Video Asylum

Posted by David Spear (i) on July 31, 2000 at 18:03:57:

In Reply to: Re: Region-free DVD players -- does everybody know this but me? posted by JCW on July 31, 2000 at 02:12:35:

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!