At a pre-holiday dinner last night with some technically proficient friends last night, the subject of DVD auto region setting came up. Since this applies to all who use DVD readers/burners in their computers, it may not be even as OT as esoteric audio speakers (having ear of tin, I don't rise above those ubiquitous little $15 stereo squawkers). And this forum is as good a place to ask as any I know, considering the available savvy freely and eloquently exercised here!
Many of these devices let you play (or presumably record) any region DVD, but then "lock in" automatically on one region after 3 or 4 changes. Presumably this is an industry-mandated observance of the absurd (IMHO) division of the world into "regions" capable of playing only DVDs in those markets. Suppose your fourth choice (or whichever one locks in the region code) is "region zero". DVDs coded region zero play anywhere - it is a wild card (Type O, Daddy-o!). No one last night could answer the captioned question - would then the DVD reader/burner lock in as a region zero device and be able to play DVDs of any region on a permanent basis? And burn region zero DVDs? Does anyone know? Has anyone tried this? (A false move might render your new DVD device incapable of doing the right thing or anything, perhaps - so I wouldn't try without wiser counsel). Dave Ecklein _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
