Re: region code in cdrecord

From: Chuck Robey (chuckr_at_chuckr.org)
Date: 04/24/05

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    Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 19:53:20 +0000
To: Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org>

    Tim Kientzle wrote:
    > Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
    >
    >> Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org> writes:
    >>
    >>> ... converting a region==2 dvd to a region==1
    >>> dvd (Britain to US). I have a dvd taht you can't buy in the US,
    >>> I've tried, and the British won't sell it in region code 1 ...
    >>
    >>
    >> Just unlock your player. Google should provide you with the correct
    >> procedure.
    >
    >
    > With cheap DVD players down to about $50, just buy another
    > player and set it to Region 2.

    There are so many bad assumptions here!

    bad#1: that all dvd players come with secret decoder rings to change
    their region code.

    bad#2: that ANY of them do. A very small amount of dvd players have the
    ability to add patches to them, these all (in every case) need you to
    run Windows code to get these patches installed, and I don't run
    Windows, anywhere, anytime.

    bad#3: that I have the time and willingness to talk my good friend, the
    really truly stubborn one who doesn't' know computers so well, that his
    dvd player should change. He and I are family, and I just need to
    present him with clean copy. This should be a software thing, not
    hardware, just so I don't need to argue with my friend over that.

    I just spent a LOT of unfun time on google over this. I would rather
    spend days fixing cdrecord than minutes on the hardware, or telling
    folks who I don't want to boot Windows

    >
    > Tim
    >

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