What restrictions playing DVD movies?

Hi,
I am drooling over the September release of Starwars - the original trilogy but I found out that DVD's will be sold with formats for specific regions, e.g. region 1 for North America, region 2 for Europe etc. This apparently relates to playing DVD movies on a DVD player but what is the situation re: DVD rom/DVD movie players on a desktop computer? Should I pre-order these DVD's?
My thanks in advance!

nggalai wrote:
dp wrote:
ActionNews wrote:
It's very Easy :
pacman -S libdvdcss
pacman -S xine-ui
Then watch DVDs and don't worry about Regioncodes .
CU ActionNews
till today i didn't know what exactly is libdvdcss for - now i know :-)
=> Linux supports all region-codes using libdvdcss
But your DVD drive might still curl up and lock itself. My drive has an internal "4 RC switches max" setting; everytime I put another RC disc in my drive, the counter will, well, count down until it's on 0. Then, the drive will lock to that RC and will refuse to accept any other regions.
Well, it did that until I patched the firmware a while ago.
93,
-Sascha.rb
According to /proc/ide my dvdrom is a DDU1621 (Sony), I will also look for an upgrade to firmware but I think you need at least DOS to install it. I wonder can it be done in Linux alone?
Thanks!

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