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Just about to order some DVD's over the internet and it starts telling me about region 2 dvd. Not clear about this can anyone help? PF
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the world is divided up into a few regions. A few years back most dvd players in the UK were locked to a certin region (2) but now, alot of players are unlocked (or region free)
your dvd player will have a symbol on it somewhere telling you the region. something like this
This is how the regions are broken up, and some more details.
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Explained
0 No Region Coding
1 United States of America, Canada
2 Europe, including France, Greece, Turkey, Egypt, Arabia, Japan and South Africa
3 Korea, Thailand, Vietnam, Borneo and Indonesia
4 Australia and New Zealand, Mexico, the Caribbean, and South America
5 India, Africa, Russia and former USSR countries
6 Peoples Republic of China
7 Unused
8 Airlines/Cruise Ships
9 Expansion (often used as region free)
Regions 2 is UK and Japan
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8 Airlines/Cruise Ships
Does anyone else think this map would look better if there were a few cartoon cruise ships with a number 8 above them swimming around?
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DVD Regions suck!
Kill them with this (For your PC):
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There are also ways to make your DVD player "region-free" without downloading any software. This usually involves pressing a combination of different buttons on your remote control on certain menu screens
If someone hypothetically wanted to do this, they could hypothetically type the name of their DVD player, plus "region free crack" into Google and see what results they got. This would lead to sites providing the necessary information
All hypothetically of course...
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There are also ways to make your DVD player "region-free" without downloading any software. This usually involves pressing a combination of different buttons on your remote control on certain menu screens
If someone hypothetically wanted to do this, they could hypothetically type the name of their DVD player, plus "region free crack" into Google and see what results they got. This would lead to sites providing the necessary information
All hypothetically of course...
Or go to .
Nothing hypothetical about it - it's a damn good site
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Or go to .
Nothing hypothetical about it - it's a damn good site
Was saying hypothetically coz I assume if anyone did this in practice it may be slightly...erm..."less than legal"!!
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Was saying hypothetically coz I assume if anyone did this in practice it may be slightly...erm..."less than legal"!!
Don't think so. The manufacturers have to sell the players with region encoding, but there is no law about you or me or the shops making them multi-region (hence the large number of shop selling multi-region players).
Most manufacturers leak their own hacks as they want people to know they can hack their players to increase sales.
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If he's talking about his Computer DVD Drive, then it cannot be unlocked without flashing some modified firmware or using software!
However, if it's a Standalone DVD Player connected to the TV, then yes tap a few numbers in to access usually 'secret' region menus!
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So frustrating that they do this. Quite silly, really.
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Princess Fiona what DVD player do you have? If it's one featured you may be able to buy dvds from any region.