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DVD Region Codes vs. Blu-Ray Region Codes



This is the DVD region map (according to Wikipedia).

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And here’s the Blu-Ray region one, a few years later.

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Is there some hidden geopolitical significance in this? Did South America fall to NATCOMSAT or some such Orwellian mapping of the world that we just aren’t aloud to know about? The first map looks like a middle-stage game of Risk, and the second one moving towards end-game…







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