Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 13:47:14 +0100 From: Fabian Keil <fk@fabiankeil.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "High Noonn" DVD?? Message-ID: <20081115134714.1537e2bc@fabiankeil.de> In-Reply-To: <20081115123726.GA32845@slackbox.xs4all.nl> References: <20081115084600.GA4998@thought.org> <20081115123726.GA32845@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
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--Sig_/ny4/nyaa80/1TIIG71zquWm Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 15 Nov 2008 13:37:26 +0100, Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 12:46:03AM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > >=20 > > Do any of you guys know why the DVD version of HIGH NOON won't play on= my > > computers? I've tried everything I can think of. Zero. I watched t= he > > *original* in the theater (I think); then have watched the tape in '98, > > and the DVD just now. I'm not that nutty to waste a DVD-R on it; I'm > > just wondering my none of my players won't play it. >=20 > Different region? Most players are locked to a certain region, and won't > play disks from other regions. Although it is possible to install > upgraded or modified firmware that removes the region encoding, that > usually needs a windows program. And it can brick your player when done > incorrectly. IIRC respecting the region is only necessary for players with a licensed CSS implementation. If the player cracks CSS anyway, it usually ignores the region as well so messing with the firmware shouldn't be necessary. Fabian --Sig_/ny4/nyaa80/1TIIG71zquWm Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkkexNIACgkQSMVSH78upWObBgCcD52fA93XXP28oJ5Td2T3pTMo e+MAnjkEG57oPlXDb5XgG8/MHAFA0ii3 =4DMu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/ny4/nyaa80/1TIIG71zquWm--
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