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Posted by: Mike Perry (Monday 14 November 2005, 3:55 PM)

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This offense by Sony is as bad as that by the Hollywood moguls whjo demanded, and sadly got, regionalisation of DVDs. I have relatives living in UK and USA but we can't watch each other's DVDs bought as gifts as my drive is region 2 and theirs is region 1. What's worse is trhat they automatically 'lock' your drive, note it's YOUR drive, so you can't play any DVDs other than ones from the same region as that causing the fifth region change.
My DVD drive is MINE - not Sony's, not Hollywood's. I decide what I want to watch and if my family buy me a gift (birthday, Christmas, Divali, WHY) that is a DVD then I want to watch it. And why not?

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