DVD Regions "jj[ at ]j.com" <jj[ at ]j.com> 13.07.2007 00:34:59 I bought a new computer a friend told me that I have to be careful with playing non-Region 1 DVDs (I'm in the United States). He said that the DVD can be put into a mode where I won't be able to play Region 1 media. I found the "DVD Region" under the DVD properties and it indicates Changes Remaining: 4 and the Current Region is set to 1. Is there a way I can force it to Region 1 permanently? I tried inserting this one DVD but the count doesn't decrease. TIA

Re: DVD Regions Ghostrider <-00-[ at ]fitron.142> 13.07.2007 00:46:28 jj[ at ]j.com wrote: [Quoted Text] > I bought a new computer a friend told me that I have > to be careful with playing non-Region 1 DVDs (I'm in > the United States). He said that the DVD can be > put into a mode where I won't be able to play Region 1 > media. > > I found the "DVD Region" under the DVD properties and > it indicates Changes Remaining: 4 and the Current Region > is set to 1. > > Is there a way I can force it to Region 1 permanently? > I tried inserting this one DVD but the count doesn't > decrease. > > TIA AFAIK, the DVD region must be manually changed by the user. A DVD from a different region cannot change the defaulted DVD region automatically. A DVD from a region other than the one set in the player would not play or properly decode.

Re: DVD Regions "Brian A." <gonefish'n[ at ]afarawaylake> 13.07.2007 22:39:41 <jj[ at ]j.com> wrote in message news:4696C8B3.4000604[ at ]j.com... [Quoted Text] >I bought a new computer a friend told me that I have > to be careful with playing non-Region 1 DVDs (I'm in > the United States). He said that the DVD can be > put into a mode where I won't be able to play Region 1 > media. > > I found the "DVD Region" under the DVD properties and > it indicates Changes Remaining: 4 and the Current Region > is set to 1. > > Is there a way I can force it to Region 1 permanently? > I tried inserting this one DVD but the count doesn't > decrease. The region will not change from 1 to any other unless the user changes to another region. The count of region changes remaining will also remain the same unless the user changes to another region. Each time the user changes the region the remaining changes count will drop 1 for each change. When the count gets to 0 (zero) changes remaining the user will not be able to change the region anymore and the last region chosen will be the one the user is stuck with. > > TIA -- Brian A. Sesko { MS MVP_Shell/User } Conflicts start where information lacks. http://basconotw.mvps.org/ Suggested posting do's/don'ts: http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375