[Year 12 IPM] OT - Region 1 DVDs

[Pamela Wright]

Being from the UK, I often get DVDs from England, which I can play on my
laptop, but  a very helpful member of Dick Smith's staff told me that
most of the cheap DVD players (i.e. the $70-worth ones) will play
multi-regions.

I've not tested this out though!
Pam

Pam Wright
Lecturer
School of Educational Studies
La Trobe University
9479 2765

-----Original Message-----
From: Bricks J. Winzer [mailto:sarcophagus13 at iprimus.com.au] 
Sent: Thursday, 23 February 2006 12:02 AM
To: Year 12 Information Technology Processing and Management
Teachers'Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Year 12 IPM] OT - Region 1 DVDs

It will play only on a so-called region-free player.  I've seen a few 
players labelled as such which don't work with many (or any) foreign
discs.

Australia is Region 4 which corresponds to the PAL format down here;
Region 
1 is the USA in NTSC.

Computers with DVD drives can usually play other regions no problem, but
it 
depends on the player software.  My friend found that his player would
only 
let him change the region a fixed number of times.  Others find they can

change it at will.

B.J.

Jill Renison wrote:
> Greetings all
> If I buy a DVD from Amazon that is coded Region 1, will I be able to 
> play it here? As far as I know it does not have the extra encoding
(have 
> forgotten the name of the technology). It's /The Merchant of Venice/ 
> with Al Pacino, which hasn't been released here as far as I know, but 
> would be really useful for Yr 10 English at our school.
> Cheers
> Jill