I recently bought a powerbook and have now discovered this particular problem with encoding when i watch DVDs. I live in region 3 and can watch most region 3 DVDs on region 1 encoding. But the problem comes with distribution of international releases. I can get a fair bit of good stuff in Region 3, but a lot of it I will need to buy and have bought on the net, including the latest Im Kwon Taek release, Chunhyang, which I got from Amazon (not available in Region 3 yet). Unfortunately, I only have 5 switches on the DVD player, after which, I won't be able to watch some of the DVDs I actually own. What do you folks do about this? Why the hell was this particular technology rigged in this way? Sorry to bug the list about this, but I'm curious if there might be a solution other than having to buy two DVD players. BTW, congrats to Im Kwon Taek on his winning best director at Cannes. Highly deserved. _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com
the DVDs I actually own. What do you folks do about this? Why the hell was this particular technology rigged in this way? Sorry to bug the list about
So that you would be able to change your region & get it right before it's finalized which is certainly more fair than one or two strikes and you're stuck. While I don't really like the idea of region coding it does make sense, more so than copy protection schemes. I suspect region coding will eventually be abandoned: it's widely ignored in Europe and Australia has been threatening a lawsuit against Hollywood studios about it. LT ----------------------------- Violinist Bauer-Lechner on Mahler: "The first thing he composed on paper at the age of six was a polka, to which he added a funeral march as an introduction." The Funhouse Journal http://wlt4.home.mindspring.com/blog/journal.htm
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