[H-GEN] DVD Legal Issues

[David Duffy]

Raymond Smith wrote:

>On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 12:28:05PM +1000, gearon at ieee.org wrote:
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>>Name-brand players all enforce region coding.  You have to spend less money to
>>get a player that lets you change regions on your player, and even less money
>>again to get a player that will ignore regions.
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>Admittedley I've only owned two DVD players but both my Pioneer and my
>LG work fine with Region 2 disks without any skull duggery despite the 
>packaging loudly proclaiming their adherence to zone 4. 
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I used to work for the import agent of a well known brand of DVD players.
All units were open-regioned when they arrived from O/S to avoid losing
sales to other brands that were not region locked.
David...