[H-GEN] DVD Legal Issues

[Geoff Shang]

Robert Brockway wrote:

> Speaking of this - does anyone know is DVD players in Aus are enforcing
> region encoding?  I'd like to bring back a few Region 1 DVDs with me next
> time I travel, but only if they are going to work :)

I bought a player 18 months ago and had no trouble finding a player that 
did not enforce region encoding.

Note that you'll still need to be able to play NTSC pictures in order to 
view region 1 discs, which is probably more of an issue.

Geoff.