[HPFGU-Movie] Re: CoS DVD in French

[LeeMunLim03 at aol.com]

There is a reigon dvd player that will play all dvd's from different 
countries!!  Its a hefty price too!!

Kyle Longbottom 



In a message dated 3/14/03 4:10:28 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
ms_petra_pan at yahoo.com writes:

> 
> 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. 
> 
> Are you sure that CD's are regionally 
> coded?  I could swear that I've played 
> CD's from foreign countries in my 
> American player before.  And I remember 
> playing my American CD's in other 
> countries' equipment.
> 
> DVD's, on the other hand, are usually
> regionally coded.  As I understand it, 
> this is done so that people in countries 
> that a particular movie hasn't had a 
> theatrical run in yet can't just buy the 
> DVD from the movie's country of origin 
> and skip seeing it in the theaters 
> altogether when it finally arrives.  
> This then also makes piracy that much 
> harder.
> 
> VJH:
> >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
> 
> Ooh...cool map!  Bookmarking that one now...
> 
> Petra
> a
> n  :)
> 



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