no_alibi Posted March 27, 2006 Report Share Posted March 27, 2006 I recently bought one of my favourite old TV shows (unfortunately owned now by Sony) on DVD. Bewitched, Season 1.Anyway, this would have been a great set of discs, except for one thing. SONY. This doesn't work on my Multiregion DVD Player. I've noticed there is a warning on the Amazon.com page that this won't work on Multiregion DVDs - but that it only applies to the region 1 release. This is not mentioned anywhere on Amazon.co.uk, regarding the Region 2 release, nor on the box or packaging. I assume this is another attempt by Sony to enforce their own Digital Rights management. Policing the digital world as usual.Anyone else encountered anything similar. Why do Sony feel the need to protect us from ourselves, and impose draconian (and unnecessary) restrictions on content we effectively own anyway!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Stuge Posted March 27, 2006 Report Share Posted March 27, 2006 Even I don`t understand this region thing in DVD`s till now why These Companies don`t want their Dvd`s to be used in other parts of the world .. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
no_alibi Posted March 27, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 27, 2006 (edited) I wouldn't mind, only I live in Region 2, bought my DVD player in Region 2, and bought the DVDs in Region 2. Everything should have been fine. Except for Sony's "extra layer of protection". Protecting me from myself. God forbid I should watch a Region 2 DVD in Region 2 on a machine which just happens to play all regions (not even hacked! I bought it that way - in Region 2!) Edited March 27, 2006 by no_alibi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imagine_ Posted March 27, 2006 Report Share Posted March 27, 2006 Why don't you call them up and let them know what you think? I'm sure they will send you one that will work for free, they have no reason not to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pata2001 Posted March 28, 2006 Report Share Posted March 28, 2006 no_alibi said: I wouldn't mind, only I live in Region 2, bought my DVD player in Region 2, and bought the DVDs in Region 2. Everything should have been fine. Except for Sony's "extra layer of protection". Protecting me from myself. God forbid I should watch a Region 2 DVD in Region 2 on a machine which just happens to play all regions (not even hacked! I bought it that way - in Region 2!)Seems that your DVD player is not "really" region 2, but region 0 or no region, which allow it to play all region. Unfortunately, the movie industry caught up on this, and now some DVDs have a region check protection, meaning they check if the DVD player has the EXACT same region as the disc or not. So to play region 2, you MUST have region 2 player. Region 0, no region, even all region won't work.Easy way to get rid of this crap, if you have a PC with a DVD drive and DVD burner, find and download DVDdecrypter. Use DVD decrypter to rip the DVD and remove any copy protection. Even if the region of your DVD-drive doesn't match the DVD disc, DVD decrypter will use brute force method. I have ripped plenty of region 2 and 3 DVDs, and my DVD drive is firmware locked as region 1. After that, burn/transcode the movie to a DVD blank, and voila, a region free copy. I have to do this many times since I live in the US (region 1), and there are many things I have/want that are only available in region 2 or 3. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madleet3 Posted April 6, 2006 Report Share Posted April 6, 2006 wow tat is alot of work to get it redo in the correct region strange doh why they want to control dvd in regions Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pata2001 Posted April 6, 2006 Report Share Posted April 6, 2006 madleet3 said: wow tat is alot of work to get it redo in the correct region strange doh why they want to control dvd in regionsThe idea is to protect ticket sale at the movies, since a movie might have come out in DVD in country A, but yet reach the theaters in country B. However, most blockbusters today enjoy simultaneous worldwide release, making the excuse above invalid. IMO, regioning only creates piracy in the country where the DVD has not been released.Regioning games doesn't make sense either, but companies are doing it anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Stuge Posted April 6, 2006 Report Share Posted April 6, 2006 pata2001 said: The idea is to protect ticket sale at the movies, since a movie might have come out in DVD in country A, but yet reach the theaters in country B. However, most blockbusters today enjoy simultaneous worldwide release, making the excuse above invalid. IMO, regioning only creates piracy in the country where the DVD has not been released.Regioning games doesn't make sense either, but companies are doing it anyway.Not sure but Most of the Hollywood Films doesn`t reach Indian theaters simultaneously .I think it b`coz Bollywood makes most Number of films in a year ..Yeah,This regioning thing only creates piracy & nothing else . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSP62 Posted April 6, 2006 Report Share Posted April 6, 2006 Stuge said: .... Bollywood makes mo....Ah Bollywood, I wonder what it is like over there. PS - Stuge you need to find me a mail order bride from there. LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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