Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3100 mails)

[Rich G <rgoodwin1@xxxxxxx>]

I have some region-free DVD player, non-computer DVD players, after some
simple hacks.  Sampo is the line I like from ease to hack perspective.
The 613CF (Compact Flash reader included) simply needs a DVD containing
a file structure with a directory.  The directory name indictaes regino
0 - i.e. region free.  You can google or use whichever search tool you
like for region-free DVD player.  That should get you started.  The site
I used was http://www.area450.com (they have shutdown but activity
continues in forums).  

Rich

On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 08:55 -0800, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-03-19 at 09:23 -0600, Alan Dowley wrote:
> > > It would be nice if that regional coding had an expiry date.  For
> > > example a DVD could be played anywhere 2 years after release.  This
> > > would accomodate such market protection, while allowing full use of
> > > purchased DVDs.  As it stands now, what happens when someone buys
> > > several DVDs and moves to a different area?  If they move from Europe to
> > > North America, they'll likely have to buy a new player and won't be able
> > > to play their movies.
> > > 
> > I have 2 DELL Laptops, one with WinXP (cough) and one with Linux 9.3 
> > (hurrah).
> > The Linux one plays DVD's from any region and does not affect the region 
> > code of the player. The windows does and lets me change it up to 6 times 
> > before it fixes to the last one. I can even run a DELL option to 
> > manually change this. As there are region free DVD players when is 
> > someone gong to come up with a way of flashing and DVD player and make 
> > it region fee???
> > 
> And where would I find such a region free player?  For myself i would
> rather play them on TV and not on the computer as the screen is getting
> old and is small anyway.
> 
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