At least some of those people don't have multi-region players.
But do they have a chunk of HD space and a halfway decent ripping app? The former's cheap and the latter's free. Throw the patched VOBs into software player of choice, and Robert is your parent's sibling.
At least some of the R1 B5 is reportedly all-region, so standards would be the issue moreso than region crippling on standalone players. (Many crippled standalones will do PAL-60, though, for reasons I've never been clear on.)
The idea of R2 being more convenient in an R2 country is not something which would occur to me, though. I can't imagine anyone in this country deliberately opting for a region-crippled player of any sort when region-free ones are available on the high street and it's a piece of piss to buy from other regions.
Further, I've gotten the impression that the effects transfers were better handled on the R1 sets, which is why I'll be pursuing the S1-3 R1 metabox should finances allow (especially after seeing just how bad the effects transfers were on the R2/4 S1 set's first pressing!).
The hard disk option isn't what you want if you have a 15" monitor attached to a computer with a hard chair in front of it in one room, and a 30"ish telly in front of an enormous comfy sofa in the other! I know you keep a computer near the TV and sofa for exactly this purpose, but it's not everyone's setup...
As for deliberately opting for a region-crippled player: there is one very common region-crippled DVD player, which is the PS2. If you already have one of those for purposes of playing games, there's no need to buy a separate DVD player unless some awkward soul goes and lends you an R1 DVD :-)
But...but...but there are region workarounds for the PS2... and PS2s can and should be chipped, because who the hell wants to restrict themselves to the dismal UK games market and its Dancing Stage and its horrid release delays and its occasionally castrated games ... and...and...and... *splut*
The hard disk option may not be ideal, but it does the job. (And I get around the "hard chair" problem in the bedroom by either switching chairs or using the bed.)
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But do they have a chunk of HD space and a halfway decent ripping app? The former's cheap and the latter's free. Throw the patched VOBs into software player of choice, and Robert is your parent's sibling.
At least some of the R1 B5 is reportedly all-region, so standards would be the issue moreso than region crippling on standalone players. (Many crippled standalones will do PAL-60, though, for reasons I've never been clear on.)
The idea of R2 being more convenient in an R2 country is not something which would occur to me, though. I can't imagine anyone in this country deliberately opting for a region-crippled player of any sort when region-free ones are available on the high street and it's a piece of piss to buy from other regions.
As for deliberately opting for a region-crippled player: there is one very common region-crippled DVD player, which is the PS2. If you already have one of those for purposes of playing games, there's no need to buy a separate DVD player unless some awkward soul goes and lends you an R1 DVD :-)
The hard disk option may not be ideal, but it does the job. (And I get around the "hard chair" problem in the bedroom by either switching chairs or using the bed.)