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Date:      Sun, 16 Nov 2008 16:13:13 +0100
From:      Fabian Keil <freebsd-listen@fabiankeil.de>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: "High Noonn" DVD??
Message-ID:  <20081116161313.51571fd0@fabiankeil.de>
In-Reply-To: <20081116013854.GA2977@thought.org>
References:  <20081115084600.GA4998@thought.org> <20081115123726.GA32845@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <20081116013854.GA2977@thought.org>

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Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 01:37:26PM +0100, Roland Smith 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=
 the
> > > 	*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.

> 	I just realized that last night the DVD jumped right into the Start of
> 	the film.  No FBI threats of extraordinary rendition to those who would
> 	copy, no pre-list of places to jump to.  The extra features were at the
> 	end, only.  So it's probably a bad disc. =20

There are quite a few discs that do that by design, especially older ones.
=20
Fabian

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