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

[slaizer2000]

Originally Posted by John72953

When I play vinyl LP's and CD's it plays regardless of which country they came from.

Why did they introduce region-coding for video? Does it have to do with NTSC or PAL?

I'm not a videophile at all, which is why I'm asking the question.

Some of the region coded is done for censorship purposes. We have our rating standards, g, pg, pg13, r, unrated and such. those don;t always translate the same to what the standards are in other countries.

There also is sometimes some content in movies that just is not allowed in other countries in any format, so it gets removed from the movie. Also some countries won;t allow certain movies into their countries until they put it on the chopping blocks and remove offensive stuff from it.