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Blu-ray players?

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Postby Slarti » October 17th, 2019, 4:31 pm

Our DVD player has decided to give up the ghost, so it looks as is if it has to to be a blu-ray player to replace it.

I'm pretty certain that when we bought the DVD we had to have it multi-region chipped. Is this still still something that has does to be done, or it something done automatic?

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Re: Blu-ray players?

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Postby Breelander » October 17th, 2019, 4:45 pm

Slarti wrote:I'm pretty certain that when we bought the DVD we had to have it multi-region chipped. Is this still still something that has does to be done...?


Apparently so if you want to play a DVD on a Blue-ray player. It's the DVD itself that's region-coded (I don't know if Blue-rays are region-specific, but DVDs are). Any player, DVD or Blue-ray would still have to be 'chipped' (or whatever) to play a DVD from another region. You could choose a player from the brands listed here....

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Re: Blu-ray players?

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Postby servodude » October 18th, 2019, 4:25 am

Breelander wrote:
Slarti wrote:I'm pretty certain that when we bought the DVD we had to have it multi-region chipped. Is this still still something that has does to be done...?


Apparently so if you want to play a DVD on a Blue-ray player. It's the DVD itself that's region-coded (I don't know if Blue-rays are region-specific, but DVDs are). Any player, DVD or Blue-ray would still have to be 'chipped' (or whatever) to play a DVD from another region. You could choose a player from the brands listed here....

DVD Hacks aim is to be the best resource to find out how to hack your DVD, Blu-Ray or HD DVD player...
http://www.dvdhacks.co.uk/


Blu-rays are region encoded - and can be bit harder to get round than the old DVD players
- more expensive brands tend to enforce this more rigidly (especially if they had a hand in writing the rainbow books: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_Books)
- needing chipped to work would probably indicate a higher end player
- cheaper brands allow for region changes in config, including possibly hidden config (this was to facilitate production as you could use the same hardware in different regions)

The BluRay region encoding though is separate from that of DVDs; so you can have a Blu Ray player that restricts BluRay regions but not DVDs
That's a feature of them being different technologies at heart
- the servo stuff is fundamentally the same but the laser, optics and data encoding are different beasts

When I bought our current player I asked the assistant when buying it if it would work with my DVDs (predominantly kids DVDs we'd taken to Australia from the UK). I returned the first player because it proved not to work (it was a whizbang sony with wifi and netflix) and exchanged it for a much cheaper Laser (https://www.laserco.com.au/BLU-BD3000-b ... for-bdlive) with no region checking whatsoever.
Saying that though I've probably used it half a dozen times in 3 years since we got decent broadband

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