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From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
To: "Alastair G. Hogge" <agh@tpg.com.au>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 00:32:07 -0700
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Cc: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu>
Subject: RE: Changing the region code of DVD-Drive
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Yes, most are.  Search the Internet with google, there's many websites
that have patched firmware that locks out the region coding.  One of the
first things I do when buying a new DVD is to flash it with patched
firmware
that disables region codes.

Ted

>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
>[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Alastair G.
>Hogge
>Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 12:29 AM
>To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
>Cc: Garrett Cooper
>Subject: Re: Changing the region code of DVD-Drive
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>
>On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 07:33, Garrett Cooper wrote:
>>      I don't think that region coding really matters for Unix. But,
>> just try mplayer since from what I remember it didn't require region
>> coding at all in order to play DVDs in Linux/*BSD.
>> -Garrett
>Aren't DVD players(the hardware) region restricted thou? Does
>mplayer get
>around that?
>
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