[anon_123g987]

> [...] "A miracle of interoperability" that allowed a movie made in Hollywood to be recorded on a DVD manufactured in China to run on a player assembled in India, according to standards designed in Nederlands and Japan, playing in a home in Australia.

Well, it can be played in Australia only if its DVD region code is 4, and it cannot be played in any other countries you mentioned, which are all in different regions (USA: 1; China: 6; India: 5; the Netherlands and Japan: 2). So there's that. "A miracle of interoperability."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD_region_code

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