[LMB] AKICTOT:L Dvd players (was If civilization fell)

[Mark Allums]

Azalais Aranxta wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Feb 2008, Katrina Knight wrote:
>> Making it region-free required pushing some buttons on the
>> remote control with the drawer open.  I'm not sure whether it
>> qualifies as inexpensive though. I think it cost me about $60.
>> It has thus far done fine with everything I've thrown at it,
>> including PAL disks, except rewritable DVDs written with a
>> packet writer.
> 
> What programmes would qualify as packet writers?

There are a few.  InCD (Nero) is one.  Packet-writers are those programs 
that let you write to the CD as if it were any other kind of disk, such 
as a floppy.  This can be handy, or even necessary for some 
applications, but the receiving device needs to be running software that 
  knows about the packet-writing formatted disk.*  Most DVD players don't.

--Mark Allums

* Dis'k' for floppies, hard drives, and CDs.  Dis'c' for DVDs and Brits.