From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Nov 30 15: 2:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp01.primenet.com (smtp01.primenet.com [206.165.6.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEE5737B401 for ; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 15:02:19 -0800 (PST) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp01.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA27520; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 16:01:10 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr05.primenet.com(206.165.6.205) via SMTP by smtp01.primenet.com, id smtpdAAAqBaWy1; Thu Nov 30 16:00:51 2000 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr05.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA23749; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 16:01:44 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200011302301.QAA23749@usr05.primenet.com> Subject: Re: DVD Players, and Not in a PC To: keichii@peorth.iteration.net Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 23:01:44 +0000 (GMT) Cc: cjclark@alum.mit.edu, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20001130093520.F16834@peorth.iteration.net> from "Michael C . Wu" at Nov 30, 2000 09:35:20 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > | Anyone have recommendations for a good DVD player? And a vendor? > | > | I figure consumer electronics items like DVD players have only a > | _slightly_ longer lifetime before obsolescence than your typcial PC, > | so I want something with good features, but not the top-top of the > | line for $2k that will be $500 by spring. > > http://www.world-import.com/ > They have all-region DVD players by Sony and Panasonic that actually > have excellent features/sound/video. > (Yes, it's all-region, you can watch DVD's from any place in the world.) > Hope this helps. :) Be careful. There are two flavors of "all-region". The first is "region free"; this does not work with some region encoded DVDs. The second is "variable region"; this works with all DVDs, but the region switching may not be automatic; sometimes it requires a dipswitch change, or a "hidden" menu in the onscreen remote options. Region encoding was intended to limit the ability to pirate a DVD in one region, and to sell the pirated DVDs in another; it is very common in one region in particular to priate anything that can be represented as bits (you know who you are: I have several SPAMs from there advertising things like all MS products on a set of CDROMs for $50.00). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message