DVDs are region protected, as well as having a pal video signal
instead of an NTSC signal (this was the issue with VHS regions).
Unless you have a region-free player, DVDs you purchased from the UK
will not play in a US DVD player or drive. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD_region_codes
for more detail.
There is currently no way to make any of the DVD drives in Intel Macs
be region-free, as they have a hardware region protection, and it is
not possible to flash their firmware to remove it. You can change this
region up to five times, but then it will be locked forever. You will
either need an external, region-free DVD drive or to replace the
internal drive with one that can be made region-free. As the RPC is
completely in the firmware of the drive, rather than in the PC
software, even programs such as VLC or MacTheRipper cannot get around
it as they usually can.
On Dec 15, 2008, at 04:27, Simon Cavendish wrote:
Dear Max,
No, I'm afraid I did not search the American site. Give it a go
though. As forp urchasing, you should be able to buy from the
British site but I'm not sure about extra costs. I'm not familiar
with various dvd systems either. I know there was a difference
between American and British system in VCR but I have no idea about
dvd's. Sorry can't be more helpful.
Best wishes
Simon
On 15 Dec 2008, at 07:33, Maxwell Ivey Jr. wrote:
Hi Simon; Did you happen to do a similar search for the u s
version of amazon? Any idea if they would let us yanks buy from
there, and would we be able to play them here if we did? Thanks
for the work, Max
On Dec 15, 2008, at 12:33 AM, Simon Cavendish wrote:
In case people do not know, on amazon.co.uk website, under the dvd
section, there is a separate section listing all the avilable
dvd's with audio description - over 300 of them.
I found it difficult to locate that section so I executed a search
where in the search box I put "audio description dvd", and I was
taken to those pages. I hate buying on amazon - the site being so
big and cluttered - but I congratulate them on creating a special
section of audio described dvd's.
With best wishes to all, Simon
Max Ivey Jr.
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