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Hello.. I just got a membership at BCL and seems like all the three DVDs I checked out are Region 2 -- which obviously dont play on my India-bought DVD plyer (Phillips AZ 5738). I have emailed BCL and their response is get the manufacturer / store to change the region on the DVD player - The store has no clue what I am talking about (Croma) -- Phillips says that would be copyright violation and cant do it. Has anybody else faced this problem? It really sucks coz I dont want to shell out more money for DVDs - I have already paid BCL 3500 for my annual membership and was kinda of hoping to get my share of DVDs from the library. Update: I got the number wrong.. its ' I went to BCL and the guy there told me,
In the meantime, I am looking at the option of hacking the DVD player -- something I am not very eager to do. So that leaves me with you-tube popspeak: when you click on the |
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When getting DVDs, the first thing to check is usually the region code of available media. However, it is quite correct to expect proper region DVDs from a local source like BCL and you should meet someone from their support at the F.C. Road place to interact on this. Communicating over e-mail is not likely to solve this problem. Given that you have shelled out membership fees for the year and BCL is unlikely to change their stock fast enough for you to see the effects, the other option for you is to hack your Philips player region-code locks. While this might sound strong, most DVD players are sold with no DVD region locks or very easily bypassed locks (with OEM sequences that will do the needful). Series of Philips region free methods at the RegionFreeDVD.Net site.
Now, getting to your specific model -- turns out ' Update: Seems your AZ 5738 is actually a boombox. I have not heard of converting these region-free. But, it should be possible. While the manufacturers do not give out the codes to do this, they are usually leaked out at other sites. Another update: there seems to be no supported sequence at VideoHelp yet. You should however insist BCL get the right DVDs. Getting region 2 discs in India would itself be illegal too -- the players cannot play these discs by default because they are meant to not play European content in India; BCL is effectively 'pirating' |
sorry- just so i am clear- BCL_ british council library at FC road
Well, Philips is one of those players which can be easily made region-free (the procedures on the link I gave are OEM supported). It is usually Sony players that do not support such procedures.