[pchelpers] Re: DVD

Funnily, just about 2 hours ago, I was in the local store looking at dvd
players.  Here in New Zealand most machines you buy are multi zone - they
will play any dvd.

Actually, there are 6 geographical zones and 2 additional zones:
Zone 1: North America
Zone 2: Europe, Japan, South Africa, Israel, Lebanon, Middle-East.
Zone 3: Korea
Zone 4: South America and Australia
Zone 5: Russia, North-East countries, Africa.
Zone 6: China
Zone 7: Reserved
Zone 8: Special international venues (airplanes, cruise ships, etc.)

I reckon you could probably get all the info you need from a google search.
Here is one link that tells you how to multizone a number of players:
http://www.strathfield.com/faq.asp?faqid=65&faqcatid=10

Cheers
Nigel


> Hello all, hope you're all well.........I have a question about DVD's, not
the PC type but the type that plugs into you TV.
> I was listening to a chap telling someone that DVD's (players) have a code
that allows you to watch discs from say......America or other parts of the
world.  The essence was that the world is divided into 5 zones and each zone
has it's own code, and DVD's sold in England had a different code than those
sold in America or Hong Kong etc. The reason was to stop disks being brought
from America and sold here before the movie had been released in the UK or
elsewhere, but if you knew the codes, you could program the DVD player to
accept these disks.  Anyone heard of this? or better still know the codes
for these world zones
>
> Billy


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