The cursed "Region 1" DVD restriction
Being back in the states, all my Region 2 dvd's cannot play on my family's DVD players. Obviously, they only Region 1. The free region dvd player that I brought back is on the fritz. Seems the video output won't register on the TV, and on the other television sets show a rolling screen. I wonder if the trip from London to NJ via Air Freight caused some damage.
Now the site to go to: http://www.videohelp.com/ is quite useful if you need to make a DVD player region-free, or you could go to Amazon.com or some reseller web site and the DVD players they are selling come region-free. In any case, I really need to finish watching Alias Season 4 and it's good to watch it on the widescreen TV than on my flat monitor. =)
Update:
It seems my Pioneer DV-370 has a problem playing PAL DVD's (which unfortunately most of my UK movies fall under). It did play the NTSC discs fine with no problem. So it could be a problem with the video since the player should be able to play both NTSC/PAL formats. Given that the player is like two years old, and it is still giving me trouble with the PAL discs, I went to Best Buy and bought the Samsung HD-860 player.
As for the Region 1 restriction, a visit to videohelp.com offered a way to re-program the coding. Now I can play NTSC/PAL and any region I want. Success! =)
Comments
Posted by: Aaron Shaffer`
Posted on: August 7, 2006 08:45 PM
If you ever get stuck, the Freedman Center language lab has 12 region free DVD players open to everyone with a Case card.
Posted by: Joel Katona
Posted on: August 16, 2006 10:40 AM
You can also checkout this large selection of Region-free DVD Players
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