Re: [CH] Dutch chile show
VoodooChile (rael64@qwest.net)
Sun, 23 Mar 2003 15:34:30 -0700
On Sunday, March 23, 2003, at 03:01 PM, =Mark wrote:
> At 06:15 AM 3/23/2003 -0800, RisaG wrote:
>> Congratulations Dewi! Sounds like it was a great show.
>> Hope to see it one day!
>>
>> Someone make a DVD or a VHS out of it quickly once
>> Dewi sends one to the US!!!
>
> I don't know if it's the same with DVD, but VHS tapes made in Europe
> must be converted from the PAL format to NTSC to be viewed in the US.
> I had to do the reverse when I sent Dewi a VHS copy of "Eat the Heat."
Not positive, but I think it's as bad, maybe worse. DVD players are
encoded for specific regions, I believe. A player "sets" itself
initially to where one is (I'd assume the US, for example, is a region
in and of itself entirely) and allows changes/resetting a specific
number of times. Believe my player on my laptop "told me" it could be
reset a max number of 3 times and the, I assume, is "locked" in
whatever final region it is set. Okay, yeah, something like this (see:
http://www.webwombat.com/entertainment/dvds/dvdregions.htm). There are
multi-region players out there.
So for me, I think I could play a "foreign" DVD, my player resetting
itself, and then play a DVD from the US, again my player resetting
itself, and then I may be forever locked into this region. I rather
dislike that simply on principle.
Then again, I wonder if such encoding/security feature (what this
region crap supposedly is/was) translates onto DVDs made by
individuals? Beats me...
Peace, Hendrix, and Chiles.......
Rael64
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