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Father of DVD Interviewed

Posted by michael on from the hard-disks-the-formidable-enemy dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes "Interview with Koji Hase. Talks about some of the interesting history behind the DVD format, copyright protection, and competing formats for audio."

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  1. Pet Peeve and question. by line-bundle · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The worst thing I find about DVD is region encoding. Why is it there? It seems they wanted to put something to replace the PAL/SECAM/NTSC barrier. But I feel it might not help at all because people will (are?) buying Region 1 DVD player (I am from region 6 or thereabouts and things only appear for our region after decades).

    And a question. Is the NTSC stuff encoded on the DVD or is it an artifact of the conversion from digital to analong of the image?