Blue Cat

bought a new dvd recorder thingy cos the old one broke down, but we are going to get it repaired and use it in the bedroom. I consequently ordered 140 quids worth of DVD's from Amazon to watch over Christmas with our friend Andy who is coming up from New Zealand on holiday. The new machine doesn't play any of the DVD's :curse::curse::curse: is there any way round this? I am absolutely furious with him :curse: and as for taking it back, he has thrown the box away

Spugsy

it must be something to do with the regions, I'm sure it can be sorted.

lionheart

Some expensive DVD machines seem to have an inbuilt safety system which prevents "dodgy" DVDs from playing. We have three cheap machines in our villa and they play most of our DVDs but my boss has a posh machine which refuses to play them. If you bought the DVDs on-line, they may be copies. As a new DVD machine only costs AED100 at most of the hypermarkets, why not take one of your DVDs there to test one of the cheapo machines out before buying? At Hyperpanda they were selling one machine for AED69 on Saturday...would you believe it?

admon

we bought a dvd player a few months ago that for some reason only played USA region dvd's.
Plug Ins accepted it back for a full credit minus the box.

typical

Search on Google with the model number of the recorder and "unlock code"...

Blue Cat

they are defintaly not copies, I bought them on Amazon. Believe it or not it is playing fakes but not real ones. Apparently if I ring Phillips they can give me a code to make it all region. Let's see I am not good on the telephone

Inselaffen

see if u can find it on this list

http://www.videohelp.com/dvdhacks

Blue Cat

thanks, will get Atilla to check it

Blue Cat

update, husband has been to the shop and they have given him instructions on how to change it, watch this space ....

Roadking

Been watching for 9 minutes and nothing has happened. Gonna check other threads now cos I'm bored.

Blue Cat

Ok I totally understand ....

Spugsy

yup I'm sure you fire in some code and it'll start working,

poor husband of yours, being shouted at for throwing the box away, as if any man would keep instructions, the box or a receipt...

Blue Cat

I haven't spoken to him for two days over this, I rang him and told him that you can get the codes from the shop, he must have got in the car and gone straight there because he rang me back in less than half an hour!

Charismatic

It's only a bloody DVD player, if he spend a few grand on coke, strippers and working girl then that response would be more justified . Give the boy a "get out of jail free" card to make the score even.

Eva

poor pun there Chari