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HOLLYWOOD still clings to the hugely unpopular regional coding system that is supposed to stop people in Europe and Australia watching movie DVDs intended for distribution only in the US. The object of the exercise is of course to allow Hollywood to release movies in the US before the rest of the world. The practical result is that many DVD players sold in Europe and Australia are “hacked” so that they defeat regional coding and can play imported North American discs.

A British video magazine we know recently received a review copy of a movie called Assassination Tango, from MGM’S…

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