I put a Region 1 DVD in my player a few weeks back and changed the region from 1 to 2. I then put a region 2 DVD in yesterday and the box popped up to change the region. It states that this is the last time I can change the region but when i click 'set drive region' it just quits. Anyone know why? It says it's the last time I can change it so it can't be that I've already changed it 5 times. Why is it quitting?
MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Region encoding is the mechanism that enables motion picture studios to control the worldwide release of their movies. It is required by the DVD Forum (http://www.dvdforum.org/forum.shtml) in all commercial hardware DVD players. Every DVD-Video disc contains one byte of data representing a region code, which limits where the disc can be played.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2397
Once you have set the region in DVD Player five times it cannot be changed. However see tis also:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TA25416?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
Instead, use VLC to view videos from different regions:
Region encoding is the mechanism that enables motion picture studios to control the worldwide release of their movies.
A failed scheme in my view. Every DVD or Blu-ray player I have purchased in the last 10 years is multi-region. They will play anything. In fact, the studios region coding promotes piracy. Interestingly, the now obsolete HD disk format (that lost out to Blu-ray), completely did away with region coding altogether because they recognized it was harmful to studios and consumers alike.
Wow, thanks for that. A piece of completely useless information that in no way answered my question. Nice waste of time.
Right, you've said about the 5 times thing even though i've clearly stated that it said I had one change left. Also, I know about VLC player, and I have it but that doesn't work for me.
I do wonder why people feel the need to reply with anything other than a helpful answer.
jennib83 wrote:
I do wonder why people feel the need to reply with anything other than a helpful answer.
I do wonder why posters can be so rude to those who are trying to help.
Expect no further assistance here - particularly as you are in completely the wrong forum. Your question has nothing to do with the iDVD application.
How on earth can you say you were helping? Nothing in your post helped me. It clearly didn't answer my question and stated something that I already knew, as evident in my original post.
As for putting this in the iDVD section, I selected macbook, and that was it. Clearly it was put in that section automatically due to the title.
Also, 'further assistance'? Considering you didn't assist me in the first place, 'further' would be pushing it.
As it is, I figured it out myself by putting a DVD in the player that was only region 2 and not regions 2/4 and changed it that way.
yes, it did. It most precisely concerned the DVD-Player's lack of being able to set a region when the DVD in question had been issued for several regions at the same time (2 and 4 in this case). DVD-Player as in the heir to iDVD. You may now apologise to the OP.
Yes you are.
to ziatron: The player has nothing to do with the DVD region: the region is coded on the DVD NOT the dvd player. Players can play all when the region code is correct for the region where the dvd is. It has to do with the media rights not the player.
Trying to change the DVD region but app quits
