Talk:DVD region code

Proposed deletion
Not sure why this has been proposed for deletion almost as soon as it's been created. It's useful to be able to link the terms Region 1, Region 2 and Region 4. We can't assume that casual users of the site will be as familiar with these terms as most editors likely are. Some people, and by that I probably mean Americans, will be unaware that there are different regions. Make of it what you will, but I know in my part of the world, I've had to explain — to more people than I'd care to remember — what "regional coding" means.  Czech Out  ☎ | ✍  02:32, 18 May 2009 (UTC)


 * I'm acutely aware of region coding (though most DVD players sold through large outlets out here are sold by default as multi-region). But I understand your point, I can only assume that it was prop deleted because it duplicates information on wikipedia.
 * The Doctor Who related information could actually be split off to cover the Australian, UK and American DVD releases and the differences between them as I think putting that information (covers, ratings, release differences) on here would be muddying the waters somewhat. --Tangerineduel 08:46, 24 May 2009 (UTC)


 * I put in the proposed deletion because of its lack of specific relevance to DW. (I think I did the same with an article called "16 mm film" or similar for the same reasons.) the information contains here could easily go in the general article on DVD releases. (but not the chart, because Wikipedia has that information already. you could jsut summarize the distinctions in text form.) --Stardizzy2 15:56, 30 May 2009 (UTC)


 * It only (inexactly) duplicates Wikipedia insofar as the table is concerned, and that's hardly duplicating anything original. I'm not sure how you can originally deliver that information, except by changing the format of the table.   I disagree with separating out the Doctor Who material, because that's precisely what makes the article relevant to this wiki.  Even if readers are aware of the existence of region coding, then the question people will expect this article to answer (on a DW wiki) is, "Well, are the DVDs different in the various regions, and if so, how?"   I'm not suggesting this article should go into any greater detail than the paragraph that currently exists, but a mention of the fact that the covers are different and any broad differences as to content wouldn't go amiss.
 * While we're on that subject, I've heard, but cannot readily confirm that the only real contentual differences between R1 and R2 has to do with the "Coming Next" trailers. Anybody know anything about this?  Is it as simple as R1s always fail to have a trailer?  I don't think that's true; I seem to recall a trailer or two along the R1 way.     I don't have R1 and R2 copies of all these DVDs, so does anyone know, by way of a quote from 2 entertain or a viewer obsessed with this detail, whether it's true?  And does anyone out there have any details about the R8 stuff that British Airways used (uses?) for trans-Atlantic flights?  I wonder if anyone has been able to analyze in-flight DW for editing?   Czech Out   ☎ | ✍  14:28, 30 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Having recently been on a longhaul flight (and done so many times in the past) their in-flight systems have the feel look and useability of a hard drive based system rather than a disc based system (or is/was it only British Airways that used disc based systems), one of the flights I was on had a couple of eps of Doctor Who but as I said it had the useability of a hard drive based system.
 * The only difference I recall reading about (I think on the restoration team's website) is the difference between the UK and region releases was for Remembrance of the Daleks some of its (copyrighted) music was replaced with covers for the R1 and R4 markets.
 * Though what I don't get is why all Doctor Who DVDs released in the UK are coded for region 2 & 4 despite this copyright thing. --Tangerineduel 14:43, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Not only that, but I'm (I think) reliably informed by an Australian friend of mine that it's possible to order one of these R2/R4 dealios from Amazon.co.uk and have it in her DVD player by the time the episode has it's R4-only release, for cheaper than the retail for the R4 release. So what the hell is the point of the R4 release?  Now what would be interesting to know is if one of these R4 releases was also coded for R2/R4.   In other words, is the difference really only the packaging?   Czech Out   ☎ | ✍  17:18, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
 * I have actually done that, a majority of my DVDs are UK DVDs (I'm in Australia by the way). However I will be heading out tomorrow to check as I haven't bought any of the recent releases, but will be buying the Aus/region 4 releases (hoping to get some of them cheap).
 * That said if you buy a DVD player from any large seller of DVDs players (generally major brands) in Australia they come modified by the company in Australia to play all regions (the last Sony DVD player I purchased had tape across it stating that it had been openned by Sony Australia to do this). There was an ACCC (Aust consumer, competition commission) ruling a while back that stated it was anti-competitive to have DVD players locked to a region here (or something like that, it's something I vaguely recall).
 * As for the point, they're dual branded ABC DVD and BBC DVD, the ABC is the main broadcaster of DW here so most BBC DVDs get released with ABC DVD's mark on it. Additionally (I don't know why) the logo on the spine is a small logo (the same as is on the front), rather than the spread out side by side of the UK releases.
 * It's not the first weird decision for the Australian releases, when The Green Death was released here it had both the diamond and Pertwee logo on the spine (The Green Death was the first video to use the blue Pertwee logo rather than the diamond the had been previously used), obviously someone in Roadshow decided to put both. --Tangerineduel 17:56, 31 May 2009 (UTC)