[ILUG] recommendation for a multi-region DVD player

[Darragh Bailey]

On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 08:46:02PM +0000, John P. Looney wrote:
>  Hey, I'm looking to replace my DVD player, and I may as well get a
> multi-region one. It's for hooking up to a popcorn-hour box, which has a
> pretty..conservative kernel (2.6.15), so something that doesn't need power
> other than from USB, and doesn't needs exotic drivers is a big plus.
> 
>  If I can get it in Dublin, without paying postage, double plus :)

If the box that is accessing the drive is running Linux, then if you are
playing DVD's with it, surely you will be using decss? I thought that
with decss, the region code was bypassed?

I'm fairly certain that the DVD rewritter in my machine is Region 2, but
I've never had any problems playing Region 1 DVD's in it. Also my
parents system is duel boot and Region 1 DVD's won't play under windows
but will under Linux.

All this means that I'm wondering why you need a multi-region DVD player 
for a computer running linux?

-- 
Darragh

"Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool."