Combo 2408SU, USB 2.0 External Drive
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quality. It is based on the proprietary MPEG-2 video decoding engine
that supports full resolution 720 x 480 video playback.
You can enjoy
the wide range of educational and entertaining CD/DVD titles with
sound and visual effect of theater quality.
DVD Region Coding
Region Playback Control Management
All DVD Video Playback systems have “Region Playback Control”
management (RPC) which is required by Hollywood movie industry and
defined by DVD Forum. This includes DVD-Video players and PC
systems with DVD-Video capability. You can only play DVD-Video
discs with the same region code as your DVD-Video Playback system.
As for DVD-ROM drives, one kind of the DVD-Video Playback system,
there are 2 types:
RPC Phase 1 (as RPC1)
: RPC1 drives do not have built-in hardware
support for region management. DVD-ROM drives of this kind don’t
play a part in controlling the playback region. It solely depends on the
decoder.
RPC Phase 2 (as RPC2)
: RPC2 drives maintain the region change
count information in hardware, and in general, the region of such drives
can be changed up to 5 times by the end users under some software
decoder (e.g. PowerDVD).
And referring to the region codes, there are 6 regions worldwide, and
normally, there is a region code mark on the package of DVD titles. :
Region 1: Canada, US
Region 2: Japan, Europe, South Africa, and Middle East (including
Egypt)
Region 3: Southeast Asia and East Asia (including Hong Kong)
