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| Thread ID: 92792 | 2008-08-23 04:53:00 | Changing Panasonic DVD player to multizone? | Billy T (70) | PC World Chat |
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| 699624 | 2008-08-27 08:14:00 | As I understand it Ciccy, from the point of view of home entertainment machines, not stand-alone units for computers, retailers authorised to sell a major brand name such as Sony or Panasonic are legally prohibited from selling multizone versions. Parallel importers have no such restrictions up front, but can still suffer legal action or other sanctions if they do, and get caught. AFAIK the DVD player manufacturers are obliged to play along with the film industry, who are stuck in the past, if they want the code to descramble. They still think in terms of staggered releases so that they could recycle film prints to the minor markets after they'd had a good scratching somewhere else. The NZ Government have made it clear that region coding hasn't got anything to do with Copyright so I'm not sure what Legal action could be involved. It seems daft that Panasonic have an arrangement with NEXT to make their players multizone under warranty only if the customer requests. "The remote arrived, turned on DVD player, pointed remote at it, held down button A and pressed 1. Put in US zoned DVD, pressed play, watched." Hope that didn't just change the player to Zone 1 as Mrs T is just as likely to change her mind and want to play something else. |
PaulD (232) | ||
| 699625 | 2008-08-27 10:05:00 | "The remote arrived, turned on DVD player, pointed remote at it, held down button A and pressed 1 . Put in US zoned DVD, pressed play, watched . " Hope that didn't just change the player to Zone 1 as Mrs T is just as likely to change her mind and want to play something else . You think I'm silly Paul? I've been 43 years a technician but work mainly in industrial electronics now, not consumer . However, I know to check that I have a multizone result, not just a zone change, and my instinct for self-preservation also ensures that I don't annoy Mrs T unnecessarily . She's a powerful woman when she gets riled! :eek: Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 699626 | 2008-08-27 10:10:00 | When it comes to them what MBO, there is no "changing of the mind". Just that the management reserves the right to update the rules without notice. Ignorance of the rules is not an excuse, transgressors may be scorched. | R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 699627 | 2008-08-27 11:37:00 | You think I'm silly Paul? I've been 43 years a technician but work mainly in industrial electronics now, not consumer . However, I know to check that I have a multizone result, not just a zone change, and my instinct for self-preservation also ensures that I don't annoy Mrs T unnecessarily . She's a powerful woman when she gets riled! :eek: Cheers Billy 8-{) Not picking on you Billy but even technicians can do daft things :) Not knowing the operation of that service remote I was just checking in case the procedural use of "1" was significant . Usually multizone is Zone 0 . |
PaulD (232) | ||
| 699628 | 2008-08-28 09:39:00 | Not picking on you Billy but even technicians can do daft things :) My prior research indicated that region-change codes are not usually quite that obvious or logical . Pardon my jumpiness, but come live around Mrs T for fair while; oh, say, five or 10 minutes, and you too will become gun-shy . :eek: Cheers Billy 8-{) :D |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 699629 | 2008-08-28 20:50:00 | We should have a day in Auck,viewing a hen pecking demo. | Cicero (40) | ||
| 699630 | 2008-08-29 05:09:00 | We should have a day in Auck,viewing a hen pecking demo. Nah......All swell here Ciccy, my software is undamaged and my firmware is working as well as ever. Knowing when to please is just as, if not more important than knowing how to please. Take from that what you will. Mrs T and I are off out for dinner tonight. I could be on a promise. Cheers Billy 8-{) :o |
Billy T (70) | ||
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