DVD Wrong region

jacnorm

I have just got a dvd for my grandchildren and when I try to play it I get a message saying wrong regional disk. I have no idea what this is can anyone advise please?

macman

DVD's are region coded, you are probably using a US region disk in a Europe region player. As advised you need to unlock the DVD player to use it.

aliasojo

The UK dvd players plays region 2 disks as standard. If the disk is any other region, then some dvd players will not play them. A lot of dvd players these days are region free and will play anything, others you can 'hack' to make them region free.

What region is the disk? Did you buy it online? Disks sold here in the UK are region 2. How old is the dvd player and what make/model is it? Maybe someone here will know how to make it region free so you can play the disk.

See here for more info..http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD_region_code

jacnorm

Its a goodmans player where do I find the model number, and thanks for the quick reply.

aliasojo

Is there a sticker on the back or on the base?

Edinburghlass_2

Article and discussion thread here...

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=763625

and if you put in unlock dvd player into "search this forum" it will come up with a fair selection of threads.

http://www.videohelp.com/dvdhacks

aliasojo

Help here too (if it hasn't already been mentioned in the other thread)....http://www.dvd.reviewer.co.uk/forums/?Forum=176&Index=63438&Type=1

Sput2001

If it's just an ordinary Goodmans DVD player, the model number is a series of letters and digits that probably begins "GDVD..."

If you give us that model number in full, we should be able to get instructions on how to remove the region lock.

jacnorm

Its GDVD 121 and thankyou all for your help

jacnorm

aliasojo wrote: »

Help here too (if it hasn't already been mentioned in the other thread)....http://www.dvd.reviewer.co.uk/forums/?Forum=176&Index=63438&Type=1

Thankyou so much found the code on there now the kids are watching their film :T

aliasojo

Glad you got it sorted.