FCC overstepped authority on digital TV-US court

[Nilfennasion]

Region coding's optional status is enforced in Australia by consumer choice (in a rare show of Australians actually having the nerve to make a choice like this). Stores that sell Region-4-only players and openly advertise the fact are given a wide berth by all but the ignorant. And considering that many working families take holidays in the USA, on which they often buy DVDs from retailers there, the ignorant in Australia are a shrinking minority.

When a manufacturer tries to tell the consumer here "you can do this, but you can't do this", the consumer often reacts with "I'll just go buy something else then". If they find out after they have made the purchase, well, let's just say the groundswell of opposition eventually renders the protection/control scheme useless.

[BJ_M]

nope -- in fact futureshop carries all sorts region free players ... they also still sell dvdxcopy off thier web site ..

Marked as Region free? I know they sell all kinds that can be made region free.

some are on the box, some on the description card and on the web site look at customer comments ... all those cheapo nova's are anyway...

[edDV]

Time to start to shove it up their HDMI port. I prefer a slow painful process.