CoS DVD in French

[vincentjh]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboy_mn at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, GulPlum <hp at p...> wrote:
> > At 01:30 14/03/03 , hansiregi wrote:
> 
> > ...edited...
> > 
> > I might end up buying a Dutch one, as on the day of the release, 
> > I'll be flying back to England from Africa with a lengthy stop-
off 
> > in Amsterdam.
> 
> bboy_mn:
> 
> I don't know for sure about DVD's but CD's are 'country encoded'. 
That
> means that are slight variation is the encoding format in different
> parts of the world. This is to make it harder to pirate copies of 
the
> disk. 
> 
> A CD from Japan will probably not work with US equipment. I would 
make
> sure that you aren't going to run into the same problem with DVD's. 
I
> would think they would be MORE likely to encode DVD's this way. 
> 
> Keep that in mind.
> 
> Can anyone here confirm that for us?
> 
> 
> bboy_mn

DVDs are region coded, if that's what you meant.
Europe as a whole has the same coding, regardless of countries. 
Therefore, a Dutch copy would work find with British equipment. In 
fact, a South African or Japanese copy would work, too.

http://www.pioneeraus.com.au/multimedia/dvd/dvd_region_map.htm

VJH