Comments on: Steve Jobs has an attack of common sense

By: zilch

zilch — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 14:23:08 +0000

Too late for us to worry about DVD codes- since we live in Austria, but often buy DVD’s in the States, we’ve got about 50/50 DVD’s from regions 1 and 2.

By: webs05

webs05 — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 13:52:50 +0000

Yes you could play the DVD in Windows, but remember. If you buy the DVD in America, do to region codes, it will only play on DVDs manufactured for the US. If you buy a DVD player manufactured for Japan, it will only play DVDs made for Japan.

So be careful about buying DVDs on Ebay and buying computers from Ebay. That DVD region BS might get in the way.

I am sure there are other get-arounds but I haven’t seen to many of them. But DVD shrink is by far the easiest to use and works about 9 times out of 10.

By: zilch

zilch — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 07:30:57 +0000

Thanks for the tip, webs. I don’t have the laptop yet, but I read about the problem. Of course, with a new Intel Mac you could just play the DVD in Windows, no? I believe there are lots of getarounds for PCs.

By: christopher

christopher — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 05:42:16 +0000

because of DRM, I have never even considered downloading from itunes or any other online music file retailer. legally downloaded mp3s are an inferior product.

By: webs05

webs05 — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 14:36:57 +0000

Unfortunately Zilch, the region fussiness is not up to him, but it actually is up to the manufacturers of DVD players and DVDs. But if you want to get around it, look for a program called DVD shrink. You might have to find it on a P2P downloading program.

DVD shrink can sometimes break the region codes of DVDs.

As for Steve Jobs. It’s about damn time!!!!

By: zilch

zilch — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 09:43:50 +0000

Now all Jobs has to do is remove the regional fussiness of the DVD players in his laptops, add a couple buttons to his mouses, and he’ll be on a run.