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Posted by jayembee on 08/28/06 14:58
"Geoff" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:
> Two questions:
>
> 1. When the entertainment industry decided to divide the world into
> regions, why would all the dvd hardware manufacturers go along with
> it?
Because the studios insisted on region-coding as a condition for them
releasing material on DVD. (Keep in mind that at the time, no one
expected DVDs to be as big a hit with consumers as they were.) The
manufacturers went along with it because they wouldn't sell any
players if there wasn't anything to play on them.
> Why do some manufacturers not go along with it?
Because they called the studios' bluff.
> 2. Say a DVD is region 2, PAL. If someone had a dvd player that
> plays all regions on their computer connected to an lcd screen via
> dvi, does it matter if the dvd is pal or ntsc?
No. And most standalone players that can be made region-free through
a hack can convert one format to the other.
-- jayembee
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