Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 21:38:38 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: dg@root.com Cc: dfr@nlsystems.com, tlambert@primenet.com, hasty@rah.star-gate.com, julian@whistle.com, dom@myrddin.demon.co.uk, osa@etrust.ru, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Quake-client on FreeBSD-3.0 ?? Message-ID: <199809252138.OAA17404@usr04.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199809251444.HAA24501@implode.root.com> from "David Greenman" at Sep 25, 98 07:44:38 am
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> >> It's OK; if you follow the DVD specific lists, then you know how > >> to change the region code on most avaiable hardware. If your > >> hardware doesn't support this, well, shame on you... > > > >Terry.. The region code is a particular encryption of the data on the > >disk. The various wirehead tricks for hacking players are irrelavent to a > >software DVD decoder. You need the right encryption keys from the spec > >document to get the data and to get the spec you need to sign an NDA and > >hand over $5000 to Toshiba. > > If that is true, then how is it that early Sony '7000 units had an internal > switch to disable region coding (i.e. play all regions)? I believe it was the lists at www.dvdexpress.com that had an articale on the Panasonic A310's ability to set the region code using a set of "hidden" options in the first onscreen menu (you hit some key that was not obviously useful [index?] in the first menu, and then you hit a number key 1 through 6, or something like that... But theat particular player is not PAL capable, and it would cost you in excess of three dollars to add Dolby... ;-). 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-current" in the body of the message
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