It's always been a source of frustration to me that DVDs I buy abroad usually won't work on DVD players or computers back home due to the regional coding (in North America, we can only play Region 1 or Region 0 [universal] discs on our machines). I discovered a work-around, however, that enables me to watch foreign DVDs (like the two British television series above, which I picked up from Amazon U.K.) on my iBook (or on any computer, for that matter). VideoLAN is an application that is free to download and provides the capacity to watch DVDs coded for other regions as easily as domestic releases. In fact, in full-screen mode, one can't tell the difference!
