LeazesMag 0 Posted March 11, 2011 Share Posted March 11, 2011 which areas work on our equipment here in the UK, are we R2 ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sammynb 2934 Posted March 11, 2011 Share Posted March 11, 2011 (edited) which areas work on our equipment here in the UK, are we R2 ? For PAL DVDs, the UK is R2, Australia R4, R0 will play on any DVD but remember some the whole PAL/NTSC thing is an added trap. Most DVD players can be reset to play all regions but you need to find the code to do it. Wikipedia's page on DVD regions Edited March 11, 2011 by sammynb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeazesMag 0 Posted March 11, 2011 Author Share Posted March 11, 2011 which areas work on our equipment here in the UK, are we R2 ? For PAL DVDs, the UK is R2, Australia R4, R0 will play on any DVD but remember some the whole PAL/NTSC thing is an added trap. Most DVD players can be reset to play all regions but you need to find the code to do it. Wikipedia's page on DVD regions I'd rather not mess around with the codes, I want to get some sets of a yank soap comedy but they all appear to be imports Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sammynb 2934 Posted March 11, 2011 Share Posted March 11, 2011 which areas work on our equipment here in the UK, are we R2 ? For PAL DVDs, the UK is R2, Australia R4, R0 will play on any DVD but remember some the whole PAL/NTSC thing is an added trap. Most DVD players can be reset to play all regions but you need to find the code to do it. Wikipedia's page on DVD regions I'd rather not mess around with the codes, I want to get some sets of a yank soap comedy but they all appear to be imports As I said it's not just regions it's also PAL v NTSC, so you may have a PAL DVD player that plays all regions but doesn't play NTSC. BTW your computer's DVD drive will generally play all and either PAL or NTSC, if you're happy to sit at it and watch them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted March 11, 2011 Share Posted March 11, 2011 Aye Leazes, most DVD players (or lots anyway) are actually multi-region but they've just been configured in the factory so that they only play Region 2 (in the case of the UK etc.). You can normally reset them quite easily, and there are plenty forums / sites out there with codes on for different makes and models. I set mine to region 0 so that it plays everything. Word of warning though, if you set it to region 1 then back to 2 and so on be careful as some of them have an inbuilt limit so that you can only set the value ten times or whatever before it stops being re-configurable. Setting it to Region 0 avoids this anyway like. If you've got an expensive DVD player and you really don't want to mess with it an alternative could be to get a cheap one (some of them are unbelievably cheap now on Amazon etc.) just for playing non-Region 2 DVDs. Just check first that it's a one that can be easily configured for different regions. i.e. see the same forums / sites. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeazesMag 0 Posted March 11, 2011 Author Share Posted March 11, 2011 thanks everybody. Some of the ads state these DVD's are R2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted March 11, 2011 Share Posted March 11, 2011 Should be fine then. See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD_region_code Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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