On Thu, 9 Jan 2003 05:13:03 -0800 (PST), alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Bill Stewart wrote: > >> At 03:54 PM 01/08/2003 +0100, Martin Olsson wrote: >> >Hi, >> >I dont know if this is relevant to the discussion, but in Sweden (not a >> >region-1 country) people where so pissed at the regionsystem (and the fact >> >that most computer geeks could go around it, but the average person could >> >not) that the whole region concept had to be removed. Ie. this forced the >> >large companies to rethink and nowadays we have commercial region-free DVD >> >players in most stores. >> >> That's an interesting change - a couple of years ago, >> friends from Sweden told me that the standard was to >> strictly sell only region-enforcing DVD players >> and then charge a bit extra for installing the >> region-free mod chips that everybody bought. >> I guess they've stopped bothering with the games by now. > >I wonder how they deal with the RCE (Region Code Enforced) discs? > >RCE is a sceme that causes the disc not to work in region free players. >If you want a good test disc, try the region 1 version of "Spider-man". >In a region free player it will bring up a map of region codes and make >nasty noises about how you need a region one player. The disc works fine >in players where you can set the region. (Some region ocdeless players >can do this, some cannot.) > >You can find places that sell region free players by searching on Google >for "Apex region free DVD". The only one I have used is >www.220-electronics.com and I will not order from their insecure web page. Googling for code-free or region-free turns up quite a few. The most handy is buyers guide site <http://www.dvdbuyingguide.com> with links to www.codefreedvd.com www.regionfreedvd.com www.zonefreedvd.com (Ya, they all look like the same site.) www.kimsvideo.com has a $140 player with instructions on how to make it region-free without swapping proms. Worth a look. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
