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young1
27th April 2008, 05:02
I am currently in Nepal on holiday about to return home.

If I buy DVDs here will they work on my DVD player at home? I just have a basic $60.00 player from Dick Smiths

(This is NOT a discussion about Pirate DVDs!!)

nallac
27th April 2008, 07:41
yeah they will work, we have got the same cheap DS dvd player.
They play any zones.
Unlike our new Vista run laptop:(

CookMySock
27th April 2008, 08:09
the cheapo disk smith player runs LINUX thats why it plays them. microsoft will clearly not allow such freedoms as playing a DVD you rightfully own.

DB

Badcat
27th April 2008, 08:59
the cheapo disk smith player runs LINUX thats why it plays them. microsoft will clearly not allow such freedoms as playing a DVD you rightfully own.

DB
the region lock is in the firmware of the player mechanism.
i hate windows more than the next man, but DVD players don't run PC operating systems.
if you put a region locked PC DVDROM drive in a windows Linux, or MacOS box, you'd get the same result, no dice on an out of set region disc.

you can't blame bill for this one.

ken

Disco Dan
27th April 2008, 09:15
Some DSE drives play all zones, even though they say just zone 4.

I would not go and buy a huge stack of them - but there are programs and many ways of removing the zone lock from DVD's. So one way or another you would be able to watch them.

young1
27th April 2008, 15:21
Thanks everyone