In order to control distribution of movies and prevent piracy, many most DVDs are region protected to ensure that they cannot be played outside of their region of issue. In short, this means you can't play American DVDs on an Australian player and vice versa. To further complicate the matter, PC and notebook DVD drives are locked to the least region set with DVD drives correspondingly locked after five changes of region code by the user.

Teac has announced new LCD TVs with integrated digital tuners, two with integrated DVD and media file players, and a new iPod docking station.

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Another big name brand PC gets a cutting-edge, all-format, high-def optical drive capable of playing Blu-ray and HD DVD.

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Toshiba has now introduced a laptop with a HD-DVD drive. And gave us details on HD-DVD.

Although similar products have been available (with much controversy) in the US for a few years, the Samsung DVD-H40A is the first Personal Video Recorder (PVR) to reach our sunny shores.

Leigh Dyer lets rip on digital TV, video conversion tools, aspect ratios and video formats.

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Play your video, photo and music files on your TV from a networked PC. We put five network players to the test

Blu-ray takes another tentative step towards the mass market, but is now the time to buy?

Blu-ray takes another tentative step towards the mass market, but is now the time to buy?

The Hi-Grade Xperian can simply be described as a bundle of essential technology ingeniously put together in one desirable package.

How many acronyms can a monitor have before it chokes on its own resolution? We have all come to expect CRTs, LCDs, TFTs and God knows what else but now Samsung has come up with a monitor with so many acronyms it will leave you gasping.

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