I live in the UK and have been using my computer to play Region 1 (American) DVDs. I just insert the DVD into the player and the opening frame of the DVD appears and I press Play. Recently a friend gave me several Region 1 DVDs. Some of them worked perfectly well, but when I inserted the others nothing happened. These played with no trouble on my friend's computer, but, like me, he knows nothing about computers so could not tell me what might be wrong. What do you think?
Thank you very much.
Full Version: Difficulty playing DVDs
I don't know but it doesn't sound like a region issue if you can play most region 1 discs. Basically the DVD drives in computers allow you to switch regions a few times and then are locked to one region. In your case presumably region 1.
The only way round that is to use software that overrides the region protection on the disc. Strictly frowned upon by the Film industry but personally I think that this whole region thing is a complete scam to allow them to over charge us. Provided you are buying legitimate discs, I think everyone should have the right to play them. [NOTE: THIS REPRESENTS MY PERSONAL VIEW AND DOES NOT NECESSARILY REPRESENT THE VIEWS OF THE OWNER OF THIS WEBSITE.]
However as I say, it doesn't sound like a region issue. Did you go into My Computer and try double clicking on the disc to see if it would play? I know normally they auto play but I have known some DVDs that won't.
The only way round that is to use software that overrides the region protection on the disc. Strictly frowned upon by the Film industry but personally I think that this whole region thing is a complete scam to allow them to over charge us. Provided you are buying legitimate discs, I think everyone should have the right to play them. [NOTE: THIS REPRESENTS MY PERSONAL VIEW AND DOES NOT NECESSARILY REPRESENT THE VIEWS OF THE OWNER OF THIS WEBSITE.]
However as I say, it doesn't sound like a region issue. Did you go into My Computer and try double clicking on the disc to see if it would play? I know normally they auto play but I have known some DVDs that won't.
QUOTE (Grasshopper @ Aug 12 2009, 11:29 AM) 
I don't know but it doesn't sound like a region issue if you can play most region 1 discs. Basically the DVD drives in computers allow you to switch regions a few times and then are locked to one region. In your case presumably region 1.
The only way round that is to use software that overrides the region protection on the disc. Strictly frowned upon by the Film industry but personally I think that this whole region thing is a complete scam to allow them to over charge us. Provided you are buying legitimate discs, I think everyone should have the right to play them. [NOTE: THIS REPRESENTS MY PERSONAL VIEW AND DOES NOT NECESSARILY REPRESENT THE VIEWS OF THE OWNER OF THIS WEBSITE.]
However as I say, it doesn't sound like a region issue. Did you go into My Computer and try double clicking on the disc to see if it would play? I know normally they auto play but I have known some DVDs that won't.
The only way round that is to use software that overrides the region protection on the disc. Strictly frowned upon by the Film industry but personally I think that this whole region thing is a complete scam to allow them to over charge us. Provided you are buying legitimate discs, I think everyone should have the right to play them. [NOTE: THIS REPRESENTS MY PERSONAL VIEW AND DOES NOT NECESSARILY REPRESENT THE VIEWS OF THE OWNER OF THIS WEBSITE.]
However as I say, it doesn't sound like a region issue. Did you go into My Computer and try double clicking on the disc to see if it would play? I know normally they auto play but I have known some DVDs that won't.
Thank you very much. I will try that.
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