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Originally Posted by momaw
Yes, 1080i50. My bad.
I find it funny that because of the US film companies forcing region coding onto the rest of the world, players and displays outside the US have adapted to be able to play anything to get around restrictions but most of the US based players/displays are stuck unable to play alot of things from the outside world.
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I had to buy a chipped player. All the reliable multi-region DVD outlets in the UK said the studios were going all out to enforce region locking and that software cheats could be invalidated by future firmware updates.
If I hadn't found a multi-region player I don't know if I'd have bothered with blu-ray. Criterion and David Lynch were 80% of the reason I moved from DVD to blu-ray. The big studios weren't important.
Blu-ray still hasn't got a proper foothold in the UK. I was in HMV yesterday, in the midst of a Christmas shopping riot, and I heard someone looking for the "proper" DVD of Cinderella rather than the presumably improper blu-ray. I was the only person in the (long) queue buying blu-rays.