Engadget reports that in the “DVD Forum Japan Conference 2005″ held in Japan today, statement from Toshiba Digital Media Networks, Hisashi Yamada was particularly intriguing: “We’ve gotten a variety of opinions about region controls. Even in the Steering Committee, they are extremely unpopular; we decided to not put them in. HD DVD probably won’t contain any region playback controls.

Source: Engadget