makingmusic476 on 05 January 2008
| madskillz said: Sweet - goodbye region free movies, hello region locking!!!!!! I am too excited! |
Only new releases (less than a year old) are required to be region locked on Blu-Ray, and this is purely to solve international release issues. For example, Hairspray has been released on both Blu-Ray and DVD in the US, but New Line was forced to hold of on the HD DVD release because it would infringe on the theatrical runs of the film in Europe, where it is still being played.
Most older films (1+ years old) are not region encoded on Blu-Ray.
How is region encoding a bad thing in this situation?
