[NTLUG:Discuss] Fluendo has legal DVD player for sale, DVD units may have the flu though

[Chris Cox]

Daniel Hauck wrote:
> Region coding is set in the hardware of the DVD drive.  I have run into
> problems with clearing or setting to region 0 to make a drive region
> free where some playback software or even recording software did not
> want to make use of a drive set this way.
> 
> Another approach is to set the RPC drive type to RPC-1.  Somehow that
> has the same effect as switching to region 0.
> 
> I personally require region free drive access since I regularly use
> region 1 and region 2 DVDs.  (My wife is Japanese and we're trying to
> teach our son both Japanese and English)  Besides that, I hate region
> coding.  Some people think it's a form of censorship but that's not
> true.  It is a price control device enabling the same movie to be sold
> at different prices in different markets.  Some nations have legislated
> that region codes are illegal and do not allow region coded players to
> be sold in their borders.  (So buying a DVD player or other such thing
> from one of those nations would give you a region free player legally)

Perhaps I should restate.  Fluendo appears to require a region set
drive.  Thus a region 0 drive does not appear to work.

I could be wrong... fluendo support isn't quite ready for prime time...
but I have sent them an email.  I'll let you know what they say.