Code to allow DVD use on all regions

[eaglet]

Hi,
New to this site hence me using this forum with my question. Inadvertantly I bought a couple of DVD's which were region 1, not 2, before I left the UK for Spain. On arrival I found that my original player broken. I've just bought a Sivercrest KH 6779 from Lidl's but need to reconfigure my DVD for all regions. Can anyone please help????
Cheers eaglet

[hech54]

You should have searched for a player that you can reconfigure BEFORE you bought a new player.
Not all players can be reconfigured or hacked region free/all region.

[jman98]

It's getting more difficult all the time to find DVD players that can be made region free. Hollywood has somehow apparently convinced almost all the manufacturers to stop making players that can be made region free. This is pure insanity because it will surely lead to more piracy since people will no longer have the option of buying DVDs outside of their region, but somehow Hollywood is convinced that refusing to allow people to change the region coding on their players is a good thing. Philips used to make DVD players that could easily be put into multi-region mode, but I'm not sure if they make any such players now.

Anyway, you might consider ripping the DVDs to your hard drive and re-burning them. Ripping will remove the region coding. As long as your DVD player can do something with NTSC TV signals that your TV will accept (the odds are very good you'll be OK here since you live in Europe) this is an option. We have some guides on ripping and burning that might be of use to you. Usually European TVs and DVD players can display NTSC signals correctly, so there probably is no need for you to convert the DVDs from NTSC for PAL.