Can anyone tell me how does one ascertain the region code for a DVD. This may seem very simple to most of you and I take it if you live in the USA all codes would be for United States etc. Why are there different codes is it for compatability such as pal ntsc and alike?
Most discs dont give any info of its region code. What is the problems encountered if one was to decrypt a disc using region USA when the disc if from another country? Is it critical to know of its origin or code base???
Has anyone tried to decrypt the Lizzie McGuire DVD movie? I know its not everyones ideal movie but my daughter is a avid fan but I cant even get it written to the hard drive!!! It reads several .vob files but when it gets to about No 4 file it just loses its read rate and lags on without any further tranfer. Tried DVDenc and dvd fab. Cant understand why this happens> Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
Quote:REGION 1 -- USA, Canada
REGION 2 -- Japan, Europe, South Africa, Middle East, Greenland
REGION 3 -- S.Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Parts of South East Asia
REGION 4 -- Australia, New Zealand, Latin America (including Mexico)
REGION 5 -- Eastern Europe, Russia, India, Africa
REGION 6 -- China
REGION 7 -- Reserved for Unspecified Special Use
REGION 8 -- Resevered for Cruise Ships, Airlines, etc...
REGION 0 or REGION ALL -- Discs are uncoded and can be played Worldwide, however, PAL discs must be played in a PAL-compatible unit and NTSC discs must be played in an NTSC-compatible unit.
"Can anyone tell me how does one ascertain the region code for a DVD."
- Normally it's written on the back of the original case, a globe with a number inside of it.
Another way to tell is have AnyDVD it will tell you for sure what region the disc is.
"Why are there different codes is it for compatability such as PALNTSC and alike?"
- It's more of a control issue. So that a movie can be released in for example Canada and not the UK. Therefor a disc couldn't be mailed from Canada to the UK and played.
"Most discs dont give any info of its region code. What is the problems encountered if one was to decrypt a disc using region USA when the disc if from another country? Is it critical to know of its origin or code base???"
- As I mentioned before a little program called AnyDVD, it runs in the background and removes any region codes and encryption. Thus (I live in Canada) I could take a region 2 disc and put it in my DVD Drive and make a backup without any problems.
"Has anyone tried to decrypt the Lizzie McGuire DVD movie? I know its not everyones ideal movie but my daughter is a avid fan but I cant even get it written to the hard drive!!! It reads several .VOB files but when it gets to about No 4 file it just loses its read rate and lags on without any further tranfer."
-I've backup my copy of Lizzie McGuire Region 1 disc without any problems. I have AnyDVD running in the background and riped with DVD Shrink.
Hope this sorta helps you out.
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Ok I understand the posts. I may have not explained myself properly. You see i can understand what the region code relates to but I was more after the method of distinguishing where a DVD originates from. For example I would assume that an american production set would have its code under the region of 1 and so forth. But if that same movie is released in Australia would that code then be designed under region 4 seeing that its sold there? Or would it still be region 1. Some DVDs dont indicate of where it originates so as Deline indicates AnyDVD will give that information. I get the picture overall but just was wondering if you get an odd "phantom" dvd originating from who knows where???? Then the region code becomes an essential element to identify its code.
@stevedvd - the easiest way around your predicament (in addition to Deline's reply, and if you don't have AnyDVD) is to 'region-free' your burner(s) and standalone player(s) then the whole region thing becomes completely irrelevant.
