DVD Regions and how to beat it.

[MaCkCiTy]

Okay I bought a dvd off ebay and unbeknownst to me it was region 1 where I'm region 4. So no dvd players I've got will play it, but the dvd player on my PC can change to it, but it is irreversable... (apparently)

So does anyone know of a crack or hack or something to get around this?

[Leukeh]

Probably a pirated copy... but anyway, I use VCL (a program) but I'm not sure if there's a pc version, as I use a Mac

edit: this belongs in the media center

[MaCkCiTy]

theres a friggin media center... *goes looking*



edit: was it always called media center or am I just unobservant???

[Leukeh]

theres a friggin media center... *goes looking*



edit: was it always called media center or am I just unobservant???
always has been, always will be:D - apparently not, according to wish.

http://www.musicianforums.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=89 if you havnt found it yet

[Wish]

edit: was it always called media center or am I just unobservant???It used to to Video Games and Movies or something.

[Glass Onion]

What's the model name of the DVD player? I made mine from Region 2 to multi region after looking around on Google for one in less than 2 minutes.

Just remember to not get the hack of a pay site though, It will be out their for free.

[bradc1988]

Well it was called Video Games and Movies before, I think it was but can't remember.

Well I use VLC player on my PC which plays everything that doesn't work with my other programs. It can be downloaded here (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/). It's free and has no attatched spy/adware.

[MaCkCiTy]

Awesome, I'm dl'ing VLC now. Thanks people.

[MaCkCiTy]

bradc1988, thanks man it works...




I love you and want to bare your children...

[wonder_steve]

Could you buy a Dvd player from let's say USA (I live in Australia) and play Dvd's from that region, therefor getting around the need to wait months before the movies come out in region 4?

[bradc1988]

bradc1988, thanks man it works...




I love you and want to bare your children...

;)

That's fine, anything for a fellow MXican.

Could you buy a Dvd player from let's say USA (I live in Australia) and play Dvd's from that region, therefor getting around the need to wait months before the movies come out in region 4?

Yes you could but you'll need a transformer to change the voltage to 240V which can be easily done with a simple adapter I believe. I'm sure you could get a cheap DVD player off ebay or some how and get a transformer from Dick Smith or Harvery Norman.

[Glass Onion]

Could you buy a Dvd player from let's say USA (I live in Australia) and play Dvd's from that region, therefor getting around the need to wait months before the movies come out in region 4?


It'ld be alot easier and cheaper to find the region code crack for your player, or failing that buy a multi-region DVD player.

[Happy]

You can buy a product called DVD X for Playstation 2. It lets you play DVDs from any region. I'm not sure if it works on anything other than PS2 though but at £10 it's worth a try.

[wonder_steve]

thanks guys.