"playback prohibited by area limitations"

boostedpimp · 03-18-2008, 03:00 PM

Purchased a DVD from someone over in Australia and whenever I attempt to play it in any dvd players I get "playback prohibited by area limitations" but I can play it in any laptop or pc fine...

I'd like to know how I can convert it to be play-able for me? I have 1clickdvd which I used to burn my movies but it doesn't have any features to be able to convert regency codes etc so im looking for advice.

Thanks in advance

timboW · 03-18-2008, 04:39 PM

Actually, I have exactly the same problem. I'm originally from Australia, and family are always sending DVD's over either for us or the kids on birthdays and at Christmas, but we're always having to play them on the computer. Lately though I've found that they won't even play on the PC anymore and generate the same error message that the other poster mentioned.

Anyone know why the PC won't play them anymore? It was my understanding that normal DVD players had some sort of blocking mechanism built it that was triggered by special keys on the DVD itself, whereas PC DVD players weren't affected in the same fashion. Have they got around this somehow?

It's a real pain, because we now have a small stockpile of DVD's that we've never been able to watch.

sho95 · 03-19-2008, 05:35 AM

Regions are not the same. As for pc the drive can only change regions a few times only.

boostedpimp · 03-19-2008, 10:02 PM

How can one convert to the needed regional code?? I want to convert to a playable code so I can then reburn to dvd for use with a dvd play that's non pc

MrRandom · 03-19-2008, 10:10 PM

if you dont mind dropping 40$ you can use this

g25racer · 03-20-2008, 12:31 AM

Or you can use dvd fab to extract all the info from the dvd and burn it again.

boostedpimp · 03-25-2008, 08:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MrRandom

if you dont mind dropping 40$ you can use this

Balls I'd rather not since Im paying for 1click dvd right now..

Quote:

Originally Posted by g25racer

Or you can use dvd fab to extract all the info from the dvd and burn it again.

Got a link of any kind to this by chance?

Quick69GTO · 03-26-2008, 10:35 PM

http://www.regioncodefreedvd.com/
Love my Pioneer!

03-18-2008, 03:00 PM	#1 (permalink)
boostedpimp Bronze Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: New Jersey Age: 29 Posts: 49	"playback prohibited by area limitations" Purchased a DVD from someone over in Australia and whenever I attempt to play it in any dvd players I get "playback prohibited by area limitations" but I can play it in any laptop or pc fine... I'd like to know how I can convert it to be play-able for me? I have 1clickdvd which I used to burn my movies but it doesn't have any features to be able to convert regency codes etc so im looking for advice. Thanks in advance __________________ speed junkie

03-18-2008, 04:39 PM	#2 (permalink)
timboW New Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 13	Actually, I have exactly the same problem. I'm originally from Australia, and family are always sending DVD's over either for us or the kids on birthdays and at Christmas, but we're always having to play them on the computer. Lately though I've found that they won't even play on the PC anymore and generate the same error message that the other poster mentioned. Anyone know why the PC won't play them anymore? It was my understanding that normal DVD players had some sort of blocking mechanism built it that was triggered by special keys on the DVD itself, whereas PC DVD players weren't affected in the same fashion. Have they got around this somehow? It's a real pain, because we now have a small stockpile of DVD's that we've never been able to watch. Last edited by timboW; 03-18-2008 at 04:41 PM.

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boostedpimp Bronze Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: New Jersey Age: 29 Posts: 49	How can one convert to the needed regional code?? I want to convert to a playable code so I can then reburn to dvd for use with a dvd play that's non pc __________________ speed junkie

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MrRandom Silver Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: canada, eh?! Age: 16 Posts: 185	if you dont mind dropping 40$ you can use this __________________ Dell Inspiron 1501 -2 Gig RAM- -120 Gig Hard Drive- -AMD Turion 64X2- -1.8 GHz - -Windows Vista Home / UBUNTU - "Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars" - Les Brown

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g25racer Diamond Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 3,583	Or you can use dvd fab to extract all the info from the dvd and burn it again. __________________ CPU - AMD Athlon 64x2 5200+ @ 2.6ghz Ram - 2GB Stock clock HD - 320gb seagate & Samsung 750gb 32mb cache GPU - XFX 8600GT XXX Zalman @ 680 or 700mhz PSU - Ultra X-finity 600watt OS - Vista Home Premium(32) & XP Pro and Vista Audio - JVC 460watts Control - Logitech G25 Wheel & Logitech Rumblepad 2 Games - GTR2 and LFS -- Race Sim's for Life --

03-19-2008, 05:35 AM	#3 (permalink)
sho95 Gold Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 385	Regions are not the same. As for pc the drive can only change regions a few times only.

03-26-2008, 10:35 PM	#8 (permalink)
Quick69GTO Silver Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 204	http://www.regioncodefreedvd.com/ Love my Pioneer!

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