31 Mar
2001
31 Mar
'01
11:33 p.m.
--- John Woodard mail@johnwoodard.co.uk wrote:
Plenty of de-regionalized stand alone players on the market. Is your DVD drive firmware fixed or can it be de-regonalized by a flash upgrade? Mine can't so I'm stuck with region 2. :(
Am I right in thinking that the regionalisation is all tied up with the encryption and that different region players have different decryption keys?
Assuming the above is true, and given that I beleive computer DVD players send the encrypted stream to the computer, then in the case of a computer DVD player it would be the software that would determine regionalisation. If that is the case I would expect the Linux players to be multi-region.
Steve.