Hi guys. I'm in Australia (Region 4). Next Monday I have to conduct an
adult education class on film history and I want to play brief excerpts
from various feature movies which I have on commercial DVDs from various
Regions (1, 2, and 4). The technician tells me that there are two
DVD-players available: Panasonic NV-VP33 and NV-VP60. He says that one
of these is Region 4 and the other is 'no Region' (I'm not exactly sure
what the latter is - it's not the same as 'multi-Region', is it?). Will
the 'no Region' machine be able to handle all of my discs? Does someone
have a code we could enter in the machine to make it play all of my discs?

There's a time-consuming partial alternative. I have the software to
copy the various discs onto Region-free discs. But I'm not sure that
the Panasonic machine will then play such 'home-made' copies of feature
films.

Can anybody advise on any of these matters?


Thanks - Ken (in Oz)

P.S. I may cross-post this request for help on one or two other groups.
I hope that doesn't offend anyone but I'm racing against time for
any help I can get.

"Ken" <muffin (AT) labyrinth (DOT) net.au> wrote

As far as I am aware most, if not all DVD players sold in Australia are
region free.
No region and multi region is the same thing.

If you can not try the players before hand, extract the original disks with
DVD Decryptor and shrink with DVD Shrink, DVD Decryptor will get rid of the
region coding, if you tell it to do that in the preferences.

Regards,

Martin

Martin van derPoel wrote:

Ken here again. Thanks so much for your post in response to mine,
Martin. If 'no-Region' = 'multi-Region', that gives me hope.

As for copying of my commercial discs and making them Region-free, I
have the software to do that. My concern is that the resultant
'home-made' discs will not play on the Panasonic machine/s - I read
somewhere that they have something called 'macrovision' (whatever that
is) and that they don't play copied films.

- Ken (in Oz)

"Ken" <muffin (AT) labyrinth (DOT) net.au> wrote

Decryptor will strip any macrovision of it.
As far as I know macrovision is only effective when you try to copy a
Marrovision protected DVD to video tape, and then only on the VHS variety,
the standard8 and Hi8 variety is unaffected by the macrovision.

Good luck

Martin