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Originally Posted by Xaccers
The regional thing is just a marketing thing so they can spread the releases.
With VHS this was done because of the different technologies, like PAL/NTSC/SECAM but DVDs don't have that problem so they invented the regions.
IIRC the australian courts are dealing with this on behalf of consumers as over there the manufacturer has no right to dictate to the consumer how to use products.
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Not true - DVDs and DVD players still have the NTSC and PAL switch, because TVs are either NTSC or PAL. Although, that said, most dvd players (especially region free for obvious reasons), can switch between NTSC and PAL output.