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A question concerning 360 HD-DVD drive region encoding

Squirminator2kSquirminator2k they/themNorth Hollywood, CARegistered User regular
edited December 2007 in Moe's Stupid Technology Tavern
I'm curious: is the Region Encoding for the HD-DVD drive encoded in the drive itself, or is that part of the console? Could you, for example, connect a HD-DVD drive purchased in the US to a UK/EUR 360 and watch Region 1 HD-DVDs?

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    ZiggymonZiggymon Registered User regular
    edited December 2007
    As far as I remember HD-DVD's in particular have no region encoding lockout. The drives themselves would probably have the coding though for future use.

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    Squirminator2kSquirminator2k they/them North Hollywood, CARegistered User regular
    edited December 2007
    Ah yes, you appear to be correct there. Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia that anyone can edit, says "There is no Region Coding in the existing HD DVD specification, which means that titles from any country can be played in players in any other country." Whoo.

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