DVD Players & Recorders

On the back of most DVD movies, in a corner somewhere, there is a small symbol of a flat world with a number printed in the center. This number refers to the DVD's region. Generally, in order to...

In the world of DVD players, it matters what part of the world you're in. On most DVD cases you'll see, generally on the back, in a corner, a small symbol of a flat world with a number printed in...

In the world of DVD players, it matters what part of the world you're in. For various reasons (some related to piracy, some to pricing), companies decided that DVDs bought in one part of the world...

DVD players allow playback of DVD movies, games and other data stored on a DVD. Most DVD players have a region encoding that specifies the area in which the DVD player was purchased. This limits...

DVDs remain the staple for viewing movies and TV shows at home. The format has proved remarkably durable--providing a sharper, clearer picture than older VHS tapes and remaining more resistant to...

When the major movie studios began releasing DVDs in the last decade, they imposed a strict region-coding requirement. Ostensibly, the goal was to cut down on piracy and allow the studios to...

Most DVD drives are region-locked. This means that if you are locked in region 1, which is the U.S., you cannot play a region 4, Australia DVD. This can be quite a problem sometimes, and Windows...

DVD players as standard will play only DVDs of a certain region relating to the country that they are manufactured or sold in. This often means however that you cannot watch imported DVDs that you...

Most commercially available DVDs come with region coding programmed onto them. This ensures that you can only play the disc in the region of the world where you purchased it. Other discs, however,...

A disc that has been coded as "Region 2" can only be played on equipment manufactured in Europe (which is where Region 2 discs are made). If you live in another part of the world (the United...

While DVD encryption is used to ensure copyright protection, a tactic of "regional" restriction is employed to protect against unlawful distribution, according to Microsoft's Tech Net. The problem...

Region-specific DVD players are a problem when you've got an out-of-region DVD you're dying to watch. Fortunately, there is a way to bypass such restrictions on most DVD players. There are several...

All DVDs sold in the U.S. are encoded for Region 1 and can only be played in Region 1 or multi-region (also called "region-free") players. Having a region-free DVD player will enable you to play...

Expatriates and international travelers who bring DVDs back home often find the foreign DVDs won't work in their DVD players. Many DVD players are set by the manufacturer to play DVDs from one of...

The main reason why a person would want to change the region on their Panasonic CV50 DVD player is to be able to play DVDs from parts of the world outside of North America. Every country of the...

There are a number of reasons why a person would want to change their Panasonic DVD player's region code. If a person is importing DVDs from another country, they won't play on a North American...

Most of the DVDs that are sold today are encoded with different region numbers that correspond to different areas of the world. For example, North America is region one, the UK and Europe are...

A Blu-Ray disc is a disc-based storage unit engineered to be the next logical step over the current DVD storage format. Each disc can hold 50 GB of data, which is almost ten times higher than the...

Region-specific DVD players are a problem when you've got an out-of-region DVD you're dying to watch. Fortunately, there is a way to bypass such restrictions on most DVD players. There are...

Region codes are put onto DVDs to determine what DVD player are compatible with the discs. The region codes are based on the region of the world the DVD and DVD player are made for. For example,...

The internet has made it easier to purchase obscure foreign movies on DVD that aren't sold in this country. DVD's have region codes so they will only play on certain DVD players. For instance, US...

The entertainment industry has created a system where DVDs and DVD players must be from the same region in order for the player to be able to read the DVD. This helps in controlling movie...

To understand region-free DVD players, we have to understand regions and region codes. Many DVD players are region-locked, or specific to only one region. A region code is used to restrict other...

When you purchase a regular DVD player, you will only be able to play DVDs that are released for your country's region code and video standards. So, if a DVD you want is only released in another...

Read about multi-region DVD players and you will uncover lots of sketchiness: the companies that make them won’t provide support for them and online reviews are mixed, with some saying they...

Many of us have a notion that only street vendors sell fake DVDs. But some local stores and online sellers also deal with counterfeit movie and music DVDs. We get tricked into believing that if...

Manufacturers of DVDs and DVD players install codes that only allow us to play DVDs that are manufactured for our region. (For example, the U.S. and Canada are region 1, while China is region 6.)...