Posted by ThePunisher on 05/19/07 14:38

POD {ҿ�} wrote:
> FoggyTown <foggytown@aol.com> once tried to test me. I ate their liver
> with some fava beans and a nice chianti
>
>> Greetings to the Group!
>>
>> Perhaps someone in here can answer a technical question for me. I'm
>> finally going to break down and buy a cheap-ish DVD player to hook up
>> to the TV. I will want to play commercial DVDs and also ones that I
>> make myself frim handycam videos. (This is in the UK>)
>>
>> The question: is there any difference between players that are
>> specced as "multi-regional" and those that are "region-free"? Also,
>> I've been reading some buyer reviews and there seem to be instances
>> where some players can accommodate other regions but certain
>> combinations of numbers have to be hit on the remote - but it's
>> explained almost like it's arcane knowledge that wasn't advised in
>> the usuer manual.
>>
>> Many thanx,
>>
>> FoggyTown
>>
>
> Bit late coming to the party Foggy! But welcome anyhow.
>
> Both phrases mean the same thing "Refuse Engineer" = "Binman"
>
> Cheggers is wrong, a disc that is region free simply doesn't have the
> region coding on the disc and so will play in any player in the world.
> Colin kinda brushes on a issue that may be relevant, in that when the
> player and the disc talk to each other, some discs may not work with
> the player that claims to be region free. The best players are the
> ones that lie and will claim to be the same region as the disc in it
> "You're region 1, hey I'm reagion 1 too!" But this is only important
> to a hand full of discs that had this RCE thing on it, but they are
> so few and far between,

A common misconception, they do not talk to each other, it's a one way
conversation, the disc talks and the player listens.

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ThePunisher

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