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PlayStation2 modification irritates Sony
News Techtronics, based in Lincolnshire, specialises in converting DVD players to play disks from all regions, a technique known as 'chipping'. We're confident that we'd be able to chip the DVD side of the PlayStation2, and we're looking into the legal...
[September 7, 2000, 11:57]
US DVD importers ruled illegal
Talkback Lets face it DVD regions make no sence Pal/Ntsc tv's and players cost little, and even if you increase the security on the discs to prevent multi region players the cost of a foriegn player to the interested person is negligable.
[April 18, 2004, 20:09]
Tesco vs Hollywood in DVD battle
News At present, the world is divided into six DVD regions. The company has written a letter to Warner Home Video president, Warren Lieberfarb, claiming that regional zoning is a barrier to trade and is keeping UK DVD prices artificially high.
[February 21, 2000, 14:59]
Maptech NOAA BSB Marine Charts
Downloads Maptech Regions 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20, 30, 32, 34, 36, 40, 81, 82, 83 & 84 NOAA BSB Charts on DVD.
[November 14, 2005, 7:00]
Games on DVD - 99 will be a good Christmas
News The global DVD film market is split into regions: North America, Europe and the rest of the world. By Christmas high-street retailers' shelves should be bulging with DVD-blessed PCs ready to take on the new games and film titles promised for the...
[May 17, 1999, 10:50]
First (legal) software DVD player for Linux
News The encryption, designed to prevent players playing DVDs from different regions, had the side effect of preventing DVDs from being played on Linux systems. The first legal software DVD player/decoder for the Linux operating system is set to be...
[April 3, 2000, 11:19]
MacBSB NOAA Charts
Downloads Two DVDs contain the MapTech NOAA USA charts in BSB format for these regions:Region 2 Block Island, RI to the Canadian BorderRegion 3 New York to Nantucket and to Cape May, NJRegion 4 Chesapeake and Delaware BaysRegion 6Norfolk, VA to Florida.
[November 25, 2008, 14:13]
Sony wins landmark case against mod chips
News Users could install them in their PS2 to play imported games from other regions as well as pirated copies. Like many console and DVD-drive makers, Sony uses regional encoding that prevents European hardware, based on the PAL standard, from playing...
[July 22, 2004, 14:10]
Sony mod-chip lawsuit leaves DVDs in the clear
News Regioning refers to the practice of encrypting media -- usually DVDs -- according to regions of the world so that they only work with players encoded to the same region. A UK High Court ruling in Sony's favour against a company that made mod-chips...
[January 25, 2002, 17:29]
Sony cracks down on PlayStation2 chipping
News Hollywood divided the world into six regions: Region 1 is the US and Canada; Region 2 is Europe and Japan; Region 3 is the Orient; Region 4 is Australia and New Zealand; Region 5 is Asia and Africa; and all other areas fall into Region 6.
[December 13, 2001, 15:18]
Sony's mod chip battle heats up
News Sony said that ACCC's data on game availability and prices across international TV regions is false and applies to non-PlayStation games. SCE also points out that the ACCC has accused Sony of creating artificial trade barriers by preventing...
[February 14, 2002, 10:12]
Production vs Distribution
Talkback You'd have to buy a new version when you changed regions. Thank the Master Programmer in the Sky that software is NOT distributed like DVD movies or music cuts! Unfortunately the production costs are quantified by accountants using the models...
[December 1, 2008, 7:36]
Feds hijack illicit sites
News Like other mod chips, the Enigmah defeats security systems in the Xbox, allowing owners to play legally and illegally copied games, run unauthorised software and play games intended for other geographic regions.
[February 27, 2003, 11:18]
'Mod' squad hacks away at Xbox
News With a mod chip soldered into the box, owners can play bootleg copies of games burned onto CD or DVD discs, or games designed for other geographic regions that normally would be blocked by the console's regional encoding system.
[June 19, 2002, 8:38]
Australian body calls for mod-chip legalisation
News Mod chips commonly allow consumers to circumvent features of their consoles and DVD players that block access to discs printed to run on substantially identical machines built for other regions. The Australian Consumers Association on Monday...
[June 21, 2004, 10:00]
SCO back-pedals on Linux invoice delivery
News The rationale was that this pricing had not been rolled out in certain regions of the world, where we wanted to offer this introductory pricing in a timely manner," he said. The licenses currently cost $699 (£419) for a single-processor Linux...
[October 16, 2003, 10:20]
US defence department reaches Wi-Fi pact
News The Department of Defense was worried that the cumulative effect of Wi-Fi products could interfere with the military's use of radar because the regions of the spectrum in which Wi-Fi and radar operate overlap somewhat.
[February 3, 2003, 8:57]
Simplicity the key for tech branding
News Two to three years ago, we were running on one cylinder — Europe — and now we are running on all four cylinders and all regions are contributing positively to the results. HD DVD debate. Why is the fight between the HD-DVD and Blu-ray camps so...
[February 2, 2006, 15:55]
Shutters come down on free photos for MSN
News Meanwhile, some MSN Photo users aren't taking so kindly to the proposed changes, especially those in regions where MSN 8 dial-up services is not offered. For the latest on everything from DVD standards and MP3s to your rights online, see the...
[May 7, 2003, 8:26]
India ramps up semiconductor production
News Speaking to ZDNet Asia on the sidelines of Gartner's Annual Semiconductor Roadshow on Tuesday, Philip Koh, Gartner's research vice president of semiconductor for Asia-Pacific, said that as production activities will not ramp up in India in the...
[June 14, 2007, 12:10]
