Censorship by the BBC?

["Richard M. Smith" <rms () computerbytesman com>]

Hi,

One of my favorite shows on television was the 1980 BBC mini-series called
"Oppenheimer".  It is a docudrama that tells the history of the Manhattan
Project.  I have been waiting forever for the series to come out on tape or
DVD.  The BBC finally released the series on a 3-set DVD this past summer.
The set is only being sold in the UK, but this is no big deal in the age of
Amazon and FedEx.  I was able to order the set from Amazon UK and had it
sent to the U.S. in a couple of days.

However, for reasons unknown, the DVDs are region coded so that it can be
played only in Europe.  This form of censorship makes no sense at all
especially from a news organization like the BBC.  Although, the Oppenheimer
DVDs won't play on my regular DVD player, they play just fine on my computer
with a number of different DVD player software packages.  It's nice to see
that the computer industry is not buying into the silly idea of
region-coding censorship.

Here's a bit more about the Oppenheimer DVD set at Amazon UK:

   http://tinyurl.com/ya26x5

Richard M. Smith
http://www.ComputerBytesMan.com

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