I brought some DVD's of my son's marriage from India. When I tried to play these in a DVD player here in US, it doesn't play. Why? What is the solution?
2006-12-29 11:30:38 · 9 answers · asked by SKA 2 in Consumer Electronics ➔ Home Theater
Your dic a DVD player are made for two different regions:
From Wikipedia:
Each DVD-Video disc contains one or more region codes, denoting the area[s] of the world in which distribution and playback are intended. The commercial DVD player specification dictates that a player must only play discs that contain its region code. In theory, this allows the motion picture studios to control the various aspects of a release (including content, date and price) on a region-by-region basis. In practice, many DVD players allow playback of any disc, or can be modified to do so. Entirely independent of encryption, region coding pertains to regional lockout, which originated in the video game industry.
Here are the regions:
0 Informal term meaning "playable in all regions"
1 Bermuda, Canada, United States and U.S. territories
2 The Middle East, Western Europe, Central Europe, Egypt, French overseas territories, Greenland, Japan, Lesotho, South Africa and Swaziland
3 Southeast Asia, Hong Kong, Macau, South Korea and Taiwan
4 Australia, Central America, the Caribbean, Mexico, Oceania, South America
5 The rest of Africa, Former Soviet Union, the Indian subcontinent, Mongolia, North Korea
6 Mainland China
7 Reserved for future use (found in use on protected screener copies of MPAA-related DVDs, and "media-copies" of pre-releases in Asia)
8 International venues such as aircraft, cruise ships, etc.
Unless you have a DVD player (from India) or a multiregion DVD player you won't be able to play that disc.
2006-12-29 11:45:42 · answer #1 · answered by tooteaching 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do a search for "DVD Region Coding"
Ever notice the logo with a 0 with the earth behind it on the back of a DVD? OOohhh... so thats what thats all about huh? LOL
The next dude just reminded me that this is region code 1 but North American players will also play anything with the 0 code.
2006-12-29 11:39:22 · answer #2 · answered by wizardslizards 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it may not even be where as much is how it was. what kind of format was it saved in or what type of disc. Remember this if you have it on a DVD-r disc you can only play it on the original recorder device or an exact copy of that machine. In order to play it it must be an DVD-rw disc typically. Another problem people encounter is the fact that their machine isn't friendly to either of these. Meaning you have just a regular DVD player. In a nut shell what I would recommend is to take it to your local videographer shop and ask them to convert it to a friendly version for you, if the wedding is very important to you you will end up spending between $20-$40 for their labor.
2006-12-29 12:27:02 · answer #3 · answered by inksmithaddict 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably different region codes (USA/North America Region 1) and India (Region 5). The DVD player/burner makers created the regions to limit copying of movies (copyright protection). You can find an all-region DVD player in the U.S. The symbols are on the box....
2006-12-29 11:42:42 · answer #4 · answered by Stephan P 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes it should work...as long as u have the NTSC to PAL converter..it should work...unless the TV's compenent wires (red, yellow, and white) are different in India.
2016-03-29 00:15:20 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What you could try is to go to my computer, control panel, then to system and then to hardware and finally device manager. there is a change of location you can try.
2006-12-29 12:03:33 · answer #6 · answered by egotist61 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
different region coding silly
2006-12-29 14:11:52 · answer #7 · answered by Kendra S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Different systems. They do that on purpose.
2006-12-29 11:37:41 · answer #8 · answered by GucciGirl 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
two diffnent places
2006-12-29 11:33:04 · answer #9 · answered by Destiny W 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋