Tv Will Not Play Dvd

[Meadoway]

Have just purchased a DVD but tv says it cannot play it. and to check the region code on the disc. There does not appear to be a code on the disc

Have I been sold a dud?

Les

[CrapAtCryptics]

Have you tried it on a computer

[jno]

is it the TV that plays the DVD or a DVD player?

The short answer is maybe there's a region problem, but if you bought it in Britain it should play in Britain. If it doesn't, yes it may be a dud.

[237SJ]

It might be a bootleg disc that someone has bought overseas so unless you have a multi region player, it won't play.

[Buenchico]

The region code should be shown like one of these:
https://www.unifiedmanufacturing.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Screen-Shot-2016-09-22-at-6.23.22-PM-1036x642.png

In the UK you need to have Region 2.

[Meadoway]

Many thanks to those who answered
It seems bought one to be played in USA

[ToraToraTora]

you should be able to hack it to any region:
http://www.dvdhacks.co.uk/

[jennyjoan]

yes mine was an American dvd - Postcards from the Edge. Wouldn't work.

[ToraToraTora]

most of them have a hack, see my link.

[Buenchico]

TTT:
The days of being able to hack video players to multi-region have long since gone.

At one time the manufacturers of DVD players made them all 'multi-region' to start with and then only added the region coding on at the end. It was a fairly simple task to remove that coding, leaving you with a player that could handle discs from all over the world.

However that was costing the film distribution companies billions of dollars every year, with people purchasing DVDs from outside of their own local regions. So they took legal action to force manufacturers (under the terms of their licences to produce DVD players) to make their players with a specific region code built into them from the start of the manufacturing process (with no way of hacking such players to become multi-region). So there have been no hacks available for players manufactured within the past decade or more.

[237SJ]

I don't know about nowadays but you never used to be able to hack Sony. If you had a Sony player, you had to them to chip it for a cost.

[ToraToraTora]

fair enough, TBF I haven't played a DVD for years so I'm a bit behind (or ahead) the times!

[237SJ]

All DVD players leave the factory as multi regional and the regions are set to whichever country they go to be sold. You can still hack them back to multi region (factory settings)

[Old_Geezer]

"However that was costing the film distribution companies billions of dollars every year"

IMO it was more a case of it was stopping them ripping off one region and showing favouritism in another, every year. And a good thing too.

[gingejbee]

Just a thought....if it is meant to be "played in the USA", it may not be a "region" problem but a disc meant for NTSC systems rather than PAL systems.
I have a number of these - they are not region-specific, but require the TV to be altered to NTSC playback (via Menu, Settings etc)