This might be a silly question but i'll ask it anyway.
I've had 2 dvds arrive from a supplier in the usa and both are knackered and wont play.So i've contacted them and they've told me to return them for replacements.
What i want to know is am i breaking any laws by doing this and if our customs open them on the way to usa will anything happen.
cheers
help
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PaulE
Re: help
> I've had 2 dvds arrive from a supplier in the usa and both
> are knackered and wont play.So i've contacted them and
> they've told me to return them for replacements.
I'd put a small wager on the fact that the replacements won't play either. A lot of DVDs are 'regionalised', which means that some DVDs produced for one part of the world won't play on machines in another.
You can get multi-regional players, but, in the meantime (depending on your player), you could try the following.
Put a DVD in the player that you know will play. Once it's ready, press Pause. Then, manually open the tray and replace that DVD with the one that's 'knackered' and push the tray back in by hand. It usually works OK!
> are knackered and wont play.So i've contacted them and
> they've told me to return them for replacements.
I'd put a small wager on the fact that the replacements won't play either. A lot of DVDs are 'regionalised', which means that some DVDs produced for one part of the world won't play on machines in another.
You can get multi-regional players, but, in the meantime (depending on your player), you could try the following.
Put a DVD in the player that you know will play. Once it's ready, press Pause. Then, manually open the tray and replace that DVD with the one that's 'knackered' and push the tray back in by hand. It usually works OK!
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Karol
Re: help
99% of adult dvds are region free, at least that's my experience. On the odd occasion one or two won't play, despite being replaced. Nothing to do with region coding, just the way the discs were pressed, or some players will not play all discs. eg my Tosh 100E would not play "Young, Dumb..... # 2" no matter how many times it was replaced, yet it plays # 1, 5, 6...go figure.
For some reason, the way they're coded also affects playback. "New wave hookers # 6" will refuse to play on my Tosh 100E, but plays without protest on a Tosh SD2107, a machine 2 years older.
For some reason, the way they're coded also affects playback. "New wave hookers # 6" will refuse to play on my Tosh 100E, but plays without protest on a Tosh SD2107, a machine 2 years older.