john
Dog Eater
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Post by john on Sept 28, 2006 16:15:17 GMT -5
Ha-Ha
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RuaDragon
Snapped
Sydney Nightlife
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Post by RuaDragon on Oct 2, 2006 4:01:39 GMT -5
;D
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cage
Human
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Post by cage on Oct 1, 2007 18:09:15 GMT -5
I think it has to do with the fact that some places get DVD's sooner than others sometimes before the film has even hit theaters in that area. I know that the Buffy DVD's came out earlier in the UK because the syndication laws or the contract for US showing. Or something like that.
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cage
Human
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Post by cage on Oct 1, 2007 18:12:24 GMT -5
from wiki
DVD-Video discs may be encoded with a region code intended to restrict the area of the world in which they can be played. Discs can be produced without region coding; they are sometimes referred to as region 0 or (more properly) all region discs.
The commercial DVD player specification requires that a player to be sold in a given place must not play discs encoded for a different region (region 0 discs are not restricted). The purpose of this system is to allow motion picture studios to control the various aspects of a release (including content, date and, in particular, price) according to the region. In practice many DVD players are or can be modified to be region-free, allowing playback of all discs. Entirely independent of Content Scramble System (CSS) encryption, region coding pertains to regional lockout, which originated in the video game industry.
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