Buying DVDs

[young1]

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]

yeah they will work, we have got the same cheap DS dvd player.
They play any zones.
Unlike our new Vista run laptop

[CookMySock]

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]

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]

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]

Thanks everyone