For anyone who's ever tried to play a foreign film and been confronted with the dreaded region lock, there's now an easy way to free your DVD player without invalidating your warranty. From the innocuously titled DVDexploder:

"This service has been created to free players from domestic region locks, added by manufacturers to control movie distribution. This is achieved by tapping one of our simple DVD codes into your machine using its handset controller. Once the DVD unlock has been successfully entered, your player will become region free. Multi-region unlock codes will free the power of your machine and allow you play movies from anywhere in the world - in seconds."