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

[Tom <tom(at)lemuria.org>]

On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 05:03:20PM +0200, Sham Gardner wrote:
> > actually, they thought about that, too. one of the DVD regions is
> > reserved for "international", which mostly means airplanes, but I guess
> > the big cruise ships will have DVD players set to region 9, too. (I
> > think it was region 9, but don't quote me without verifying.)
> 
> I very much doubt it, the region mask only has 8 bits. ;)

you're right, it was 8 - I found a reference:

http://hometheaterinfo.com/dvd3.htm


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