Censorship on CDs is common in Malaysia. What some people do, is buy the CDs online or abroad. Sometimes, for boxsets and the like, it's more worth it to go that way.

As for regional encoding, AFAIK most players manufactured in Malaysia are "region-free" meaning they can play any disc from any region in the world. Perhaps your player is slightly older? I've bought original DVDs from ebay several times, from several regions, and subscribe to eflix (malaysia's answer to netflix) and my DVD player has no problems playing any of the content.

I can't say I agree with region encoding, but game publishers and movie studios needed a mechanism to control questionable content (censorship) as well as ensure their revenue streams aren't affected by parallel imports - RCE provided them with this ability.

This post has been edited by Lord_Ashe: Oct 5 2006, 03:08 PM

I agree with you my friend. Unfortunately as I've mentioned above publishers and studios want to make the most money out of their products. For example, if there was no Region Encoding enforced, no one will buy US versions of games since the Asian versions are much cheaper, etc.