possibly OT: players reject region 0 DVD

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One of my recent SACD purchases included a bonus region 0 "making of" DVD. A
Sony BD player and DVD player both rejected the disk, on the basis of region
incompatibility.

This is decidedly odd, as region 0 disks are supposed to play on any player.
(Right?)

What am I missing?

Please don't turn this simple question into a tsimmes or megillah. Thanks.

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questions." -- Edwin Land
 
"William Sommerwerck" <grizzledgeezer@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:ii16ip$qcb$2@news.eternal-september.org...
One of my recent SACD purchases included a bonus region 0 "making of" DVD.
A
Sony BD player and DVD player both rejected the disk, on the basis of
region
incompatibility.

This is decidedly odd, as region 0 disks are supposed to play on any
player.
(Right?)

What am I missing?

Please don't turn this simple question into a tsimmes or megillah. Thanks.

--
"We already know the answers -- we just haven't asked the right
questions." -- Edwin Land
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"Region 0", if truly so, should be region - *less*, and as you say, any
player should handle them without issue. I have several demo and test discs
which are region 0 designated, and I have never found a player that refused
them in the course of my daily repair activities. Why yours should reject
them, is a mystery ...

Arfa
 
"Region 0", if truly so, should be region -- *less*, and as
you say, any player should handle them without issue.
I have several demo and test discs which are region 0
designated, and I have never found a player that refused
them in the course of my daily repair activities. Why
yours should reject them, is a mystery ...
Click to expand...
I'll contact Sony and Alia Vox. Maybe Jordi Savall will drop by to check.
(heh, heh, heh...)
 
Maybe the disc isn't detected as 0. Stick it in a PC DVD
player and use DVD Identifier to see what region info the
disc actually gives.
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Thank you! I didn't know how to do that.

---------------

I still don't.

I inserted the disk, and it auto-ran without prompting for a region,
suggesting that the region was zero (that is, no specified region). I
couldn't find anything in the Roxio applet to identify the region.

Runs fine on a 10-year-old computer, by the way.


Did the BD or DVD player give you a more-specific error?
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The standalone DVD player which said specifically that the region was
unacceptable.


Most allow a change of region up to 4 times.
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My Plextor PX-708A was bought primarily to burn CDs. I've never played a DVD
in it, so I've never had to select a region. (I think it allows three
changes.)

By the way, Sony has already responded, and as you might guess, the answer
had nothing whatever to do with the question.
 
On Sat, 29 Jan 2011 09:26:34 -0800, William Sommerwerck wrote:

"Region 0", if truly so, should be region -- *less*, and as you say,
any player should handle them without issue. I have several demo and
test discs which are region 0 designated, and I have never found a
player that refused them in the course of my daily repair activities.
Why yours should reject them, is a mystery ...

I'll contact Sony and Alia Vox. Maybe Jordi Savall will drop by to
check. (heh, heh, heh...)
Click to expand...
Maybe the disc isn't detected as 0. Stick it in a PC dvd player and use
DVD Identifier to see what region info the disc actually gives.

Did the BD of DVD player give you a more specific error? Most allow a
change of region up to 4 times. Well I know a PC DVD drives allows this.



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"William Sommerwerck" <grizzledgeezer@comcast.net> wrote in
news:ii22t2$1vk$2@news.eternal-september.org:

Maybe the disc isn't detected as 0. Stick it in a PC DVD
player and use DVD Identifier to see what region info the
disc actually gives.

Thank you! I didn't know how to do that.

---------------

I still don't.

I inserted the disk, and it auto-ran without prompting for a region,
suggesting that the region was zero (that is, no specified region). I
couldn't find anything in the Roxio applet to identify the region.

Runs fine on a 10-year-old computer, by the way.


Did the BD or DVD player give you a more-specific error?

The standalone DVD player which said specifically that the region was
unacceptable.


Most allow a change of region up to 4 times.

My Plextor PX-708A was bought primarily to burn CDs. I've never played
a DVD in it, so I've never had to select a region. (I think it allows
three changes.)

By the way, Sony has already responded, and as you might guess, the
answer had nothing whatever to do with the question.
Click to expand...
Now that you have the computer playing movies is a great time to dump all
the DVD nonsense, learn how to download, decode and assemble the
thousands and thousands of movies posted to alt.binaries.movies.divx,
right here on usenet, every day. Does the big TV have a 3-row
"computer" input to plug the old computer into?

None of the DivX/XviD movies on alt.binaries.movies.divx have
restrictions on them, except when some jerk posts passworded RAR file
sets. Every movie of the 2010 Academy Awards and LOTS of them that
should have been nominated are posted to that newsgroup, continuously.

You're gonna need more Terabytes....(c;]

BTW, the finest movie of 2010, "Majesty" from the Netherlands is posted
there, in Dutch with hard-coded English subtitles. I think it beats "The
King's Speech" by miles. If your interested in learning how, it's easy
with a few low cost or free programs for any Windows box.

I bet I can't rent Majesty, in English or Dutch or Urdu in
America....pity.

Did I mention you're gonna need more Terabytes?
 
Now that you have the computer playing movies is a great time
to dump all the DVD nonsense, learn how to download, decode
and assemble the thousands and thousands of movies posted
to alt.binaries.movies.divx, right here on usenet, every day. Does
the big TV have a 3-row "computer" input to plug the old computer
into?
Click to expand...
The "big TV" is a 60" KURO, and I rarely play anything other than Blu-rays
on it. DVDs are largely reserved for my 36" flat-face CRT Sony IDTV in the
bedroom.
 
William Sommerwerck wrote:
One of my recent SACD purchases included a bonus region 0 "making of" DVD. A
Sony BD player and DVD player both rejected the disk, on the basis of region
incompatibility.

This is decidedly odd, as region 0 disks are supposed to play on any player.
(Right?)

What am I missing?

Please don't turn this simple question into a tsimmes or megillah. Thanks.
Click to expand...
It's because the disk wasn't finalized you need to put in in your
computer's DVD-RW drive and finalize it
 
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