The DVD Forum, those lovely people who safeguard your right to pay higher
prices for narrower ranges of DVD titles, are moving to
stamp out rogue DVD players with
easily bypassable region enforcement. From October 1, DVD players will have
to be certified compliant with region coding to bear the DVD logo. Mind
you, this could just lead to a class of rogue "digital video disc" players,
which are just like DVD players only cheaper and more hackable.
(Also, I wonder whether this will mean that official DVD players will be
illegal in New Zealand, where region-enforcing players are apparently
considered defective merchandise.)