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In Reply to: Region-free DVD players -- does everybody know this but me? posted by David Spear on July 29, 2000 at 23:11:15:
The software companies are pushing the hardware manufactures to put in the regional code thing but all hardware companies I know of leave some room to make their DVDs restriction free...and its not economical to make so many versions. It ends up that most DVD players are factory ready fo all code, or locally modified (as simple as a switch or a hidden sequence of buttons) but all support by factory. Nothing new.
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Thanks for the explanation. I thought that region-coding and Macrovision were licensing requirements for ALL manufacturers of DVD players, and that region-free, Macrovision-disabled units were only available as "gray market" or "cracked" products. That's why I was surprised that the Kones DVD-3000 comes that way from the factory. The user's manual, ironically, makes a big deal about regional restrictions and the inability to copy DVDs to videotape!
I agreed with their copy restriction but against the regional code. The regional code is for parallel import and protection of regional distributors but with the internet, there shouldn't be any regional restriction! What about those portable DVD players....
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