Blockbuster’s president want an end to DVD region codes

No less a personage than Nigel Travis , the president and COO of Blockbuster , is calling for the ending of part coded DVD ( that galling system which make it hard to toy DVDs from other section of the humankind on a videodisc player here ) , saying they encourage piracy :

“ The extra time on windows make by regional coding is an chance that pirates overwork . ” Travis , the keynote talker at the annual two - day Perspectives in European Video conference taking place here , cite “ Finding Nemo , ” which was free on video and DVD in the United States on Nov. 4 but will not be usable in the United Kingdom until March 18 . “ That is a five - calendar month spread and an obvious case where people are lead to take advantage , ” Travis said .

We fit that part encoding should be done away with , but mainly because we desire to be capable to buy DVDs from overseas and be able-bodied to watch them without having to track down a region - gratis videodisk player .