Region Zero PAL discs

[Musica]

Hi
I posted this query in Newbie discussions but now I wonder if it should have been entered here -

A TV music series I want to buy - 'How Music Works' - is only issued by the programme maker and costs £40 (!)

I trust the company releasing the DVDs but their email, when quoting the title and price said 'The DVDs are Region Zero PAL discs and should be able to be played on any multi-standard DVD player'.

My player/recorder is a Panasonic DMR - EX75 and I can't find anything in the handbook that suggests it will play the DVDs I want to order ... and £40 is a lot of money to spend and find they won't play!
If anyone else has a DMR-EX75 they may know the answer and any advice would be great!
Thanks
Terri

[pompoi]

Think they mean region free.

Region code Area
0 Informal term meaning "worldwide". Region 0 is not an official setting; discs that bear the region 0 symbol either have no flag set or have region 1–6 flags set.
1 North America; U.S. territories; Bermuda
2 Europe; Western Asia; Kingdom of the Netherlands; Egypt, Japan, Lesotho, South Africa, Swaziland; British overseas territories, French overseas territories; Greenland
3 East and Southeast Asia
4 Oceania; Central and South America; Caribbean; Mexico
5 Africa, Central and South Asia, Belarus, India, Mongolia, North Korea, Russia, Ukraine
6 Mainland China
7 Reserved for future use (found in use on protected screener copies of MPAA-related DVDs and "media copies" of pre-releases in Asia)
8 International venues such as aircraft, cruise ships, etc.[1]
ALL Region ALL discs have all 8 flags set, allowing the disc to be played in any locale on any player.

[Krispy Kritter]

Depending on your player, it may work or it may not (most likely it will), the only way to know for sure is to try it. Any reputable company will offer a money back guarantee, but you will likely be out a few bucks for shipping.

[jman98]

Krispy Kritter is right. Most likely it will work. I have a DVD player from some years ago that has been hacked to region free mode and for some reason it had problems with region 0 PAL DVDs, but if the DVD was PAL and had any region coding on it, it was OK. This player was sold in the USA and is not in production any more. I just say that to illustrate that it is possible to have problems, but it is unlikely that you will since you live in the UK.

[dphirschler]

I'd be more concerned about whether or not your player can play PAL discs than the region. Most newer players play PAL discs easily. And if the region gives you a headache, you might be able to hack your player to be region-free. At the worst, you could copy them on your PC to region-free discs. But you need a player that can play PAL.


Darryl

[DB83]

Your player/recorder is targeted for the UK? for normal playback it is for Region 2 - PAL.

But take a closer look at any disks that you have recorded yourself on it and these should read as region 1,2,3,4,5,6,All.

In other words, a disk labelled Region 0 (ie All) should work perfectly fine.

[Noahtuck]

Hi
I posted this query in Newbie discussions but now I wonder if it should have been entered here -

Yep, and it was pretty much answered by hech54

[Bix]

Region Zero/0 IS region free.

If you can play PAL discs, you're fine. If you can't, then get a cheap player that can convert PAL discs to NTSC.

[Musica]

Thanks everyone for your help, and thanks moderator for the reminder - I'm pretty much new to forum use and didn't take on board the warning re not posting on two forums. It won't happen again.
Meanwhile I think my question was pretty much answered. Cheers!