DVD Regional Zone : RCE

[Dolby]

Hi,

Thought I'd share this as it helped me and may just help one or two people in future.

I've got a multi-region DVD player than we've played Zone 1 and Zone 2 previously without issues. Yesterday, I rented a Zone 1 which my machine would not play. I didn't quite understand as previous Zone 1 DVD's had worked.

I Googled and out that Hollywood wanted to counter all the multi region players on the marketand have a new system called RCE (Regional Code Enhanced).

Basically what would happen previously is the DVD would check if you DVD player could play the corrosponding Zone, and play it. With RCE it checks whether your machine will play any other zones and if it does, it won't play.

The way I got around it is set my machine from multizone, to a Zone 1 machine, watched the DVD and then changed it back to multizone.

Just FYI

http://www.regionfreedvd.net/rce-faq.hyml

 

[Gothan]

Did you try playing it in your pc and see if dvd43 or anydvd removed the RCE? It is suppose to, so that you can rip it to hard drive and then write it to dvd

 

[Dolby]

We used the PC in the end ... so we did overcome the issue after the DVD and Xbox360 refused to play.

I was then annoyed that my R8000.00 DVD player couldn't play the disc while my girlfriends R400.00 player did and started searching for why and how.

 

[Rouxenator]

The more money you spend on a DVD player, the more you pay for stuff you don't want like region locking, format compliance and other crap.

 

[PeterCH]

The more money you spend on a DVD player, the more you pay for stuff you don't want like region locking, format compliance and other crap.

True, very true. Also the more expensive the player the quicker the laser becomes unbalanced. My SONY for example can't play CD-Rs anymore.
It also stutters with higher bitrate DVD+Rs. Slightest bit of dirt causes it
to fail on factory made DVDs. However, it is region free, for all disks, incl RCE.

 

[Rouxenator]

At last something we agree on. In most cases I try to stay way from brand names. They are over priced and buying them is looking for trouble. Long live Chinese clones !

 

[PeterCH]

At last something we agree on. In most cases I try to stay way from brand names. They are over priced and buying them is looking for trouble. Long live Chinese clones !

That depends on the aesthetics. Often something like a monitor or an amp/speakers will be better as brand name. Compare and get what looks or sounds best to you.