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>From: "Michael Bush" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: "Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum"    <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: RE: #5428.2 Popular DVD movies are only French and Spanish (!)
>Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 22:59:35 -0700
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Cindy Tracy wrote:
> I assumed that since DVDs are coded for different
> regions it has to do with the video conversion to DVD
format.
I am not exactly sure what you mean, whether you are talking
about technical or marketing issues.  It seems you are
referring to the rights to distribute video in various
regions.  A distributor who buys rights for one region wants
to know that people will not be able to buy the materials
they have licensed in other regions, so to protect them, the
seller of rights insists that the region code be set
appropriately.

In other words, the regionalization issue is a marketing
decision, not a technical one

Cheers,

Mike
Michael Bush
Associate Professor of French and
Instructional Psychology and Technology
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http://moliere.byu.edu/digital/