John Gumbs asked the Answer Line forum why you can only change a DVD drive’s region a limited number of times. Because that’s the way the Hollywood studios want it. They like to control how their ...

Is it possible to run a second (external) DVD drive for playing back DVDs from a different region? My daughter lives in the US, and uses her laptop's internal drive to play Region 1 discs, but she ...

Have a question about DVD region codes. I'm looking at some DVD's sold in England on ebay and they say you have to make sure the DVD region code on the DVD's they're selling matches the accepted DVD ...

One day, I saw that it could not read the DVD disk, however, it read CDs till now. From the ‘DVD Region’ in the ‘Properties’ of the DVD-ROM drive, I found that the current region shows Region 1, but ...

Why won't Sony reveal whether its players are region-free? Region-coding has been a controversial issue for many years. It's the practice of locking down movies and games so you can only play certain ...

October 20, 2005 - A new DVD Region Free product dubbed 'ZONE FREE DVD for PS2' is launching this week at www.zfdvd.com Zone Free DVD is a Playstation2 DVD disc which removes the region coding from ...

Shopping for a region-free DVD or Blu-ray player? Don't expect to get a straight answer. Over Christmas I decided to upgrade my old Sony Blu-ray player to a new model with built-in Catch Up TV, ...

PS2 owners can now turn their console into a multi-region DVD player for the price of a magazine. Datel informs us that this month's PSi-2 magazine (issue 18) ships with a copy of its vaunted DVD ...

DVD movies and players are coded to keep sales revenues in their respective regions as well as to ensure DVDs can be released without conflict. For example, if there were no restrictions, a DVD movie ...