Hi All, How do you handle situations when a professor wants a foreign language film that is only available in a non-US region format? Do you purchase the item and warn the professor of how the item will likely not play on standard players, but that it would be possible to play on a computer after switching regions? Would it be illegal to make one copy of the film that is region-free or region 1 for ease of student use and destroy or lock away the original? If you have done this, how did you do it?
You can reply off list if you like to achad...@highpoint.edu Thank you for any insight you may have. Amy Chadwell -------------------------------------------------------- Amy and all, We do not make copies or recommend they change the region on their computer. Rather, we recommend they download the free VLC Media Player. It will play most anything. http://www.videolan.org/ http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ Michael ------------------------------------------------ Michael Kankiewicz Manager, Silverman Multimedia Center 320D Capen Hall University at Buffalo Buffalo, NY 14260 P - (716) 645-1329 F - (716) 645-3710 e - micha...@buffalo.edu VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors.
