regional lockout

regional lockout

English

Etymology

Coined by the video game community and opponents of the lockout practice. The practice originated with and was devised by the video game industry and was later adopted by the film industry with the advent of DVDs.

Noun

regional lockout (countable and uncountable, plural regional lockouts)

1. (video games, DVD) The programming practice, code, or chip used to prevent the playing of imported media on a domestically marketed device.

Related terms

• regional converter
• region-free

Translations

prevents the playing of imported media on a domestically marketed device

Chinese: 地方停工 (defang ting-gong) Dutch: regionale uitsluiting French: verrouillage régional, codage régional German: regionale Aussperrung Greek: περιφερειακή ανταπεργία (perifereiakí antapergía) Italian: bloccaggio regionale, codifica regionale Japanese: 地方閉鎖 (chihōheisa) Korean: 지역 차단 (jiyeok chadan) Russian: регионарное замыка́ние (regionarnoje zamykánije), регионарное зашифрование (regionarnoje zašifrovanije) Spanish: cierre regional, codificación regional

Further reading

• regional lockout on Wikipedia.Wikipedia