Problems playing a multi -region DVD

past

I have a Sony DVD player/recorder. RDR-HXD560

I recently bought a DVD. Format PAL on DVD -R. Multi-region '0' (free)

My Sony says ' This disk cannot be played'

My player is set up for PAL so thats OK

Can anyone help please? Maybe my player needs a hack ?:eek:

rmg1

This might work, but it looks like you'll need a second remote.
https://www.avforums.com/threads/sony-rdr-hxd560-multi-region-hack.489222/

Quiet_Spark

past wrote: »

I have a Sony DVD player/recorder. RDR-HXD560

I recently bought a DVD. Format PAL on DVD -R. Multi-region '0' (free)

My Sony says ' This disk cannot be played'

My player is set up for PAL so thats OK

Can anyone help please? Maybe my player needs a hack ?:eek:

Sounds like the movie was recorded on crap media which the Sony doesn't like.

Nilrem

Quiet_Spark wrote: »

Sounds like the movie was recorded on crap media which the Sony doesn't like.

Yup, DVD-R is a recordable media (home burns, very rarely if ever used for commercial disks*).

Either the player cannot read DVD-R discs at all, or as you say it's poor media.


*I can only think of a few small distributors that ever used them to do "burn on demand" releases.

Big_Graeme

Opps looks like you've bought a duff disk, if you are lucky you bought if from a store and not dodgy Tony down the market.

Quiet_Spark

Big_Graeme wrote: »

Opps looks like you've bought a duff disk, if you are lucky you bought if from a store and not dodgy Tony down the market.

Do you have many retail stores in your neck of the woods that sell movies on DVD-R ?

past

Its a company that supplies copies of TV films on licence which were never produced for the comercial market. Thus the use of a DV-RW.This disc plays fine on my mates player ?

past

Its a company that supplies copies of TV films on licence which were never produced for the comercial market. Thus the use of a DV-RW.This disc plays fine on my mates player ? Bought on the internet. Reputable site

Big_Graeme

Quiet_Spark wrote: »

Do you have many retail stores in your neck of the woods that sell movies on DVD-R ?

Aye but they are all painted black and have a few X's on the outside :rotfl:

Big_Graeme

past wrote: »

Its a company that supplies copies of TV films on licence which were never produced for the comercial market. Thus the use of a DV-RW.This disc plays fine on my mates player ? Bought on the internet. Reputable site

Ah, you said DVD-R, not DVD-RW, there are loads of compatibility issues with DVD-RW's and top make players way more than there is with DVD-R's. I've a top make player here won't touch DVD-R+ or RW's, yet the cheapo 10 year old Cyberhome will play anything I chuck at it.

I'd say your Sony is being picky.

Quiet_Spark

Big_Graeme wrote: »

I'd say your Sony is being picky.

Don't know about now, but they were making their DVD players that way on purpose back in the early 2000's in an attempt to slow piracy.
It got to the stage they were tweaking them so much that a lot of standard movie discs wouldn't work either.
It didn't help them at all in the end which was a shame as their early equipment (eg, 80's and very early 90's) had a good name, but the modern day Sony stuff is cheap crap and isn't worth two bob IMHO.