Linked by Andrew Youll on Mon 2nd Jan 2006 13:20 UTC
I recently saw a post on Neowin which said that Vista will no longer allow the use of region-free DVD drives for movie playback; I found this strange considering in some nations region-coding DVDs is illegal as it goes against consumer rights. Neowin also links against an MS developers blog, where he talks about MS lacking any region-free drives to test legacy code on, and this may lead to lack of support for those drives. So where does this leave consumers who have region-free drives? Well you'll be able to still use DVD-data discs you just wont be able to play encrypted/region-coded DVDs anymore.
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2005-11-14
These days even the standalone living room players (expecially the cheap ones) are Region Free, by default, at least here in Italy.
And like the article poster states, region coding's legal status is already shaky.
Not exactly a wise choice for MS, if you ask me (but it would not be the first, nor the last).