DVD regions

Not on Linux. Just install the - ahem - 'unofficial' libdvdcss stuff..and Robert is your relative..

I think a lot of countries are saying that regionalisation is a form ofimport restriction for a global market, but of course attempt to say that to a struggling indipendent retailer who is not selling his region 2 stuff as its cheaper from outside the uk or europe.

Brian

Thanks of reminding me about that site. I just used it to set my Samsung DVD/VHS Player/Recorder, which I got via Freecycle, to multi-region. I already have a multi-region, multi-System multi-Hz, multi-voltage, Toshiba DVD player, but the Samsung is already connected into the viewing system.

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Thanks of reminding me about that site. I just used it to set my Samsung DVD/VHS Player/Recorder, which I got via Freecycle, to multi-region. I already have a multi-region, multi-System multi-Hz, multi-voltage, Toshiba DVD player, but the Samsung is already connected into the viewing system. ...

Sadly my in-laws Toshiba DVD/video can't be unlocked, but then it's a US model and the US doesn't seem to believe that there could possibly be anything worth watching from outside of the country.

Paul DS

I was living in the US when I got the Toshiba. There is a company called DVDoverseas, near Chicago, that knows about this stuff. I doubt they could help with unlocking, though. I agree with you on the US insularity, thank goodness for the NPR network.

Ian Jackson wrote: [snip]

Isn't the LiteOn Label used by Sony, too?

Depends on which dvd player is installed in the computer.

Dunno. Doubt it.

Just found a local dealer who was happy to sell me a new Toshiba DVD player and convert it to region-free for me (for no extra charge !) - and prove it by playing a region 1 DVD on it.

Thanks to all for the many interesting comments and advice: this newsgroup just gets better and better.

In message , Jim Hawkins writes

Out of interest, what is the model number?

Toshiba SD2010KB

Region-free 'hack' here - looks like 30 seconds work at the most. No wonder you weren't charged!

something in writing that says it can be, than to find out later that you can't unlock it & can't return it on that basis.

I'm certainly not suggesting that it wasn't a good idea to get the dealer to make the DVD player region-free. [Actually, I doubt if many vendors would have been so obliging.] I simply posted the information to show how easy some of the hacks are. On the other hand, some hacks seem to be quite complicated, and maybe not for the faint-hearted.

I agree!

You don't know till you try.