Jason Holt wrote:
On Mon, 7 Nov 2005, Brandon Beattie wrote:
If all you'll be doing is playing DVD's I believe it's a better choice
to use a good dvd player. Reasons include having a dedicated clock for
One disadvantage of DVD players is that they enforce the movie
industry's megalomaniacal ideas about when you should be able to fast
forward, visit the menu, or back up your DVDs. Drives me crazy every
time I watch a movie and have to watch the freakin' studio logo for 10
seconds.
Agreed. I used to have an old Sony DVD player that would ignore most of
the studio's "do not skip" flags. It was pretty nice. Even my current
Sony player will still let me skip about half of them.
As far as the regional DVDs, you can change your PC DVD player's region
using regionset[1] a few times. Then just rip the DVD, and re-burn.
Or you could just buy a region-free DVD player.
Steve
1. http://linvdr.org/projects/regionset/
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