[78-L] DVD question--was: Re: A word of warning concerning playback

[Jeff Sultanof]

May I ask what movie? I'm always intrigued when I hear about different
versions of films.

Jeff Sultanof

On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 2:23 AM, Michael Biel <mbiel at mbiel.com> wrote:

> But as I predicted, Blu-Ray players are starting to become fairly
> inexpensive at the low end, way under $100, and soon might be under
> $50.  They will play regular DVDs and CD, but might not play VCDs and
> other formats like that.  I lucked into an LG combo HD-DVD/Blu Ray
> machine which turns out to be hackable for multi-region.  Again my
> suggestion is to always try to ckeck on the web beforehand if the model
> is region-code hackable.  But we are finding that a lot of European
> Blu-Rays are region free, including one movie we got three months ago
> which is not being released in the US till next week and is a completely
> different edit from the British original.  The coding was designed for
> exactly that reason!
>
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com  .
>
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