On 27 March 2009 16:45:22 Bret Busby wrote: > Hello. > > As is shown by my signature, I am in Australia. > > Some of the DVD's of movies that I want to buy, are apparently available > only from amazon, USA or UK. > > For whatever reason, multimedia DVD's have this horrid Region Code > thing, apparently designed to stop Australian audiovisual DVD players > from playing DVD's that are vavailable only from countries such as the > USA or UK, that have Region Codes that are incompatible with DVD players > for television sets. > > >From > > http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/help/customer/display.html?ie=UTF8&nodeId=502554 > , > Region 1 - USA and Canada > Region 2 - UK, Europe, Japan, South Africa and Middle East > Region 4 - Australia, New Zealand, Central and South America > > Apparently, multimedia applications, such as Totem MPlayer, in Debian > can play movies that are recorded on DVD's. > > Are these movie players able to read and play DVD's from any and all > Region Codes, or, are they limited to particular region codes? > > I want to know that, before I start buying movies on DVD's from other > Region Codes, so that I will not end up with movies on DVD's, that I > cannot use. > > Thank you in anticipation. > > -- > Bret Busby
@ftc-p01:~$ aptitude search region p regionset - view and modify the region code of DVD dri Thierry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
