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--- Forwarded Message from Ron Skulas <[log in to unmask]> ---

>Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 14:32:24 -0400
>Subject: Re: #7278 New computers with DVD drives and regions
>From: Ron Skulas <[log in to unmask]>
>To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum    <[log in to unmask]>
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Sure thing.  I use an all-iMac lab running OS 10.2.6, and lock out the 
systems Administrative Functions from the students'.  Piece of cake.

I also run a Zone-Free DVD/LCD projector set up in our Multimedia 
Classroom, so that they get all the Zone 1 DVDs played on the iMacs, 
and all the others on the ZF DVD player.

Ron Skulas

Language Learning Center Coordinator
Bowling Green State University

On Monday, Oct 6, 2003, at 14:23 US/Eastern, LLTI-Editor wrote:

> --- Forwarded Message from Laura Atkinson <[log in to unmask]> ---
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>> Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2003 11:24:39 -0400
>> From: Laura Atkinson <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]>
>> Subject: New computers with DVD drives and regions
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>
> Hi all,
>
> When you get new computers in that have DVD drives, do any of you have 
> a
> process for locking the firmware down to a specific region? My
> understanding is that most drives let you change regions 5 times before
> they lock, and it would probably not be good if any of the machines got
> locked into something other than region 1. Or, maybe it would be good 
> to
> select certain machines to be region 1, region 2, and so on. In any 
> event,
> I want to choose what happens with each one rather than leaving it to
> chance.
>
> Any of you have well-thought-out policies about this?
>
> Thanks!
>
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> Laura Atkinson
> Technical Coordinator for Foreign Language Computing
> Duke University
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>
Dr. Ron Skulas
(419) 372-8146
BGSU

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