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To: Don Green who wrote (35247)	11/26/1999 4:19:00 PM
From: Dave B	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Don, (I wonder how they handle the DVD coding system???) Do you mean the copy protection system or the regional coding system? My guess is it won't let you copy pre-recorded commercial DVDs. I'll bet they release it really as a VCR replacement with the additional features the article mentioned. You'll be able to record digital TV broadcasts (unless they're encrypted?) and your own movies. On the other hand, I just read that some guys in one of the Scandinavian countries broke the DVD copy-protection scheme (called CSS). Supposedly they wrote a program called DeCSS that removes it and then you can copy it on your PC. I did a search on the web and couldn't find any quick references to DeCSS (there were a lot that had nothing to do with DVD copy protection). Dave