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Re: Re: RedHat 5.2 (DVD support)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lloyd Parsons)
Mon Oct 19 11:53:54 1998
From: "Lloyd Parsons" <lparsons@GlobalEyes.net>
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Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 10:58:13 -0500
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The movies are regionalized, but the region encompasses a broad area. For
instance, the US and canada are all included in one region. I don't
remember if Mexico was included in that region or not.
Lloyd
-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin M. Myer <myer@mail.elanco.k12.pa.us>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Monday, October 19, 1998 10:41 AM
Subject: <OFF> Re: RedHat 5.2 (DVD support)
>Hi,
>
>From the research I've done on DVD (I was originally going to get one when
>I built my box), DVD support for Linux is going to be a long time in
>coming. While conceptually, support for such drives that support DVD-RAM
>for example isn't difficult, across the board support for DVD stuff won't
>come soon. All standards things aside, entertainment moguls are
>supposedly releasing copies of movies that will only work in certain
>geographic regions - ie your DVD drive (or card that does the MPEG stuff)
>was made on the east coast and thus will read only movies encoded for the
>east coast. I can't validate that and it would seem silly to me to do
>that, since I'm liable to buy hardware from California over the Internet
>(and I live in PA). But it would strike me as something the entertainment
>business would do - require some sort of localization chip to make
>something work. I guess that all really does boil down to standards -
>until something becomes standard, its hard to offer more than proprietary
>support fo it.
>
>Feel free to correct me - I'm in no way an expert on this and perhaps I
>just ran across someone's FUD about this whole subject when I was
>researching the viability of getting DVD hardware support when I was
>building my Linux box.
>
>Kevin
>
>
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