Inconceivable!!
So our company has put a ban on streaming media and any type of downloading of media onto our computers. Due to bandwidth issues at the moment sites like Pandora.com, Yahoo Music and YouTube have temporarily been banned from our usage. Now I work in a Marketing department and we are working on some very tedious projects that will help with future projects. I have a limited amount of cds that will work in Windows Media Player, and I cannot download my Zune software here because of work restrictions. So I am pretty close to going insane without my constant flow of music from Pandora. One of my co-workers had a great idea, Bring in DVDs and listen to those! And so I get all excited to watch The Princess Bride and my PowerDVD program tells me my region code needs to be updated. WTF is a region code? Anyways I click a bunch of buttons and voila! The Princess Bride begins! If you have never watched the Princess Bride, you should go and rent it right now. Seriously. Here's what the 20th anniversary addition looks like:
Ok I know it was made in the 80's and you might be skeptical, but really just give it a chance. It's not your typical Fairytale. I mean, what fairy tale combines the likes of Andre the Giant, Billy Crystal and Fred Savage (pre-Wonder Years) in a comedic tale with heroes, giants, villains, wizards and true love. None other than The Princess Bride. What's also funny to me is seeing Mr. Hall from the Clueless TV Series act like an evil villian.IMDB Movie Trailer:http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi2331115801/
Region codes are embedded encryption methods in DVDs that prevent pirated copies from being sold around the world, for instance the United States has a region code of "1" while the UK is region 2, etc etc. Most computers that have never had a movie type of dvd played in them need you to set your region code on the first shot.
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