What was the last DVD that was dual encoded for R2 & 4?

[Candlelight]

Wikipedia says "as of 2009" but I don't know if that was the first release that year or just sometime that year.

The Region 2 discs released up to 2009 have also been dual coded with Region 4, so the two have been identical. This practice ceased for new releases in 2009.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who_DVD_releases

Pity. Means I can only really buy them in R4 from now on.

Not that I've bought one in 5 years...

 

[Turbo]

From what I can find on Gallifrey Base, everything up to at least the Special Edition of Remembrance of the Daleks is dual-coded. Can't find anything out past that. Apparently, the Australian distributor demanded this so they can set their own release schedule.

Fortunately, the UK and Australia have the same Blu-Ray coding, so future releases on BD won't have any issues.

 

[Rosalind]

^ oh, that's just incredibly stupid! esp. considering all DVD players sold in Australia are legally required to be region free players or have a way to be modified to be region free.

 

[Turbo]

They must be getting DMCA lessons from the US. That really sucks for y'all.

 

[Candlelight]

^ oh, that's just incredibly stupid! esp. considering all DVD players sold in Australia are legally required to be region free players or have a way to be modified to be region free.

Which means you have nothing to worry about.

 

[Rosalind]

^ oh, that's just incredibly stupid! esp. considering all DVD players sold in Australia are legally required to be region free players or have a way to be modified to be region free.

Which means you have nothing to worry about.

except the ACCC ruling doesn't affect DVD-rom players, and I watch a lot of DVD on computers.

 

[Candlelight]

You can find firmware updates that can make your players multi-region can't you?

Not sure how legit they are...

 

[Rosalind]

You can find firmware updates that can make your players multi-region can't you?

Not sure how legit they are...

or buy software that get away from the single region issue. but since I only have one DVD so far that's in R2 only, there's not much point.

 

[Candlelight]

You can find firmware updates that can make your players multi-region can't you?

Not sure how legit they are...

or buy software that get away from the single region issue. but since I only have one DVD so far that's in R2 only, there's not much point.

Depends on what Region 2 it is:

European region 2 DVDs may be sub-coded "D1" to "D4". "D1" are United Kingdom–only releases; "D2" and "D3" are not sold in the UK and Ireland; "D4" are distributed throughout Europe.