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DVD Codes

Overman

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Will an R4 DVD work in my Xbox360?

I could not find an answer anywhere on the net!

Thanks,

Overman
 
Overman said:
Will an R4 DVD work in my Xbox360?
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The answer is: only if you bought it in R4. (Are there R4 Xboxes yet?)

From Microsoft's painfully stupid tech support:

DVD Region Code Error
When you attempt to view a DVD movie from a region that is incompatible with the Xbox 360 console, you'll see the error message "Can't play DVD. Wrong region code."
Xbox 360 consoles are configured to play DVDs that are coded for the region for which the console was originally manufactured. You can only play DVDs from this region or DVDs that do not have the region coded (some may say "all regions"). Global DVD regions are:
Region 1: United States, U.S. territories, and Canada
Region 2: Europe, Japan, the Middle East, Egypt, South Africa, and Greenland
Region 3: Taiwan, Korea, Philippines, Indonesia, Hong Kong, and Singapore
Region 4: Mexico, South and Central America, Australia, New Zealand, Pacific Islands, and the Caribbean
Region 5: Russia, Eastern Europe, India, Africa excluding South Africa, North Korea, and Mongolia
Region 6: China
To check a DVD's region coding:
Determine the DVD region for your Xbox 360 console. This information is on the Xbox 360 console packaging.
Find the region information on the box or wrapper for your DVD.

If the two regions do not match, the DVD will not play on your console. If the two regions match and you receive the error message, the console may need to be serviced.
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So if it's not R4 Xbox, it's not going to play R4 movies. Welcome to Microsoft; Where are we Going to Force you to go Today(tm)?

Seriously, DRM is bullplop, region encoding is bullplop. Microsoft, being a giant generator of bullplop, you'd expect to be a bull. But they aren't... in what can only be an example of spontaneous generation, they are also bullplop.

I fully support your right to hack your own hardware.

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-Chris
 
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That is bullcrap.

Thanks for the info...I had suspected it would turn out like this.

:mad:
 
For the record, creating a copy of the DVD that is bit-for-bit perfect but without the region code or the CSS is a very simple process. But I'm not sure if I'm allowed to talk about it here thanks to another peice of bullplop, the DMCA. That's if the DVD is a movie and not a game. If the DVD is for a game, it's not quite as trivial, but not out of the question to modify your Xbox so the discs aren't checked. All the work of figuring out how is already done; you'd just have to follow the instructions.
 
Published and be damned!

On a Mac, you download a free program called Mac The Ripper, and rip your DVD to your hard drive. You can choose to omit foreign subtitles, trailers, bonus material and other such stuff. You can then burn the resultant files to a disc with Roxio Toast. Works a treat...
 
bruto said:
Doesn't it seem preposterous that Mexico should be bundled with New Zealand and Australia instead of being counted as part of North America?
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It's so that the Americans won't buy cheap DVD's from Mexico.

And yes, it is preposterous.
 
Ian Osborne said:
Published and be damned!

On a Mac, you download a free program called Mac The Ripper, and rip your DVD to your hard drive. You can choose to omit foreign subtitles, trailers, bonus material and other such stuff. You can then burn the resultant files to a disc with Roxio Toast. Works a treat...
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For a PC look for 'DVD Shrink'. It can do all that and assuming you already have a DVD burning program(and a DVD burner) it makes the copy too.
 
bruto said:
Doesn't it seem preposterous that Mexico should be bundled with New Zealand and Australia instead of being counted as part of North America?
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The 'release' reason is a lie. It's all to do with pricing variation, IHMO. They want to be able to charge different prices in different markets, otherwise you can just buy them cheaper over the internet, or graymarket importers will do the job for you.
 
a_unique_person said:
The 'release' reason is a lie. It's all to do with pricing variation, IHMO. They want to be able to charge different prices in different markets, otherwise you can just buy them cheaper over the internet, or graymarket importers will do the job for you.
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I agree, lies and bullplop.
I guess everyone knows that most (all?) DVD players can easily be made into multi-region ones by re-programming them via the remote control. The instructions for particular models are readily available on the 'net.
 
69dodge said:
Devil's advocate: It allows them to charge Mexicans less for DVDs. So, more Mexicans will be able to buy DVDs.
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Angels advocate: why are DVD's different from any other commodity? They don't make pens and cans of soup, hammers and light bulbs cross-border incompatible to "allow" them to be sold at prevailing market prices to Mexicans. It's to disallow Mexicans and visitors to Mexico the option of bringing DVD's here after purchase.
 
Ryokan said:
It's so that the Americans won't buy cheap DVD's from Mexico.

And yes, it is preposterous.
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What makes it really preposterous is that a great deal of official Region 1 DVDs are manufactured in .... MEXICO. :dl:
 
69dodge said:
Devil's advocate: It allows them to charge Mexicans less for DVDs. So, more Mexicans will be able to buy DVDs.
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I'm sure that if they charge Americans less, more Americans will buy more DVDs too.

I suppose what they're after is the fine balance between number of buyers and price that will get them more money, no matter what market we're talking about.
 
El Greco said:
I suppose what they're after is the fine balance between number of buyers and price that will get them more money, no matter what market we're talking about.
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Well duh, these are for-profit companies we're talking about. They just happen to be big enough that they can get away with this crap.
 
elgarak said:
What makes it really preposterous is that a great deal of official Region 1 DVDs are manufactured in .... MEXICO.
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Yup, they exploit the global marketplace to keep costs as low as possible, but take pro-active measures to stop consumers doing exactly the same thing. And then they put out self-satisfied adverts about how wicked and immoral it is to pirate DVDs...
 
cyborg said:
Well duh, these are for-profit companies we're talking about. They just happen to be big enough that they can get away with this crap.
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Apparently. Since region codes restrict free market and the companies should be forced to abolish them. Fortunately there are a few countries where region-locked DVD players are not allowed.
 
But if the different prices are the goal, then why force europeans to wait for region 2 releases, US and the EU should be able to pay the same prices. (I couldnt find the hack for my DVD-player on the net)
 
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