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Re: [dvd-discuss] Fox recommends multiregion (aka hacked) DVD players to UKc...

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Subject: Re: [dvd-discuss] Fox recommends multiregion (aka hacked) DVD players to UKc...
From: Sham Gardner <mail(at)risctaker.inka.de>
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 18:11:32 +0200
In-reply-to: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0207121105350.24309-100000@hex.cs.umass.edu>; from olc@cs.umass.edu on Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 11:06:51AM -0400
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On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 11:06:51AM -0400, Ole Craig wrote:
> > I very much doubt it, the region mask only has 8 bits. ;)
> 
> 	That would allow for 256 different regions. Perhaps you meant
> 3 bits?

No the value on a DVD is a an 8 bit region *mask*, not a region setting.
Which of its bits are zero determines which players it's intended to work
in.

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