[Free-sklyarov-uk] Region Coding Enhancement on DVDs
David Damerell
damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Wed, 14 Nov 2001 21:47:40 +0000 (GMT)
On Wednesday, 14 Nov 2001, Jim Peters wrote:
>This is a new development in DVDs that is designed to stop DVDs
>playing on multi-region DVD players (as pointed out by <tolon> on IRC
>just now). More details can be found here:
> http://www.dvdtalk.com/rce.html
Eh, RCE's hardly new. Better uncrippled players can be set to either
region-free or region-switchable; and apparently reaction from the US
market (with uncrippled players) to being unable to play R1 discs was
so bad that the idea's been largely abandoned.
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