William T Goodall wrote:
On 1 Aug 2009, at 09:12, KZK wrote:
> Dr. Brin Wrote:
...
> True, copyright piracy is (generally) bad. But the bloody
> inconvenience and blithering incomprehensibility of simply using a
> modern DVD player to watch a film that you already own - let alone
...
I don't get why you would consider this to be so. DVD's are very
simple: You put a disc (made the same way a CD is for 1 layer discs)
into a device and close the door. The machine plays the Disc. This
usually involves a non-bypassable FBI warning
...
DVD region codes. NTSC or PAL? Stereo or 5.1? Dolby or DTS? Component
or HDMI? Upscale to 720P or 1080i?
William-- I agree with you on some, and want to add an
item.
DVD region codes: Not in the consumer's interest. I wound up buying
my wife a multiregion DVD player, just so we could watch German DVDs.
NTSC vs. PAL: Not a fair criticism. That mess was created a LONG
time ago, and was also a problem with VHS tapes. (A bigger problem,
since the players were analog.)
The others you list: It's still possible to just go with the defaults
there.
That non-bypassable FBI and/or Interpol warning: This is actually
a loss for DVDs. With VHS, you could ALWAYS fast-forward. Why
aren't there hacks to skip the start-up warnings on DVDs?
---David
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