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To buy, or not to buy . . .
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Number_6
beer, I want beer
No CDs.
I decided to buy this instead:
http://www.oppodigital.com/proddetail.asp?prod=OPDV971H
Several studios have just launched a suit against Samsung for making their players "hackable" with codes that turn off copy protection and allow for region free play. This is in preparation for the big war to come when the manufacturers start rolling out the HD-DVD and Blu-Ray players.
If they're successful, the backdoors installed by the engineers will be a thing of the past. Laughably, they are also insisting that all private owners give up their Samsung units.
I've been wanting a player that will play Region 2 PAL DVDs for some time, and it looks like that time is now. I don't care so much about defeating copy protection--if I'm going to buy a DVD, I'm going to buy it with the packagaing and all. But I do care about playing Region 2 DVDs.
I decided to buy this instead:
http://www.oppodigital.com/proddetail.asp?prod=OPDV971H
Several studios have just launched a suit against Samsung for making their players "hackable" with codes that turn off copy protection and allow for region free play. This is in preparation for the big war to come when the manufacturers start rolling out the HD-DVD and Blu-Ray players.
If they're successful, the backdoors installed by the engineers will be a thing of the past. Laughably, they are also insisting that all private owners give up their Samsung units.
I've been wanting a player that will play Region 2 PAL DVDs for some time, and it looks like that time is now. I don't care so much about defeating copy protection--if I'm going to buy a DVD, I'm going to buy it with the packagaing and all. But I do care about playing Region 2 DVDs.
Number_6
beer, I want beer
Quite a few do. But this one has upscaling and an onboard PAL to NTSC converter. I've been looking into this for awhile, trying to find the best region-free player for the money.
My DVD player is old, and there are no hacks for it. Plus it doesn't have an onboard converter, so I'd have to spend $150 just for that.
The problem, as it's being presented in the videophile world, is that if the studios win this war, then all hackable players will be taken off the market and replaced with players that cannot be hacked. If that happens, you know that the hackable players will be bought up en masse and then offered on eBay for a small fortune.
This was something we were going to do at some point this year, anyway, also because we want a DVD/CD player that plays all of the formats that have been developed in the years since our current player was made. Hearing about this suit just made this a bigger priority than it had been previously.
My DVD player is old, and there are no hacks for it. Plus it doesn't have an onboard converter, so I'd have to spend $150 just for that.
The problem, as it's being presented in the videophile world, is that if the studios win this war, then all hackable players will be taken off the market and replaced with players that cannot be hacked. If that happens, you know that the hackable players will be bought up en masse and then offered on eBay for a small fortune.
This was something we were going to do at some point this year, anyway, also because we want a DVD/CD player that plays all of the formats that have been developed in the years since our current player was made. Hearing about this suit just made this a bigger priority than it had been previously.