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Vista won't work with regionless DVD drives
mobrien_12:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/06/01/01/1021218.shtml?tid=109&tid=188&tid=137
--- Quote ---From a developer's blog, Windows Vista will no longer support DVD-ROM drives that do not handle region coding in hardware (RPC1 drives) - thus preventing playback of DVDs that are region/CSS encoded with those drives.
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I'm lucky enough to have one of those drives, so I can watch any DVD's from Europe or Japan or America that I want. But that pisses off the MPAA for some strange reason, and we all know Microsoft values the MPAA over the people who actually buy its software, so MS really doesn't want me as a customer.
Well, it's not like it makes any real difference to me. I stopped buying MS software when they put activation in it.
WMD:
I don't even understand the point of region encoding on DVDs - what exactly are they trying to accomplish?
cymon:
It's so you can't buy cheap films from another country (China?) and play them in your country, you have to pay more.
noob:
we will still have linux that will hapilly support all the stuff pista won't.
piratePenguin:
--- Quote from: cymon ---It's so you can't buy cheap films from another country (China?) and play them in your country, you have to pay more.
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What fucking asshole came up with that idea? He/She should be hung.
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