Will our Canadian DVD's work in the UK?
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We've finally decided to move back to the UK and so.... I'm going thru the house decluttering before we list our house for sale.
We have a huge DVD collection but I've heard thru the grapevine that they won't work in a British DVD player???
Is someone pulling my leg?? Afterall, isn't everything made in China?? lol
We have a huge DVD collection but I've heard thru the grapevine that they won't work in a British DVD player???
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We've finally decided to move back to the UK and so.... I'm going thru the house decluttering before we list our house for sale.
We have a huge DVD collection but I've heard thru the grapevine that they won't work in a British DVD player???
Is someone pulling my leg?? Afterall, isn't everything made in China?? lol
We have a huge DVD collection but I've heard thru the grapevine that they won't work in a British DVD player???
Is someone pulling my leg?? Afterall, isn't everything made in China?? lol
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It's the DVD machine you unlock not the actual DVD's. I don't know too much about it myself...just what I've read on here. You should be able to find out how to unlock it online...you will need the make and model no. As Try searching in The Lab for old threads...open a new thread if you can't find what you're looking for.
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Just look for a region-free DVD player on eBay, or go to Richer Sounds - they sell them. A reasonable one shouldn't cost you any more than £75 or so.
Here's a good one on the Richer Sounds website:
http://www.richersounds.com/product/...y-dvpns728-blk
Here's a good one on the Richer Sounds website:
http://www.richersounds.com/product/...y-dvpns728-blk
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Just look for a region-free DVD player on eBay, or go to Richer Sounds - they sell them. A reasonable one shouldn't cost you any more than £75 or so.
Here's a good one on the Richer Sounds website:
http://www.richersounds.com/product/...y-dvpns728-blk
Here's a good one on the Richer Sounds website:
http://www.richersounds.com/product/...y-dvpns728-blk
DVD's are segregated acround the world into different regions. (On the back of your DVD box, look for a miniature "world" symbol and it will have a number in it, ie, 1 or 2, etc) and that tells you what region your DVD's are for.
Either buy a region-free DVD player when you get back to the UK - or buy one that you can unlock.
See, dead technical me, too
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Another possible solution. You copy all your CD's onto your computer (say ITunes for example). Then you have them available for playing anywhere your computer or MP3 player type device is with you around the world. Also you can then have the CD's copied onto one neatly transportable external harddrive.
Then you could possibly sell the DVD's on Ebay or similar.
Then you could possibly sell the DVD's on Ebay or similar.
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if you play DVDs through your laptop you can set it up to play any region DVDs just go to the options
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Thanks for the info everyone - I was about to sell all our DVD's on Kijiji - NOT NOW!! They're all coming with us!! Cheers!
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We've finally decided to move back to the UK and so.... I'm going thru the house decluttering before we list our house for sale.
We have a huge DVD collection but I've heard thru the grapevine that they won't work in a British DVD player???
Is someone pulling my leg?? Afterall, isn't everything made in China?? lol
We have a huge DVD collection but I've heard thru the grapevine that they won't work in a British DVD player???
Is someone pulling my leg?? Afterall, isn't everything made in China?? lol
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Not with all laptops - some, especially newer ones, are set up where they're region-free out of the box, but you're only allowed to change the region code 5 times, then it locks to the last region used, so be careful with this.
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Asda sell dvd players at 12.97 pounds and are region free. I play my Canadian dvds on them no problem!
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