My computer is from the U.S. and I moved to Dubai, U.A.E. about a year ago. I recently bought a season of Everybody Loves Raymond from the U.S. and brought it here and when I put it in the computer, it does not work. It is an american computer with american drives and an american DVD. Why is the computer telling me that the region cannot be played? It said something about regions 1,2, and I think 4. How can I fix this?
2006-09-04 19:53:17 · 4 answers · asked by kirr45 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
I tried to put one of the drives to 2 and it said a disc with region 2 needs to be in it to change it.
2006-09-04 20:37:55 · update #1
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2006-09-04 19:59:40 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, you can't get rid of region encoding on computer DVD drives- hardware manufacturers are required to support it. You may be able to change it (I think a total of 4 times max), but that shouldn't be necessary if the machine was purchased in the USA. Just go into my computer, check the properties of the DVD drive, and there should be a DVD region tab. But don't change anything until you've confirmed the region encoding on the DVD boxset. The USA and Canada are region 1 while UAE is region 2.
There are inepensive standalone DVD players which are advertised as "region free" but even they are required to have a default region in order to be legally sold. It's just you can clear/change the region with simple commands from the remote.
2006-09-04 20:03:41 · answer #2 · answered by C-Man 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Click on wy computer icon on desk top right click on your dvd icon/properties/hardware/ double click on the dvd drive/dvd region/this will tell you the drives region you can set this up to a maximum of 4 times after which it becomes perminante the page will tell you how may times you have changed the region you can chage the region to match the dvd there if you want 1,2or 4
the region codes for dvds are
1 usa,canada
2europe,near east,south africa,japan
3south east asia
4australia,central & south america
5africa,asia,eastern europe
6china
7undefined(reserved)
8special international venues,(airplanes,cruise ships,ect
this I hope will be of use to you
2006-09-04 20:33:21 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
on your desktop, right-click "My Computer" icon, click "explore" then right-click on your DVD-drive (usually "D") then click on properties, click on "Hardware", then click on "DVD Region" - you can change the region setting that corresponds to the country you are in. but since your DVDs are from the US your dvd drive must be set to region 1. strange, but check your dvd-drive region setting whether it had automatically changed to a new region setting (?)
2006-09-04 20:07:02 · answer #4 · answered by captainslipp 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋