Praise DeCSS
So this arrived in the mail yesterday. Despite the fact that it's for Region 2/4 and in PAL (not NTSC), thanks to the miracles of Opensource I was able to fire it right up and play.
/me huggles mplayer & kaffeine
Later tonight or this weekend I'll be mucking with the region-free hack for the Philips DVP-642 player I bought after my last DVD player died. The player is nice since it will play DiVX/XViD/MP3/AVI/etc from burnt discs and will do PAL->NTSC internally. Shiny.
Now to find the time to watch the Dystopian low-budget sci-fi goodness that is Blakes 7. I also need to try and resist the temptation to buy the second season from Amazon.