DVD regions are an annoyance from an end user’s standpoint as they make it impossible to view movies from different regions regularly. A limit of five region code changes is usually permitted after which it becomes impossible to switch to another region which ultimately means that DVDs and Blu-Rays from those other regions cannot be [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Although Blu-Ray has won the battle of this generations HD formats against HD-DVD it is still far away from winning the battle against the DVD format. The majority of Blu-Ray players had made their way into the homes in the form of the Sony Playstation 3. PC users can purchase Blu-Ray players and the more [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Today I had a problem playing a Region 2 DVD on my Region 1 DVD drive installed in Windows. I was asked to change the Region of my DVD drive to play the DVD movie and that I would only have 3 changes left become the change would become permanent. This was a relative new [...]

Categories: Hardware, Knowledge

DVD region codes, how I hate them. I never quite understood why every player and dvd created had to have a region code implemented to prevent playback of DVDs from other regions. If I was to move from the United States to Germany or Britain I would have to import all DVDs for my US DVD player because I would not be able to play DVDs sold in Germany or Britain on that player. The other possibility would be to buy a European DVD player which would not play my US DVDs that I purchased back in the States.

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