Region Free Blu-ray Players?

[syncguy]

Originally Posted by Mobe1969

In Australia, even Sony DVD players are region free from Sony Australia. My last two DVD players were Sony and both Region Free.

I really want the PS3 to get region freed. It would be an all in one masterpiece if it was. As it is, I had to buy another upscaling DVD player (sony region free) to play my non region 4 DVDs. And I still don't have a solution for Region A Blu Ray. The best option I can see at the moment is a Region A PS3... So I need three units. Rather than just one.

The view of the Australian Consumer and Competition Council (ACCC) is that the region coding is an anti competitive concept and assist maintaining higher artificial prices in some regions. And the copyright laws that are used to justify region coding were not intended to be used in this manner. I hope this view will be adopted by other governments like US and someday region coding will be removed by regulation.

The region coding can be easily defeated just by purchasing hardware from some other region.