Wtf is the point of "Region Coding"

[Tommy B]

God Sony **** me off. I've just had the film Click (on Blu-Ray) rented from Lovefilm in the post. I pop it in the drive of my Vaio and up pops a message "mismatch between disc and player region codes."

The laptop BR drive is set to Region 2. The disc Lovefilm sent is supposedly Region 2 (I've emailed them in case it isn't) and now I can't watch the film.

I don't understand the point in it. Is it meant to stop piracy? It should be completely illegal. If I want to go to the US and buy a load of Blu-Ray discs there then I should damn well be allowed to bring them back here and play them without any restrictions.

Sony are right ***** sometimes.

I'd rather go and buy a dodgy copy down the market without protection to be quite honest.

 

[Tommy B]

Download VLC Media Player, enjoy region free playback.

Edit: Oh yeah Blu-Ray, not sure if it supports that or not.

I wish it did, but it doesn't (

 

[Tommy B]

Power DVD Ultra + AnyDVDHD = No more region encoding or HDCP.

Cheers mate that works great. I downloaded the trial of AnyDVDHD and it should work for another 21 days or so. Many thanks.