British Expats - DVD regional codes?

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British Expats (https://britishexpats.com/forum/)

- Canada (https://britishexpats.com/forum/canada-56/)

- - DVD regional codes? (https://britishexpats.com/forum/canada-56/dvd-regional-codes-470529/)

MarkG

Aug 21st 2007 4:16 pm

Re: DVD regional codes?

Computers don't care about PAL or NTSC when you're just viewing on the monitor. They do care about regions, but there is some software you can buy which will convince Windows that your DVD drive is region-free even when it's not; I still have an older DVD drive which is region-free, so I don't have to care about that, but do have to run other software to change region on the player since that is also limited to five changes.

LHK	Aug 22nd 2007 2:29 am

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Thanks, MarkG!

LHK	Nov 7th 2007 2:46 am

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Just wanted to update this one. I've got my Region 2 DVDs (Yes Minister & Yes Prime Minister) the day before yesterday :rofl: and they worked in my notebook like a charm!

An odd note, the DVD box says it's good for Regions 2+4 (which includes Brazil). Anyway, my notebook was bought in the US, but thanks to a software (DVD Region+CSS Free), it didn't pay attention to the region at all.

Thanks to all who helped me! :thumbsup:

Most interesting thing is the route the DVD took up to get here: I sent it to a US PO Box of a friend who lives in Canada. He picked it up and took it to San Francisco, where another friend picked it up and brought it to me - together with some books that yet another friend brought from the UK to SF!

bazzz

Nov 7th 2007 3:00 am

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VLC is an excellent piece of software:

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

and it should get round your problems. The other issue you may have is that the actual firmware of your DVD drive might be region locked. If this does seem to be a problem, you might want to search for region-free firmware for your particular drive.

Here's a guide on that:

http://www.pcreview.co.uk/articles/H...e_region_free/

EDIT: Hmm, I seem to have missed the previous posts somehow. I'm an idiot.

dewdrop

Nov 7th 2007 7:18 am

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Originally Posted by The Welshman (Post 5134142)

Hi
Wal-Mart $30 Diamond Vision. Plays all regions. At that price, what can you say!

I bought this same DVD player Diamond Vision, it kinda worked,skipped alot...hard to watch....anyway it worked for about a 2/3mths. so i bought more UK kid dvds. and now it doesn't play them at all...and now its been too long to return the stupid thing. so there is sits!!!!:frown:...let's hope it will work the other way around, anyone go back and try cnd or british dvd's...

ARH	Nov 7th 2007 11:36 am

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Originally Posted by Earl J (Post 5130891)

I am trying to play DVD's from the UK on my region 1 DVD player..have read the regional code hacks on this site and tried the one for a Sony solution but it didn't work, ....... so , I just bought a cheap MAX DVP-6100 player that is supposed to work for all regions and that won't play them either ...any suggestions would be appreciated

Buy a new DVD that will allow a multi-region hack. I got a Philips DVP-5982 Up-Converting HDMI player and it works great with my UK DVD's, about $70.

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