DVD regions

[emma_landray]

Not sure if this is the right place.

Does anyone know, if you have a region 2 dvd can you play region 0 dvds on it? or do you have to have it chipped or something?

[tomd]

Region 0 is region free, so any DVD player will play a region 0 dvd, and a region 0 player will play any dvd.

[emma_landray]

Thank you very much.

[Marchant]

You may find this of some use

http://www.dvdexploder.com/

[Loosehead]

You can usually hack your player so that it's play any region. Tomd is correct about Reg 0. However there are Reg1 dvd's from the states and other regions from the far east etc that you player will not play, usually there is a hack though, just find your player here and obey the instructions:

http://www.videohelp.com/dvdhacks

[flowerdebbie]

does anybody know of any dvd decodes for pc because mine dvds dont work on pc

[tomd]

If you've got a DVD drive on a computer, it should play any region DVD - you'll need some extra software to play DVDs though.

The smoothest running one I've found is VLC Media Player - you can download this free here.