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February 25th, 2004 14:00

A "different "question about REGION Locked DVD drives

It really isn't a big deal to me if my machines (I5100 and D2400) lock themselves to Region 1.   But what I am wondering is once they are locked will they be able to play Region 0 discs?  (Region 0 = Multiregion for those who don't know).

The reason I ask is that my sister is going to England in a few months and I aksed her to pick up some Region 0 DVDs of my favourite Brit and Aussie soaps.

I didn't see any reference to Region 0 on the screen which refers to Region locking on the DVD menu in hte SYSTEM folder.  But does anyone know if the drives are lockable to Region 0?  Hate to think that in the future I wouldn;t be paying attention to it and locked it to something I would only have a few discs for! 

Ta everyone

Jay

 

 

 

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February 25th, 2004 15:00

Indeed.  But will a Region 1 locked drive play a region 0 disc? 

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February 25th, 2004 15:00

Region 0 is a pseudo region - you cant get locked to it - all Region 0 means is 'not region locked', which is why you cant find a spot to lock yourself to it.

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February 25th, 2004 16:00

Yes

11 Posts

February 25th, 2004 17:00

Thank You!! 

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February 27th, 2004 10:00

or get yourself a little software prog like dvd -region free.

and you can play dvds from all regions

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February 27th, 2004 21:00

I don't think you under stand the region system. The drive is not locked to region 1 now. It is set to region 1 but that can and will change if you play any other region code DVD's, other than "0". You get 5 region changes then the drive will become non functional for any other region other than the last region coded disk you played.

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February 28th, 2004 02:00

On the contrary.   I understand quite well.  I wanted to know if once locked to region 1 if it would play a region 0.  I also wanted to know that if I put a region 0 disc in on my last change if it would lock to region 0.

Both questions were answered quite nicely.

 

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February 28th, 2004 10:00

OK sorry
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