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

[Richard Hartman <hartman(at)onetouch.com>]

So it would be possible to produce a DVD intended for
region 1 -or- 2 play, but not for play in region 3?

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-Richard M. Hartman
hartman@onetouch.com

186,000 mi./sec ... not just a good idea, it's the LAW!


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sham Gardner [mailto:mail@risctaker.inka.de]
> Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 9:12 AM
> To: dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu
> Subject: Re: [dvd-discuss] Fox recommends multiregion (aka hacked) DVD
> players to UKc...
> 
> 
> 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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