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| Thread ID: 121982 | 2011-11-24 09:06:00 | What DVD decoder do you use (and how you deal with regions). | Nomad (952) | PC World Chat |
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| 1245306 | 2011-11-24 19:54:00 | Yeah I was just curious to know. Will download VLC and give a go. We just hire DVD rentals, only have 2 DVDs at time of purchase of the DVD player as a gift and I bought some Warehouse 2x classics which yeah ... require a multizone player. I think our Xbox 360 and the Sony deck is region 4 only ... :confused: Just want to confirm. If you lock the DVD zone to region 4. If you reinstall Windows. You cannot alter that at all right? Unless you replace the DVD ROM? |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 1245307 | 2011-11-24 20:01:00 | Yup I'm pretty sure the Xbox is region 4 only. Unless there's a hack for it. But you'll probably get banned if you play online, if you alter anything. Depends what the model of the sony is. If its a standalone DVD player, there maybe a code you type in on the remote, that will make it allzone. Do a search for it in Google | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1245308 | 2011-11-24 20:26:00 | Thanks Speedy VLC works but I have read that online some people find it not quite so. For me at least with the 2x parallel imported DVDs (from The Warehouse). Confirmed - Xbox 360 won't work on it. The Sony - forgot the thing broke a year ago :lol: Lasted us maybe 10yrs but we seldom hire DVDs, less than a dozen a year I think and it was like $899 at the time. Now we just don't buy the real new stuff :D Just wondering - anyone that have not embraced Blue Ray yet? We haven't. |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 1245309 | 2011-11-24 20:40:00 | the free DVDFab Passkey software is good for bypassing that sort of stuff. it will let you play any region of dvd in power dvd. or you could region hack your drive. I Googled Passkey and downloaded the free version. I put one of them Warehouse DVD Imports that requires a multi-zone player into my computer's DVD player. Passkey seems to work with PowerDVD. |
Bobh (5192) | ||
| 1245310 | 2011-11-24 20:43:00 | For me VLC works with the 2 Warehouse DVDs ... | Nomad (952) | ||
| 1245311 | 2011-11-24 20:51:00 | I've got a bluray player here, only got it a few mths ago. Havent got a lot of bluray DVD's tho. Only um Night at the museum 2 and the second to last harry potter movie. Might see what the latest transformers movie BR looks like tho. That came out last week I think | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1245312 | 2011-11-24 22:58:00 | My $99 DSE DVD player is multizone On PC you can either 1) install region-free firmware to your drive 2) use a program which doesn't care, or a normal program in conjunction with something like DVD43 3) rip the DVD first with DVDDecrypter or such, which removes the region coding letting you play the ripped image with anything you like If your DVD is region different to your TV DVD player, rip with DVD Decrypter, remove region coding, reburn to DVD-RW and watch. Copy protections are STUPID! |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1245313 | 2011-11-25 00:29:00 | I read that individuals who travel with a laptop computer cannot buy/rent movies .... What's a laptop for then ... |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 1245314 | 2011-11-25 00:47:00 | Who would know, if youre using a desktop or laptop? And who said you cant? | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1245315 | 2011-11-25 23:09:00 | I use my PS3 to watch blu ray disks, have nice 46 sony and the picture is so much nicer than upscaled dvd. One advantage of the blu ray system is that we are the same region code as UK/europe. I buy from amazon.co.uk which takes only 4-5 days to arrive. Cost $20-30/movie but boxed sets are great value. I bought Downton Abby series 2 which arrived about 10 days ago so I have stopped watching it on tv as the blu ray is full hdtv and there are no ads obviously.. A. |
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