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Emigrating DVD's?
RenHoek asks: "I found the love of my life on the internet, and I'm about to emigrate from the Netherlands to the USA. This leaves me with a big problem. My carefully collected DVD's are region 2 (Europe) and the USA is region 1. So except for buying a new DVD player (220 volts in Europe, 110 in the USA) does this also mean I have to sell my entire DVD collection here, and try to buy everything together in the US? It would seem I have a legal right to watch my legally bought DVDs, but region locking prohibits this, and circumventing region locking carries stiff penalties. Emailing the MPAA resulted in deafening silence. So what does the slashdot community advise? Should I follow the new American dream and start suing the moment I enter the US for the fact that the MPAA is either taking away my rights, or forcing me into a DMCA crime?" Thank god there are regionless DVD players! For those who don't know about them, which ones do you recommend and where are
the best places to buy them?
Funny, my college grammar book (The Modern Writer's Handbook), and the MLA handbook gives cases where it's proper to use the apostrophe for plurals.
From The Modern Writer's Handbook: Add an apostrophe and s to form the plural of words being named, letters of the alphabet, abbreviations, numerals, and symbols. The apostrophe _may_ be obmitted with capitals without periods: TVs, UFOs, PhDs.
So, according to this rule, DVD's, DVDs, and dvd's are all okay. "dvds" is not.
The MLA handbook says pretty much the same, except do not use them with numerals or abbreviations.
In this case, DVDs and dvds are correct, while dvd's and DVD's are incorrect.
I haven't learned that much from these books, but I do remember some of the obscure rules...
To be on-topic, wouldn't it be possible to use DeCSS to rip a DVD, transcode it from PAL to NTSC, and then burn it to a DVD-R?
It may not be cost effective, seeing that the last time I looked DVD-R's are about the same price as DVD movies.