topic Re: DVD regions in PCs & Accessories

DVD regions

gfaelli — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 18:31:50 GMT

Hello guys,
I've bought my vaio in the UK and now I'm in Brazil, wich is located in a different "DVD region", right?!
So, I changed my DVD drive region to run brazilian DVDs.
The problem is: the DVDs image quality is not the same as I used to have with UK's DVDs. Well, is there any software I have to install or any driver, or something?? :smileyhypnotized:

Thanks a lot,
Gustavo

Re: DVD regions

kee-lo_ — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 19:10:01 GMT

Latin America is in region 4
I shouldn't think the quality was less than other regions

Have you tried VLC ?

Re: DVD regions

gfaelli — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 19:48:07 GMT

Hi Kee-Lo,
I havent tried yet, but I'm gonna do it now...

And by the way, the quality at the same DVD disk when I play it in a "brazilian DVD player" is ok...:smileyconfused:

Re: DVD regions

kee-lo_ — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 22:08:45 GMT

Now that's odd.
Maybe Tony knows of something that I don't

Re: DVD regions

tonybeard — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 00:12:06 GMT

I've been watching region 4 DVD's all day long. What you doing down here in the middle of winter LOL? Play the movie you want in Media Player 10 and it will automatically ask if you want to change the region to 4. Do so. Then the settings are fine for WinDVD. Another option is to download K-LiteCodecPack herewhich is all region savvy especially BS Player. here

Re: DVD regions

rosen — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 19:06:01 GMT

Use "DVD Region+CSS Free" and it will solve all of your problems for sure without need to change the region on the drive, 'cos you can do it just 4 times.
Good luck.:smileyhappy:

Re: DVD regions

Lizzie — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 19:51:46 GMT

'cos you can do it just 4 times.

be careful how many times you do change it, as rosen said you've only a few chances to change it. after the changes remaining reaches zero, you can't change the region even if you reinstall windows or move your dvd drive to a different computer.

Re: DVD regions

kee-lo_ — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 22:22:48 GMT

It's written to the RAM in the firmware