Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 00:24:52 +0100 From: "Julian Stacey" <jhs@jhs.muc.de> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: alk@pobox.com, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, terry@jhs.muc.de, gj@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: DVD Country Locking in drive hardware ? Message-ID: <199812092324.XAA14801@jhs.muc.de> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 06 Dec 1998 16:38:18 PST." <199812070038.QAA00880@dingo.cdrom.com>
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Hi, Mike Smith replied to someone else's: > > > > Has anyone got a DVD-RAM or other recordable DVD drive working with > > current? If so, what kind, and in what sense of 'working'? Thanks! A friend ordered a DVD drive to avoid the Jan 1st changeover to DVDs that are deliberately crippled in the DVD drive to enable "Country Locking" (apparently some scheme by Hollywood to force for instance Germans to wait (& pay for) for the German dubbed version of programmes, rather than watch the original American version. I believe this is currently done in the MPEG card, but friend speculates if you have a fast enough CPU to use instead, can avoid the lock ... ? ) I reckon there's lot's of us who'd want to access films & data in the original, regardless where we bought the media, so if this rumour is really true, maybe we (in Europe ?) should be rushing out to buy DVD drives now ? (The friend <terry@jhs.muc.de> says some DVD suppliers are already holding back sales to match new stock presumably pre-crippled with the national locks. Comments ? I'd love to be told this is not true :-) Julian -- Julian H. Stacey jhs@freebsd.org http://www.freebsd.org/~jhs/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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