[KLUG Hardware] DVD Regions

[Mike Williams]

>From: Adam Williams <awilliam@whitemice.org>
>To: hardware@kalamazoolinux.org
>Date: 07 Apr 2002 17:40:35 -0400
>Subject: [KLUG Hardware] DVD and Regions
>Reply-To: hardware@kalamazoolinux.org
>
>I understand the whole DVD and regional thing.  I have a US (aka
>region
>1) DVD player.  My question is if I buy a PC DVD player (or a laptop
>with a DVD player) is the regional encoding hardware or software?
>Can I
>use something like DeCSS to dodge the *&*$@$@ regional restrictions?

Well, I can't speak for Linux DVD since I've never messed with it, but on 
most Windoze implementations you choose your region when you install the 
software.  Based on that, it should be possible (at least in theory) to 
change regions on the fly.