DVD help please

[Ware Bears]

My DVD players will only play Region 2 DVDs. I want to buy a DVD that is only available in Region 1 format. Would I be able to play this on my PC?

 

[mikki.young]

Rather depends if you have played region 2 DVDs a few times already on your PC. or if you have hacking software to make the PC multi region. Or if you have 2 DVD players and use one for each type of film. Lots of ifs and buts....

 

[BRobson]

PM sent

 

[Goofyish]

Usually PC DVD drives allow you to change the region code about 5 times before locking on the last region played

You can hack the drives firmware to make them multiregion - not sure how to do it though.

 

[Ware Bears]

Usually PC DVD drives allow you to change the region code about 5 times before locking on the last region played

Thanks for your help everyone.

 

[Tron[ADS]]

My DVD players will only play Region 2 DVDs. I want to buy a DVD that is only available in Region 1 format. Would I be able to play this on my PC?

Id be very surprised if you cant press a few buttons on your remote control to make at least one of your players multi-region.

If you post your players make and model on here, Ill see if I can find the hack for you.

Although if its $ony, you may be out of luck....from what I remember, they were always swines.

 

[Ware Bears]

Sent you a PM.

 

[mikki.young]

Id be very surprised if you cant press a few buttons on your remote control to make at least one of your players multi-region.

If you post your players make and model on here, Ill see if I can find the hack for you.

Although if its $ony, you may be out of luck....from what I remember, they were always swines.

Strangely enough we bought our DVD player from a Sony Centre and there were quite willing to sell you one ready chipped to play multi region for an extra tenner.

 

[Tron[ADS]]

Yeah, its a long time since I hacked a $ony, but from memory, you use a custom remote (or a PDA using a macro in OmniRemote) that fires a set of IR instructions to it to make it multi region. A tenner is a fair price, Id have charged about the same.

 

[Tron[ADS]]

Usually PC DVD drives allow you to change the region code about 5 times before locking on the last region played

You can hack the drives firmware to make them multiregion - not sure how to do it though.

www.rpc1.org for how to make your pc drive multi-region.

You shouldnt really need to do it though, DVD Decryptor can remove the region coding on any disk using brute-force method if it was a different region to what the drive was set to.

 

[And]

dvdcodes.net

Not sure if you've sorted your problem already, but I used this site to unlock my DVD Player...pretty easy!