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Re:We all took the DVD boom era for granted by gwbas1c on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @10:14AM (#42388546)
Which had "stupid geographical restrictions"
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Re:We all took the DVD boom era for granted by KETHERCORTEX on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @12:00PM (#42389885)
Once you have a player and a disk, you are able to move with them wherever you want.
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Re:We all took the DVD boom era for granted by gwbas1c on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @03:39PM (#42392692)
You still had to deal with PAL <-> NTSC issues.
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Re:We all took the DVD boom era for granted by shiroiushi on Thursday December 12, 2024 @03:23AM (#42397319)
No problem, you just bring your TV with you when you travel. /s
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Re:We all took the DVD boom era for granted by astrange on Thursday December 12, 2024 @01:24PM (#42401790)
Computers aren't much better here. You can't display either a PAL or NTSC movie properly on a 60fps display because neither 24 or 50 divide into that.
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Re:We all took the DVD boom era for granted by layer8 on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @01:13PM (#42390832)
Multi-region players were always available. Many players could also be made region-free by a “secret” remote control button sequence.
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