Do region 4 DVDs also work in region 2 DVD players?

Question

What about in PCs? Theres someone on eBay who makes this claim - thats why I'm asking.

Answer 1

Probably not but I bought my DVD player for £25 from Curry's and put in the special code to make it multi region and its fine with anything.

Answer 2

there are ways to unlock DVD players to make them "region free", meaning they`ll play any DVD from any region. I used to have a list somewhere...

Answer 3

Region 2 (Europe) and Region 4 (Australasia) both use the PAL encryption system. So you can buy cheap DVDs from Australia and ship them over and they'll work in our machines.

Region 1 (Japan + USA) work off the NTSC encryption system and dont work in our players.

You can buy Region 0 (Everywhere) DVD players that will play all encryptions. LG make a lot of them, and PCs tend to want to keep a particular encryptions system.

Usually, the first time you put a DVD in a PC, it'll ask you if you want to take the setting of the DVD you put in. It'll let you change the setting 5 or 6 times then lock it, but you can get programs that'll play the DVD regardless of its Region.

Answer 4

Yes (I think computers only), but you have to switch it for the pc (a message will pop up). You are only allowed a maximum of five switches before it is permanent.

There are software to make your drive region free, but that costs money.

Answer 5

yes , most dvd players can be modded to play all regions