Posted by
Kez Wilson on
URL: https://www.shado-forum.com/DVD-s-tp1496098p1496111.html
--- In SHADO@y..., "anthonyappleyard" <MCLSSAA2@f...> wrote:
> 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.
Have you inquired at the online sources like Blackstar or Play724? I
think you can do better than that online. Play724's prices will
include shipping as well.
>
> 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.
If you're looking to buy a DVD recorder, I'd wait a year or so. The
prices will be dropping dramatically.
Also, do you have a CD player? Or did you hold out and continue to
play your vinyl records (on a turntable which also does not record)
until you could buy a stand alone CD player/recorder?
Or you could always buy a PVR system like TIVO, which supplants your
VCR tapes with a hard drive. Or buy a digital VCR.
> - All the DVD players that they sell are for region 2.
That's all they are supposed to sell.
> - They had not heard of DVD players that can be switched between
> regions by a button/etc.
Again, they aren't supposed to know about such things since they
aren't supposed to sell such things. Or they are just plan
uninformed. If you're interested in knowing about DVD players that
can play multiple regions and formats check out these sites:
http://www.codefreedvd.com/http://www.zonefreedvd.com/http://www.regionfreedvd.net/http://www.dvdcity.com/http://www.geocities.com/code_free_dvd_players/http://www.mailuk.com/index.shtmlhttp://www.noexpress.com/sys-tmpl/regionfreedvds/Or if you're interested in knowing which models are able to be
adjusted to play all zones via firmware updates or hidden menus, an
excellent sight for such information is:
http://www.vcdhelp.com> - 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.
The big question is: Why do you want to record them? Pricing is
becoming such that anything you want to own will be at an affordable
price and in excellent DVD quality.
>
> I am sticking with my good old faithful videotape recorder, which
> does not have all that silly mess of handicaps and handcuffs.
You mean the VCR that uses Macrovision to prevent you from recording
a pre-recorded video tape or even watching one when passed through
another VCR?
Or have you purchased a "video processor" that allows you to bypass
the Macrovision?
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.
One of the programs you may be talking about is called "Region
Killer" and it basically sets it to region 0 so the DVD drive in your
system will play the DVD.
There is also a program called DVD Genie that allows you much more
control over how your DVDs are played back through your software DVD
player.
Some sites to check out about avoiding region problems are:
http://www.digital-digest.com/dvd/articles/region.htmlhttp://www.inmatrix.com/files/dvdgenie_download.shtmlhttp://elby.ch/english/fun/software/index.htmlhttp://www.digital-digest.com/dvd/downloads/region.htmlThere are also a lot of other programs going around that can do some
pretty amazing things. As a matter of fact, if you know your way
around Usenet and newsgroups, you can download files of programs
capped from broadcasts that can either be watched on your computer or
burned to a regular CD and played in you stand-alone DVD player.
>
> 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.
The way they did this is was to make a double sided DVD. One side is
in PAL, the other in NTSC. You just have to play the side appropriate
to your player.
Both the UFO and Captain Scarlet DVD sets are in Region Zero. But you
have to have a DVD player that will convert from PAL to NTSC if
you're playing them on an NTSC system. Or pass it through an NTSC
converter.
Kez