John Gumbs asked the Answer Line forum why you can only change a DVD drive’s region a limited number of times. Because that’s the way the Hollywood studios want it. They like to control how their ...

DVD movies and players are coded to keep sales revenues in their respective regions as well as to ensure DVDs can be released without conflict. For example, if there were no restrictions, a DVD movie ...

Reader Yati K. faces a disc-based conundrum in the near future. Said Yati writes: I’m about to move to South Africa, and I have a small-yet-precious DVD collection that I’d like to take with me. Since ...

October 20, 2005 - A new DVD Region Free product dubbed 'ZONE FREE DVD for PS2' is launching this week at www.zfdvd.com Zone Free DVD is a Playstation2 DVD disc which removes the region coding from ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Region-coding has been a controversial issue for many years. It's the practice of locking down movies and games so you can only play ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Shopping for a region-free DVD or Blu-ray player? Don't expect to get a straight answer. Over Christmas I decided to upgrade my old Sony ...

We're not quite ready to believe these things function as advertised just yet, but it seems that multi-region Blu-ray players are beginning to pop up on a few overseas websites. We're seeing a region ...

One day, I saw that it could not read the DVD disk, however, it read CDs till now. From the ‘DVD Region’ in the ‘Properties’ of the DVD-ROM drive, I found that the current region shows Region 1, but ...

Hi..<br><br>I would like to play English (region 2) DVD's on my PC here in the U.S.<br>Is there an easy way to do this?<br><br>In my living room I have a region free DVD player with a PAL converter so ...

Does this page help in any way?<BR><BR>It looks as though the Zenith DVD players will play region free, but not right out of the box.<BR><BR>Maybe putting in a DVD for the correct region (am i right ...

"Oh, bollocks." No, we can't definitively prove that Gordon Brown said that after witnessing a "Wrong Region" code when inserting a DVD given to him by Barack Obama, but we're sure something of the ...

[XanTium] sent this in a few days ago, but I thought you guys would dig it. Here are the details straight from his email: Hackers on the XBH forums managed to change DVD key and Game Region Code in ...