• SpiceDealer@lemmy.world
    2·
    2 months ago

    Whoever thought that region locking content was a good idea should be thrown overboard and be eaten by the Kraken.

  • Psythik@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 months ago

    Does anyone else remember when Windows 98 would let you change your DVD drive’s region, but only let you do it five times total before you were permanently locked into the region you selected the fifth time?

    I was so tempted to change the setting just for fun, but never did because the warning message scared the shit out of 12-year-old me.

  • Kairos@lemmy.today
    0·
    2 months ago

    Why is South Africa part of Europe? Because it’s wealthier and Europe was the easiest option?

    Edit: and Africa is on the same region as Russia and India? I think I should stop trying to rationalize this.

    • deus@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 months ago

      Region 5 looks like they said “screw it, let’s just throw all the countries left into a single region and call it a day”

    • addie@feddit.uk
      1·
      2 months ago

      There’s three regions missing here - region 0 is “worldwide”, region 7 is “special purpose”, Oscar screening DVDs and the like, and region 8 is “international waters” for cruise ships and things. You can set several regions on the same disk, to make a 2/4/5 and the like. Set each region as a bit, and you can store that in a single byte - that makes it very easy to flash the firmware on DVD players to decide which disks they can play. Aus/NZ will want content in English and Latin America will want Spanish or Portuguese, so the DVD consortium can still get up to their often-illegal, certainly immoral, price fixing and bullshit.

      Really, fuck DVDs. So much potential in the increased capacity, and then it was mired in crap like this and “disabled user operations” so that you can’t skip trailers. Time to raise the black flag and set sail for prosperous waters, me hearties.