[rescue] OK, step one of the purge in New Jersey...

[Gregory Leblanc]

On Mon, 2001-11-05 at 15:40, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 01:28:17PM -0500, Chad Fernandez wrote:
> > What are these regions?  I want to get a DVD player, and I have no idea
> > what you are talking about.  Is this something that applies to stand
> > alone players or a PC DVD drive?  I want a stand alone player....anybody
> > have a good recommendation for one?  
> 
> DVDs are region locked.  For instance, Region 1 is the US.  Region 4 is
> australia.  I think region 2 is Japan.
> 
> The discs from one region won't work in the players for another
> region.  So, I can't buy movies from China which are likely to be much
> cheaper than the american release, and an Aussie can't buy american discs
> to watch movies that aren't available there yet.
[snip]

Does this apply to just the DVD decoder?  As I understand it, most of
the DVD drives for PCs don't have a decoder, you get that as a separate
card, or run software decoding.  If I'm running software decoding, can I
get it to ignore regions?
	Greg