WOW.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. DVD region code - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD_region_code

   However, region-free DVD players, which ignore region coding, are also commercially available, and many DVD players can be modified to be region-free, allowing playback of all discs. [3] DVDs may use one code, multiple codes (multi-region), or all codes (region free).

3. VLC media player - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VLC_media_player

   VLC media player. VLC media player (previously the VideoLAN Client and commonly known as simply VLC) is a free and open-source, portable, cross-platform media player software and streaming media server developed by the VideoLAN project. VLC is available for desktop operating systems and mobile platforms, such as Android, iOS and iPadOS.

4. Regional lockout - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_lockout

   Regional lockout. A regional lockout (or region coding) is a class of digital rights management preventing the use of a certain product or service, such as multimedia or a hardware device, outside a certain region or territory. A regional lockout may be enforced through physical means, through technological means such as detecting the user's IP ...

5. DVD-Video - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD-Video

   A normal DVD player can only play region-coded discs designated for the player's own particular region. However, a code-free or region-free DVD player is capable of playing DVDs from any of the six regions around the world. The CSS license prohibits manufacturing of DVD players that are not set to a single region by default. While the same ...

6. Comparison of high-definition optical disc formats - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_high...

   The Blu-ray specification and all currently available players support region coding. As of July 2008 about 66.7% of Blu-ray Disc titles are region-free and 33.3% use region codes. The HD DVD specification had no region coding, so a HD DVD from anywhere in the world will work in any player. The DVD Forum's steering committee discussed a request ...

7. DVD - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD

   The DVD (common abbreviation for digital video disc or digital versatile disc) [9] [10] is a digital optical disc data storage format. It was invented and developed in 1995 and first released on November 1, 1996, in Japan. The medium can store any kind of digital data and has been widely used to store video programs (watched using DVD players ...