On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 09:02:57AM -0700, Tracy R Reed wrote:
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> Lan Barnes wrote:
> > This included DVDs bought in China of movies so hot they haven't even
> > been made yet, let alone released to disc.
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> I would not expect those disks to be region encoded since they are not
> from a legit source in the first place. Have you gone to a store in
> China, bought an officially released disk intended for the Chinese
> market and tried to play it in a US bought DVD player? Your Linux box
> doesn't count as it probably has DeCSS loaded which can decrypt the
> region encoding.
> 

You have a point. We bought a couple of mainstream Chinese movies
(Classics: "Not One Less" and "Together"), but haven't tried them yet.

Even if they region them out in the CD player, the new Myth box (under
construction) should neatly sidestep that.

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Lan Barnes                    [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Linux Guy, SCM Specialist     858-354-0616


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