Ever heard about DVD Region Code?
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| jclabaugh Member  119 Posts 9/12 |  Posted - Oct 6 2012 : 10:34AMIbought some DVDs from overseas and they wont play on my dvd player? Topic Moved by - Joey Starr on Oct 6 2012 [Link] |
| Joey Starr Senior Member Still wanking after all these years. 8082 Posts 10/00 | Posted - Oct 6 2012 : 12:03PM |
| Joey Starr Senior Member Still wanking after all these years. 8082 Posts 10/00 | Posted - Oct 6 2012 : 12:04PM [Link] |
| Joey Starr Senior Member Still wanking after all these years. 8082 Posts 10/00 | Posted - Oct 6 2012 : 12:05PM [Link] |
| jclabaugh Member 119 Posts 9/12 | Posted - Oct 6 2012 : 1:16PM [Link] |
| jclabaugh Member 119 Posts 9/12 | Posted - Oct 6 2012 : 1:17PM [Link] |
Hardware  All-Star Member Your other left 14595 Posts 3/02 | Posted - Oct 6 2012 : 8:42PM [typo] Edited by - hardware on 10/6/2012 8:42:42 PM [Link] |
| Bill All-Star Member 5334 Posts 6/00 | Posted - Oct 7 2012 : 1:25PM Some DVD players will convert PAL to NTSC and others don't. What brand/model DVD player do you have? [Link] |
| jayo All-Star Member 2117 Posts 7/04 | Posted - Oct 7 2012 : 2:58PM You really need to determine how much effort you want to put into it, because none of the options are simple. The easiest thing you can do is buy a DVD player that plays all regions (they are available), and hopefully that will do it. I keep meaning to do this myself because I want some British tv shows that are too obscure to rate a Region 1 release. The other is, as Hardware says, is try to trick the computer's DVD player to run it anyway. That can be a serious PITA. I looked it up once and it's more work than I'm willing to do. Bill: would you elaborate on the NTSC/PAL encoding vs. region encoding? I always thought that DVDs were encoded in a way that it was the DVD player's job to make it work with your television (or monitor)--i.e. that if I bought a Region 2 DVD but had a region 2 player that works with my TV, it'll play... [Link] |
| ninja1 Senior Member 2939 Posts 1/08 | Posted - Oct 7 2012 : 3:06PM Edited by - ninja1 on 10/7/2012 3:07:26 PM [Link] |
| Bill All-Star Member 5334 Posts 6/00 | Posted - Oct 7 2012 : 3:39PM [Link] |
| Hardware All-Star Member Your other left 14595 Posts 3/02 | Posted - Oct 7 2012 : 3:47PM Regional coding is a security device dreamed up because the major motion picture studios stagger the release dates of their movies. Thus, regional coding is intended to prevent pirates from getting in before the official release in the theaters. As far as computers go, I haven't messed with this in ages, but I believe if you install the DVD player in your computer yourself then you have the option to leave the code on 'zero', which will allow it to play all regions. However, once you change it to any other number you're stuck with that region. At least, that's what happens in Windows. Other operating systems may handle it differently. [Link] |
| Bill All-Star Member 5334 Posts 6/00 | Posted - Oct 7 2012 : 4:03PM [Link] |
| Hardware All-Star Member Your other left 14595 Posts 3/02 | Posted - Oct 7 2012 : 4:30PM [Link] |
| Bill All-Star Member 5334 Posts 6/00 | Posted - Oct 7 2012 : 6:20PM Rather than do that, I watch those discs using VLC. BTW - It is possible that jclabaugh has flashed his drive with region-free firmware. But, since, prior to this thread, he didn't know what regions are, I assumed that there was no reason why he would have done so (which is why I'm convinced that it's a PAL/NTSC issue, not a region one). Edited by - Bill on 10/7/2012 6:26:48 PM [Link] |
| Hardware All-Star Member Your other left 14595 Posts 3/02 | Posted - Oct 7 2012 : 9:37PM [Link] |
| ninja1 Senior Member 2939 Posts 1/08 | Posted - Oct 7 2012 : 11:35PM [Link] |
| Bill All-Star Member 5334 Posts 6/00 | Posted - Oct 8 2012 : 8:20PM MediaInfo show you PAL vs. NTSC (you need to open the VIDEO_TS.BUP file in the VIDEO_TS directory of the DVD. [Link] |
| jclabaugh Member 119 Posts 9/12 | Posted - Oct 9 2012 : 6:31PM [Link] |
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