From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Nov 30 15:28:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from peorth.iteration.net (peorth.iteration.net [208.190.180.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58A4437B401 for ; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 15:28:44 -0800 (PST) Received: by peorth.iteration.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id E21AC573A9; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 17:28:43 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 17:28:43 -0600 From: "Michael C . Wu" To: Terry Lambert Cc: cjclark@alum.mit.edu, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DVD Players, and Not in a PC Message-ID: <20001130172843.A28757@peorth.iteration.net> Reply-To: "Michael C . Wu" Mail-Followup-To: "Michael C . Wu" , Terry Lambert , cjclark@alum.mit.edu, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20001130093520.F16834@peorth.iteration.net> <200011302301.QAA23749@usr05.primenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200011302301.QAA23749@usr05.primenet.com>; from tlambert@primenet.com on Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 11:01:44PM +0000 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 5025 F691 F943 8128 48A8 5025 77CE 29C5 8FA1 2E20 X-PGP-Key-ID: 0x8FA12E20 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 11:01:44PM +0000, Terry Lambert scribbled: | 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. I actually bought a set from them, they are of the former type. :) | 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). Yes, I know, it is Region 6, China. But like all methods designed to prevent piracy, DVD has failed. -- +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | keichii@peorth.iteration.net | keichii@bsdconspiracy.net | | http://peorth.iteration.net/~keichii | Yes, BSD is a conspiracy. | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message