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[Mark Greenwood]

On Thursday 10 Jun 2010 20:07:16 Reinhold Rumberger wrote:
> On Thursday 10 June 2010, Knapp wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 6:31 PM, Reinhold Rumberger 
> <rrumberger at web.de> wrote:
> > > Why is there a semicolon after the "Re" in your subject line?
> > > 
> > > On Thursday 10 June 2010, Knapp wrote:
> > >> If you move to a new place, then you
> > >> can't play the DVDs in that place without changing your
> > >> player's setting. You can only do this 5 times. What happen if
> > >> you buy disks in both places? Yep, you loose one or the other.
> > > 
> > > Not true, you just need two players... :-P
> > > 
> > > Also, if you're lucky enough to get one of the older model, they
> > > aren't pre-set to a location and don't need to be set to allow
> > > playing...
> > > I can keep playing DVDs from any part of the world without
> > > problems, at least as long as this drive lasts...
> > 
> > 2 players meaning you have to pay for your css rights two times,
> > duplicate your hardware that costs a large sum and that is just if
> > you move one time. I am now at my 15th city. Thank god only in 2
> > countries so far. ;-) But what if I had been my dad? I would need
> > like 10 DVD players. LOL
> 
> Aren't there only like eight regions or so? We once got a present of 
> some DVDs from the US and we live in the EU, so we pretty much only 
> have region 2 DVDs. I'm the only one able to view those things 
> without having to be afraid that I won't be able to view any of the 
> others anymore... :-)
> My dad actually bought a USB DVD drive for US DVDs...

Do all DVD players come region-locked now? Maybe you're just buying from the wrong shops. When I bought mine (in the UK) everywhere I went said that they sell region-free players only. Maybe it's just the UK, but it seemed impossible to buy a region-locked DVD player from any self-respecting shop.

This was 10 years ago mind you. Perhaps the evil cabal of lawerccounatnts are exterting more pressure these days.

Mark

> 
> Anyway, back on topic: my aunt has a rather ancient desktop which is 
> too old to properly run XP or any other "modern" MS OS. Installed 
> Kubuntu on it and she is now not only able to watch DVDs, she can 
> actually enable some of those nifty KDE compositing effects...
> 
>   --Reinhold
> 
>