stackyFACTSThe advent of the optical disc brought the incredibly annoying concept of digital geographic boundaries into your living room.
The advent of the optical disc brought the incredibly annoying concept of digital geographic boundaries into your living room. Movie studios were terrified of cheap imports ruining their staggered international theater releases, so they forced hardware manufacturers to hardcode physical players to specific continental regions. If you bought a European disc to play on an American machine, it stubbornly refused to work just to protect corporate profits.
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