I know that cd imports are fine, but I'm not sure about dvds. Help, someone. Thanks!
2007-04-27 07:37:24 · 5 answers · asked by brandiwine33 1 in Consumer Electronics ➔ Other - Electronics
DVDs are encoded differently for various regions of the worlds. Your computer can play a DVD for one of regions for a fixed number of times after which it gets locked into that region and will not play DVDs of another region.You will not be able to revert to the original region even if you reinstall the operating system of the computer. So be wary of using non region DVDs.
2007-04-27 07:50:42 · answer #1 · answered by Rodney 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
DVD area codes is a DRM technique designed to permit action photograph studios to regulate factors of a launch, which is composed of content textile, launch date, and, quite, fee, in accordance to the area. DVD video discs may be encoded with a area code limiting the component to the worldwide wherein they may be performed. the financial DVD participant specification demands that a participant to be bought in a given place not play discs encoded for a distinctive area. Discs without area coding are called all area or area 0 discs. as nicely, many DVD gamers could be changed to be area-loose, allowing playback of all discs. There are six distinctive areas on the DVD, on an identical time as Blu-ray Disc basically has 3. additionally, significant DVD participant producer international places (Japan, u . s . and so on.) all have distinctive areas, which brought about problems for many. this is fixed in Blu-ray, as Japan (and different East Asian international places) and the Americas all have the comparable area.
2016-12-10 13:05:08 · answer #2 · answered by eisenhauer 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://www.laserrot.com/info/lrinfo/dvdmap.html
All the info on world DVD zones are available at this link. Most unlikely that a UK DVD will play on a USA player unless it has been converted to region free
2007-04-27 08:26:41 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think they will work. I know the UK is on the PAL system, and US is on NTSC. They are slightly different. You might get software on your computer to handle this and a video card to convert to your tv set. Or you might be able to use the computer to convert. In the past, converters have been expensive.
2007-04-27 08:08:03 · answer #4 · answered by RB 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would think so, DVDs aren't made differently according to where they are made.
2007-04-27 08:01:24 · answer #5 · answered by nel 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋