Why are BD's & DVD's Region-coded?

[Johnny Vinyl]

Originally Posted by quirkmanly

DVDs commercial birth was, if I'm not incorrect, in late 1996/early 1997 - are you really under the impression that the internet came about after that? Amazon, for instance, was founded in 1995, and when I started going online in January 1997 many, many media sites were already established.

I included CDs/Vinyl in my answer because you did in your question. If it is irrelevant, why bother making your opening statement?

Anyway, I'm leaving this thread, your tone is very strange.

I'm well aware that the "internet" started many years ago. In fact, I had subscriptions to both Compuserve and GEnie in the mid-to-late 80's, but you can't quite equate the beginnings of that to what is available today.

I included the Vinyl/CD reference only because they were NOT region coded media formats...it was a point of reference. If you can't understand that, then read the original post again.

If you're answer to me is one that says Region-coding is the result of the proliference of the Internet, perhaps we have a discussion. But you chose to leave, so I suspect I'll never find out the real answer!