HD DVD owners benefit from a lack of regional copyright protection. The upside of this is that for a few extra dollars sometimes an HD DVD owner can buy an import HD DVD of a title that is Blu Ray-exclusive in their region. The negative is that sometimes you have HD DVD covers that stick out like a sore thumb because they are in another language.

Two sites are addressing this problem by offering custom HD DVD covers for download. Both Blu Ray and HD DVD custom covers are available in the download section of Evangelos Angelides' site, and more HD DVD covers are available from Bunny Dojo. I have used custom covers for a couple of my own HD DVDs, and am pleased with the results. Both offer covers that will make great replacements for import titles, in addition to a wide variety of custom covers for domestic releases. The image files are large, and I burn them onto CD to take into a copy shop to have printed. For those of you without a CD burner, most, if not all, of the big chain copy stores have internet access, so you can download the files there in the store to have printed.

Thanks to both Evangelos and Bunny Dojo for providing a service that I'm sure many, many HD DVD enthusiasts have taken advantage of.