DVD Player Region Rules?
On Tuesday, February 4, 2020 at 5:49:30 AM UTC-5, Ron Hardin wrote:
I want to check how the 5 changes to region work. Is the only place this is stored in the DVD drive? In particular not in computer anywhere. So I could use an external USB DVD drive and set it to region 2 and my other DVD drives would still work for region 1? XP 24/7 since 2005. -- On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk. Ron, I did not think that DVD players had any region-specific information burned into their firmware. I thought that the handling of the region was done in software, which is why I use the open-source VLC Media Player which is region-blind by design. Also, the process of manufacturing and distributing DVD players would be more complicated if they were region-specific. Give VLC Media Player a try and let me know whether you succeed with it... Ben Myers |
DVD Player Region Rules?
Ben Myers wrote:
On Tuesday, February 4, 2020 at 5:49:30 AM UTC-5, Ron Hardin wrote: I want to check how the 5 changes to region work. Is the only place this is stored in the DVD drive? In particular not in computer anywhere. So I could use an external USB DVD drive and set it to region 2 and my other DVD drives would still work for region 1? XP 24/7 since 2005. -- On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk. Ron, I did not think that DVD players had any region-specific information burned into their firmware. I thought that the handling of the region was done in software, which is why I use the open-source VLC Media Player which is region-blind by design. Also, the process of manufacturing and distributing DVD players would be more complicated if they were region-specific. Give VLC Media Player a try and let me know whether you succeed with it... Ben Myers Most DVD players from stores are region locked to the area they are sold in. So a unit sold in Japan will not load a US sold DVD, Same if the DVD was sold in the UK, it will not play on a US player. Now the DVD drives in a computer are somewhat different but they are still only set up to allow 5 region changes and will lock on the last one set. Unlike the store bought DVD players the companies allow the drives to be reset because people move or buy hardware from companies outside their home countries and that allows the drives to be sold from anywhere. Want to see if that is the case with the one in your machines, Right click on the drive and look at the hardware properties, on any windows machine you will find the 5 region warning in there under DVD Region. If you have a DVD recording drive most machines won't allow another DVD player to operate either. I suppose for the price of them you might try it but not sure what will happen. What might work would be to remove the internal drive or switch it to a CDROM and use external DVD drives. That might work. -- Steve W. |
DVD Player Region Rules?
On 05/02/2020 00:50, Steve W. wrote:
Most DVD players from stores are region locked to the area they are sold in. So a unit sold in Japan will not load a US sold DVD, Same if the DVD was sold in the UK, it will not play on a US player. Now the DVD drives in a computer are somewhat different but they are still only set up to allow 5 region changes and will lock on the last one set. Unlike the store bought DVD players the companies allow the drives to be reset because people move or buy hardware from companies outside their home countries and that allows the drives to be sold from anywhere. Want to see if that is the case with the one in your machines, Right click on the drive and look at the hardware properties, on any windows machine you will find the 5 region warning in there under DVD Region. If you have a DVD recording drive most machines won't allow another DVD player to operate either. I suppose for the price of them you might try it but not sure what will happen. What might work would be to remove the internal drive or switch it to a CDROM and use external DVD drives. That might work. I'm not aware of a way to make a PC's CD/DVD drive region free, but there are hacks for standalone DVD machines. All my kit is Sony and I have an IR "dongle" that you point at the machine and it makes it region free with one button press. I believe there are similar devices for other brands. -- Ria in Aberdeen [Send address is invalid, use sipsoup at gmail dot com to reply direct] |
DVD Player Region Rules?
MissRiaElaine wrote:
On 05/02/2020 00:50, Steve W. wrote: Most DVD players from stores are region locked to the area they are sold in. So a unit sold in Japan will not load a US sold DVD, Same if the DVD was sold in the UK, it will not play on a US player. Now the DVD drives in a computer are somewhat different but they are still only set up to allow 5 region changes and will lock on the last one set. Unlike the store bought DVD players the companies allow the drives to be reset because people move or buy hardware from companies outside their home countries and that allows the drives to be sold from anywhere. Want to see if that is the case with the one in your machines, Right click on the drive and look at the hardware properties, on any windows machine you will find the 5 region warning in there under DVD Region. If you have a DVD recording drive most machines won't allow another DVD player to operate either. I suppose for the price of them you might try it but not sure what will happen. What might work would be to remove the internal drive or switch it to a CDROM and use external DVD drives. That might work. I'm not aware of a way to make a PC's CD/DVD drive region free, but there are hacks for standalone DVD machines. All my kit is Sony and I have an IR "dongle" that you point at the machine and it makes it region free with one button press. I believe there are similar devices for other brands. There are multiple ways of doing that with the stand alone players. There is even a web site showing some of the various hacks, where you press a sequence of buttons to access a buried menu to turn off region coding. For the PC drives it would likely be some coding that either prevents the region being stored in the firmware or a way that it would overwrite the region without triggering the counter. Never really thought about it much because there are not many things I would watch from other countries. There is even less from the U.S. with all the remakes of sequels to bad movies these days... -- Steve W. |
DVD Player Region Rules?
On 05/02/2020 17:00, Steve W. wrote:
There are multiple ways of doing that with the stand alone players. There is even a web site showing some of the various hacks, where you press a sequence of buttons to access a buried menu to turn off region coding. For the PC drives it would likely be some coding that either prevents the region being stored in the firmware or a way that it would overwrite the region without triggering the counter. Never really thought about it much because there are not many things I would watch from other countries. There is even less from the U.S. with all the remakes of sequels to bad movies these days... Ah, there we differ. I have a lot of DVD's from the US, notably the entire box set of a series I got into on Channel 5 a few years ago called 'La Femme Nikita." The DVD's were never sold outside the US, so I got a friend there to get them for me. -- Ria in Aberdeen [Send address is invalid, use sipsoup at gmail dot com to reply direct] |
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