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[Greyhound]

Hi,

I've been told that new DVD titles will soon be able to detect players that have been chipped for multi region playback. I can't remember the first title that will be subject to this but I think it will be produced by Warner. Can anyone provide any more info about this? Does this mean that players that have automatic detection will be useless against these discs?

I'm thinking about getting a chipped Tosh 100E but am now unsure whether it'll be worth it. Is there another player that I should consider that would still work with these new discs?

Cheers

Hi... What happens to people with multi-region Out-of-the-box-DVD's ? I have a Micromega Multi-Region from factory DVD... Any Idea on how this will effect me ?

Rui

[Matt]

Read up on this at www.dvdtimes.co.uk or www.dvdtimes.org.uk There is a number of posts on the forum and news articles.

[DaveH]

Just read all that very interesting.

I think I'll be screwed.

Although I bought a player from abroad it was a Hong Kong region 3 player that has always played region 1. It was never tampered with or chipped.

The general feeling is if you have a manual selection player you're laughing.

I don't know what that holds for me.

Cool. I've just bought a pronto. I'll just program it to have two play buttons or something.

If you're having a problem convincing the MRS that a pronto is a must have then explain to her how she'll have to choose the region as well as turn on all your devices and set them to the right settings before she can watch a film. She'll probably buy it for you !

[Mark]

Just tested The Patriot on various multi-region dvd players from Pioneer and Panasonic.The disc played fine on all machines. Hope this helps.

[Greyhound]

Were any of these players equppied with auto-mods? It seems that if you've got manual switching you're ok but auto mods may be affected.

[DaveH]

Hmm,

Where did you here this from?

If there is any truth to this then it will just force us to buy abroad and sod UK Machines.

That's what I did with my player it's never had a problem playing anything. Except English Region 2's of course!

[Bada Bing]

The Patriot and Perfect Storm are the first. I suspect if you are able to preset your player to a specific region you'll be okay.

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[DaveH]

Good point. Were they auto or manual.

Also what can those poor gits do like myself whose player was never chipped but just happened to play region 1 as there is a switch on the board inside to disable multiregion.

DaveH, my feeling is that if your player will play R1 but not R2 then it probably hasn't been set to say "Region 0", which would play most R2 disks. And the discussion on this subject in the "dvd movies" section of this forum seems to conclude, on the basis of a letter from DVD Debate, that only R0 players will be affected.

So if your machine doesn't play R2 or 3, chances are it's hardwired to say its a R1 player... and RCE disks will work. Good luck!

I have a USA imported Pioneer 606, hardware R1 with an auto-selection mod for 2-6. The company I bought it from say it will work fine with RCE. I bought R1 because I'd rather be without R2 than R1 if protection got tougher.

HTH

[DaveH]

Mattie,

Thanks for the reply. I guess I'll have to wait and see. I think my player does region 1 and 3. The reason it does not do 2 is because it does not output PAL. It may do a Japanese disc though.

I hope it is fine. its a SONY DVP-S7000 (before s7700) it is a hong kong machine and was not tampered and was meant to be R3.

I guess I'll just have to wait and hope.

[DaveH]

Here goes just testedthe Patriot on my DVD Hong Kong S7000.

Worked no problem. Worked fine on my brothers US S7000, of course fine.

Tried my parents Toshiba SD2109 AUTO region switcher. It would NOT play brought up the region map screen.

I have read elsewhere that auto region switching is not a factor so it might have been where they bought their player from (Leading Edge Concepts)

Any comments?

[MJ]

From what I've read the RCE is thought to work by interrogating the player twice, firstly for the region of the DVD and then another region. If the player is interrogated twice and a positive reponse ensues then one assumes it fails to play the loaded disc. Since the disc is read only the player must be fooling itself and theoretically a manually changed player should play perfectly. I have read that RCE is aimed at the far east due to pirating and not so much Europe. In IMO it's unlikely to put a stop to the uk importing of region 1.
Just hope I don't have to eat my words.

What about us poor folk with Wharfedales etc.. that you can modify with the handset..will the discs work with these or will I have to start saving for an American or switchable player?
Any info appreciated..it's taken me ages to have the money to get into dvd (having longed from afar for years - violins..) and it would be just typical to get screwed now I've arrived...