"Non-Code A movies, how do you watch them?" Topic

There seems to be a lot of great films coming out of Europe. Most are not viewable on American (Code A) DVD and Blue Ray players. So what do folks do in order to to watch these? Is there an APP or do you by a different DVD player? Suggestions?

Just purchased a Philips all area player to watch a lot of Acorn DVDs. Ran less than $75 USD on Amason. No hassle installation , you do need 2-3 USB ports on your TV( ours is an older one, with only one port for the Cable box, and we switcth off and on )

Do you mean multiple HDMI ports?

If your TV only has one HDMI port, you can also get an HDMI switcher box.

There are generally called multi-region, code free, zone free, or region free players. There's a decent basic introduction here link that shows how completely crazy the system is. It's essentially a private copyright system created by the media companies.

Have had a multi-region multi-format DVD player for years, the price for the basic models dropped down from c.$200 to c.$40 when blu-ray came out.

I think that ashauace6970 means hdmi ports not usb.

But he correct about the ease of use and the price of basic units.

I've never sprung for one but more expensive BluRay units or combo dvd/bluray ones can also be gotten on Amazon and else ware.

If your computer(s) have a hdmi output and a DVD or BluRay drive you can use software to avoid the region code problem.
Of course if you have no hdmi out you can watch on the computers monitor.

I use Slysoft's AnyDVD HD to watch B & C BluRays. It works well but is more expensive now than when I bought it about 10 years ago.

Would you go Blue Ray or DVD? I keep seeing all these great looking WWII movies, are there enough released in Blue Ray?

thanks
Duane

You can play DVD on Blu Ray but you can not play Blu Ray discs in a DVD player.

Matthew

Most blurays are not region coded (some are check online before ordering a bluray from europe/america.

Also there is no problem finding bluray players that are region free for their dvds.

You can sometimes use software hacks to set your DVD player regionless as well. And by software hacks I don't mean anything fancy -- it's more like press and hold down a certain button combination. Just start googling your brand/model.

Got an old laptop? Most can be switched between regions, but only a few times.

>Would you go Blue Ray or DVD? I keep seeing all these great >looking WWII movies, are there enough released in Blue Ray?

If I had to stick with one format it would be DVD, just much more available. That said I almost always get a BluRay over a DVD if available.

>Got an old laptop? Most can be switched between regions, but only a few times.

True, the code gets frozen on the fifth change.

If Possible be sure that the DVD controller has buttons for changing the audio track and the subtitle language. It helps to avoid trying to interpret Sanskrit menus. All of the Phillips players I have or had have those buttons.

Use the words "PAL NTSC conversion" along with DVD player no region code or what ever you were going to use to search with.

Blu-ray player. As Matthew says, if you buy one, you can also play DVDs, so why would you exclude yourself?

Most new content comes out on Blu-ray and DVD (or both are packaged together), so it's generally worth it.

Most importantly, DVDs can only support 720p resolution. That means that you can't get use the full grandeur of your 1080p (Full HD) TV. Even if you don't have a 1080p TV now, you will in the future (well, unless you're really space-limited. Your next TV might well be UHD (4K or 2160p), since we keep driving the price down.

Yep HDMI is what you need