The end of region encoding

You know, the one that prevents you from getting games from a different region and playing them on your very own PS2.

Well the head of Sony’s South Pacific operation said

“If you look at the fact that it will support high-definition TV, which will be a global standard, there’s a good likelihood that it will be global region, as for example we’ve done with the PSP (PlayStation Portable),”

Mr Ephraim said.…In 2001 SCEA filed a law suit against Eddy Stevens who supplied “mod chips” that circumvent the console’s protection measures and allowing the consoles to play discs for other market regions and pirated game discs. Sony argued that the chips were primarily to support piracy and asked the court to declare them illegal. However, the ACCC intervened in the case arguing that region coding system was an artificial trade barrier that unfairly blocked consumers’ access to games from other markets which are often cheaper.

This means we should be able to play games from all over the world in the near future. This will be awesome as we know that Japan get the games first so we can get them too.

Now where did i put my Japanese dictionary?