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(Some) DVDs won't play

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Mr. Pedantic

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Let me preface this by saying that my drive worked perfectly about a month ago, and I haven't changed any components since then.

I had rented out a DVD, from the third season of House. I put this in the optical drive of my main computer (it's a blu-ray reader from LG, I think) and waited. Nothing. I tried double-clicking, opening VLC and navigating to the drive, nothing would make it work. I'd noticed that it wasn't spinning up, which I thought was a bit odd. So I tried to copy out some of the files on the DVD onto my hard drive. I think I got 256kB before it petered out - the maximum transfer speed during that was about 7kB/s.

I thought this was odd, so I put in a disk from Hustle (this one is actually mine, a gift from a friend). This played back and copied out perfectly.

So when I returned the House I got out Gray's Anatomy (yeah, I'm a sucker for medical dramas) and tried to play this on my DVD player. Again, no luck.

I would also like to say that my proper DVD player runs these perfectly fine, and I've been watching these on my TV.

I thought it might be a regional problem, since the Hustle was from the UK and the House and Gray's from the US?

Any help would be appreciated, thanks!
 
It proabably is a region coding issue.
Have you check the region options in device manager?
(And it's "Grey's Anatomy" no matter where you're from)
🙂
 
Yeah, yeah, whatever. Keep getting confused with the textbook... 🙂

Yeah, there's an option to change the region in the Device Manager, but it says it can only be done 4 times. Is there some kind of software that makes a DVD region-agnostic? I was hoping to buy some other DVDs from the UK, Taiwan (I'm going at the end of this year) or the US, since it's cheaper than buying them here, but if I won't be able to play them, I may as well not bother.
 
I'm sure there are programs to nullify region coding, but as I don't have discs from other regions, I couldn't recommend anything.
I do remember ANYDVD having the feature although I didn't use it.
(Looks like DVD43 will do this as well)
 
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