Posted by anthonyappleyard <MCLSSAA2@fs2.mt.umist.ac.uk> on
URL: https://www.shado-forum.com/DVD-s-tp1496098.html

My two cents worth about this.

I live in England, which is in DVD region 2. Today I went to His
Master's Voice in Market Street in Manchester and asked abou6t UFO
DVS's. I found that #1 #2 #3 #4 were for sale so far, with episodes 1
to 13 inclusive on. Price £8 each, which would be £64 for the set
when the rest of the episodes come out.

I then enquired at a nearby electronics shop and was told:-
- A DVD player that can record would cost about £900 and then it
would record in region 2 mde, so the result would only be playable in
region 2.
- All the DVD players that they sell are for region 2.
- They had not heard of DVD players that can be switched between
regions by a button/etc.
- Some movies have a special code to stop DVD-recorders from
recording them. I suspect that that means that nearly all the best TV
programs will have that code in, and that for all my £900 spent I
would not be able to use it much.

I am sticking with my good old faithful videotape recorder, which
does not have all that silly mess of handicaps and handcuffs. I heard
on the internet somewhere that there is a PC program going the rounds
on the internet, that can translate DVD's between regions and bypass
all this silly mess.

At the convention, the speaker pointed out that the Space Police
DVD that was on sale there, was DVD region #0 and thus playable
anywhere. I think he also said that some other DVD's (it may have
been the UFO DVD's?) were also actually region #0.