[LINK] DVD chips 'to kill illegal copying'

[Marghanita da Cruz]

Adam Todd wrote:
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> DVD players as far as I'm aware pretty much universally read any 
> protocol format.  It's not the DVD drive itself that does the output, 
> but the accompanying decoder and processor board.  Again, I suspect that 
> in many cases it's cheaper to make a single NTSC decoder as 200 million 
> units would sell for that specific purpose whereas only a few might sell 
> for PAL so why worry about licence and code and etc.
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The PAL/NTSC is encoded in the MPEG2 format which is used to encode 
video on DVDs.
M
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