fight the power!

[fringe_dweller]

seen this site years ago, and forgot about it! but recently reminded of it, thankfully. also site seems bigger and better than i remember.
I know the cheap junk dvd players are region free usually, but the high end ones have the region BS, us in with the mexicans.

so if you are like me and buy rarer or unusual stuff from overseas that you cant get in 'region 4' off amazon ect. and have a nice locally bought region 4 player, and dont want to rip, shrink and zero everything, this can be very handy to say the least! worked for my LG perfectly and a denon i have.

http://www.videohelp.com/dvdhacks

[Starkler]

Yep the trick is to google up the region free hack code for a particular model before deciding on a purchase.

[fringe_dweller]

ahh thats what everyone does eh! didnt know it was common knowledge! the two players i mentioned are a couple of years old now, so that helps i spose - i'm used to thinking of eggs and hacks for everything else, but not dedicated dvd players lol
anyway time to order that crossroads 2007 dvd woohoo!! music concert dvds seem to be the worst for being region 1 or 2 :mad2: dont they won't the extra sales? :screwy:

[Kal]

Reminds me of my very first DVD player I bought years ago. A made in China yum-cha branded one that was simple to make region free and remove macrovision. For a dirt cheap $400 at the time, it still works fine to this day :)

[fringe_dweller]

my old $50? DSE I used for years when it didnt matter, was region free from new :)

[Glenhuon]

I queried ACCC about the region coding on computer DVD players/burners last week. My argument was that most DVD players for TV's are region free, why not the ones made for computers. Answer I got was BS, said it was about copyright protection. The region setting and the CSS are two different systems, even when device is set for region free it has no effect on the copyright protection. He quoted me a case against Sony in 2004 which Sony won, but from memory it was about having CSS on the disks, not the region coding. Its a marketing ploy so they can charge the equivalent of A$10 for a disk in the US and A$25 for it here. He gave me a number for the Aus copyright department, but I've yet to contact them. Probably get the same BS anyway.

Bill

[fringe_dweller]

Hi Bill,

I hate that about computers/systems as well - its outrageous really, oh they dont mind selling them on an international site like amazon or whatever, I dunno, you do the right thing and pay with your hard earned for dvd's legally, and then you're not allowed to play them on your own puter or nice dvd player!!, pretty cheeky - thats just encouraging more ill will towards those companies, and more piracy?
I agree about the difference between rf and copyright, that sure is being obtuse and condescending really, for them to say that.
I recently tried to copy a rare long unavailable bass guitar hot licks series master class from allen woody, for a friend, onto my HD recorder, via a still nice old last of the sony stereo 6 head VHS players. The copyright on the VHS wouldnt let me do it!!! i was amazed this 80's VHS tape had this sophisticated CSS!! i dont have a video capture card, so someone else had to do it on there puter - np with that.
let us know what they say at that department - I'm not holding my breath
specially as the puter companies get further and further into bed with the motion picture industry :mad2:

[JethroB76]

Use something like Anydvd - which will bypass any of these copy protection methods - for personal backups of course..

[fringe_dweller]

hey JethroB76, thanks, but that's just a ripper?, I can already do that! :) shouldnt have to do anything, just play it :) and i use a mac mostly

[JethroB76]

By default it tells the DVD burner that its a friendly region and disables any of the copy protection, whether you want to burn or play..I assumed this was your problem, sorry I must have misinterpreted..

[fringe_dweller]

ahh no probs JB - no need to say sorry dude, so you dont need to save it to your hard drive in order to just simply play a movie? i think maybe i am the one misinterpreting - the mysterious world of windoze!

well well, so the region free version of hi def lost eh, surprise surprise! that sucks, altho i was goin for blue ray as it is the mac favoured version, i didnt know HD-DVD was region free!! how long would of that lasted anyway i wonder? oh dear

http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,25642,23231479-5014239,00.html