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`Ну вот, кажется, все стало ясно:
`Welcome another acronym, RCE
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`By now, you've probably at least heard about the latest hot-button issue currently being debated feverishly in the DVD community, Regional Code Enhancement (RCE). After an internal Warner document was leaked last week discussing the process, message boards (and our email) lit up over the issue. In brief, RCE would enhance current DVD discs, and override the ability of "Region Free" players to access discs not specifically authored to play in the same region as the player. In other words, if you tried to play a RCE-enhanced disc in a region free player, no dice. As with most issues that so greatly divide and inflame DVD enthusiasts, I want to jump right in and offer my opinion. However, due to some of the technical issues I'm still learning about, I will hold off until next week before throwing my two cents into the ring...
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`However, I would like to briefly say that we've checked out the first so-called RCE-enhanced disc, Columbia's The Patriot, and indeed it would not work in our multi-region Infinity player, which is a region-free device. Yet something many of you may not be aware of is, as far as our understanding goes, there have been prior Region 1 releases that have disabled region free playback. Try popping in a copy of, say, Universal's original Psycho disc in your region-free player...it won't work. Admittedly, the use of RCE-type processes has been limited (until The Patriot, at least) to early Universal titles, though there may be other studios who have implemented it as well (we've heard many Disney titles are also, but we haven't been able to find any), but it is not a new concept.
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`Another important point that enraged critics of RCE may not have realized is that the enhancement is still easily defeated by many region free players. We tried out both Psycho and The Patriot, and when we went into the "loophole" menu on the Infinity, if we set the region mode from "bypass" to Region 1, the discs now worked fine. Why? Remember that there is a difference between a region free player that is "hardwired" to bypass region coding, and a player that can adjusted to default to a specific region code. For example, on the Infinity, you can set the player to "bypass" mode, or as a "Region 1", "Region 2", Region 3", etc., player. Thus, by setting our Infinity to "Region 1" and not "bypass," we got the discs to work fine.
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`So, it seems apparent that there are a host of technical and ethical issues at play here, and we'll wait to comment further on them until some more research, so stay tuned next week. No big rush anyway, I'm sure, as I have a feeling this issue will still be around next week....
`(это из www.dvdfile.com)
`Так что бояться, похоже, нечего.
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О новой зонной защите... -- George Scerbakov -- 11.10.00@13:48 (Чит.: 140)