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Zones
The Purpose of zones are mainly for the sake of the movie studios, to keep movies from being widely spread into countries that the specific movie has not been released in. For instance, many movies are out in North America, finished in theatres, and available to buy before they are in, or finished in theatres in other countries. So to keep the movie out of the home market due to importing, zoning makes the movie not yet released in that country unplayable on the local players until the the studio releases it for that zone.
The Drawbacks are mainly for the movie buyers who enjoy imported/foriegn films. With zoning the person wishing to purchase the movie may have to wait longer for the film to be released in their specific zone. Smaller studios may although not choose to release a film in all zones, or if a movie does not do well in one zone, it may not get released in others.
However, DVDs can be released coded for several zones or even all. Players have been known to be imported, allowing those purchasing them to watch movies released in the same country as the player was released in. And on the not so legal end of things, some players have been "hacked" into allowing them to play movies from all or several zones.
The map below shows the 6 zones in which the world of DVD has been divided into.
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