in
North America.
A trip to Amazon.com confirms this. Perhaps there isn't much of a
demand for BBC content from 300 million North Americans, but Leo
was indignant anyway.
We recently bought the entire series of MASH on DVD, it will take
perhaps six months to get through it a leisurely pace. Six months
when we won't be channel hopping, using Freeview or the IPlayer
Do regions actually mean anything anymore? Most of my DVD players can
play any region, only a really old Sony one enforced the regions.
Ben O'Neill
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