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Vista won't work with regionless DVD drives
Refalm:
Oh well, I'll give this security feature 20 minutes to last :rolleyes:
cymon:
--- Quote from: piratePenguin ---What fucking asshole came up with that idea? He/She should be hung.
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I believe the MPAA, working with the hardware compaines, sony, etc. That's the thing that sucks about being in the US, is that everything is controlled by business, heck, even politics. So what they want, we get.
worker201:
The funny thing is that people in other countries just sell rips of US dvds. So if you have a region 1 player, you can play all the fun imported pirate stuff.
More interestingly, how will this move affect regionless dvds? It's pretty much only porn stuff, but still - will those play in a Microsoft-controlled computer?
KernelPanic:
--- Quote from: worker201 ---More interestingly, how will this move affect regionless dvds? It's pretty much only porn stuff, but still - will those play in a Microsoft-controlled computer?
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It should have no effect, Microsoft's actions will only effect region-free hardware (RPC-1 drives).
Regionless DVD's themselves actually have a valid region code (region 0) and work within the system, regardless of whether the hardware is multi-region or locked.
H_TeXMeX_H:
Yet another reason NOT to got Vista ... that's 1,000,000,001 reasons and counting ...
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