[78-L] Playing European DVDs ^

[David Lennick]

1.  Go to store.

2.  Buy inexpensive DVD player which you have previously determined (either by 
reading the box, perusing the ad or checking online) is capable of playing PAL 
and NTSC and that there are hack instructions available for it.

3.  Go home.

Each of the last 4 machines I've bought has been able to deal with PAL and NTSC 
and regions. The last 2 were Philips.

dl

Mark L. Bardenwerper, Sr. wrote:
> Michael Biel wrote:
>> From: "Mark L. Bardenwerper, Sr." <citroenid19 at sbcglobal.net>
>>
>>   
>>> Keep in mind that most computer DVD player/burners will only
>>> allow you to do this a limited number of times. 
>>>     
>> But what we are discussing is making a stand-alone DVD player
>> permanently Region-Free, not changing a drive from one region to another
>> and then back again.  Once the entire machine is Region-Free it ignores
>> the region code and the drive will play any region disc and switch an
>> unlimited number of times.  You can play hundreds of different region
>> discs going back and forth between regions without any effect on the
>> machine.
>>   
> Yes. I see that.
>>   
>>> I am in the US. I have a few documentaries sent from England,
>>> recorded off BBC television on Citroens I had to do this with.
>>>     
>> If these were discs that had been recorded off the air on a home
>> stand-alone DVD recorder, most likely they were recorded Region-Free. 
>> I've never seen an amateur recording machine with an option to insert a
>> region code.  Only commercially produced discs have a region code, and
>> many of these made outside the U.S. are actually Region-Free.  Did you
>> try playing the discs on your normal DVD player?  If they were home
>> recorded, they probably would have played.
>>   
> Not only did they have region coding, but they were in PAL. I had to 
> convert that too, with fairly good results. I found a converter program 
> that I have long since lost. Ask me to do it again and I would probably 
> have to go through a week of fooling around like I did the first time!
>>   
>>> In Windows XP, go to Control Panel/system/hardware/device manager/DVD-CD 
>>> Rom Drives. Drop down to the particular drive you wish to change. right 
>>> click on Properties. Look for the DVD Region tab. change there.
>>>     
>> You probably used up your limited number of changes unnecessarily.
>>   
> I don't know. I won't be doing it again, I suppose.
>