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Hi all

Am looking at buying some Italian movies on DVD for Nanna for christmas. I know I have to buy region 4 films, but have also seen region 0 (as well as all region).

Can I buy region 0 dvd's? (I'm assuming I can buy all region ones)

Region 0 is all region (same thing).

We recently bought a Panasonic DVD/Video combo unit and it played my US Region (1 I think?) DVD's no sweat

My brother's old Sony DVD player also plays the US DVDs

My 5 year old Panasonic DVD player doesn't

I vaguely remember reading some years ago that, at that time, players would swap zones a few times before they finally locked into one.

You can buy Region 0 DVD's but most DVD players are multi regional these days anyhow.
if you buy a multi region DVD player it wont matter what movie you buy.

I was told that it illegal for DVD's to have "All Regions" stickers on them.
My player has zone 4 on it but it plays all zones

It might be illegal to have a region 0 sticker on it, but not a region 0 player.
For example, the local strathf***ds dealer will be more than happy to sell you a region 4 player, stick a cd in it to make it region 0 and off you go..

So your saying that the $50 AWA cheapy player that I bought my Nanna for christmas last year will probably be multi zone, tried looking in the instruction booklet last night, but it didnt tell me anything...

With DVD players I would say the cheaper the more likely it is to play any region.
I bought a $40 sansui player 2 years ago, it plays any region and hasn't missed a beat.
I reckon if I put dog turds into it, it would start barking.

I know my LG dvd recorder isnt multi zone, I tried to beat the rush and bought Madagascar wide screen before it came out in Australia and it didnt work in mine...

MadaWhoHar?

You know "madagascar" with the lion and giraffe and the evil penguins that escape from the zoo?? You have kids, you should know

Falcon Chick wrote:You know "madagascar" with the lion and giraffe and the evil penguins that escape from the zoo?? You have kids, you should know

That was a line from the movie!

Smile and wave boys... Smile and wave.

I Penguins!!!

Check it out on the net and see if your dvd machine can play them. Try ebay for your dvds.

I brought an awa with DivX and it is great never misses a beat and plays all regions.

I have a Pioneer DVR with a disk drive. Only played region 4, until I got the code off the net and now it plays everything.

Just love google.

Does anyone happen to have a dvd from another region I could borrow to test?? Its the only way I'm probably gonna find out without buying one..

I bought some DVDs once that were "All Regions". Wouldn't play in my LG $900 DVD recorder but would play in my $50 cheapy, ended up burning it so that it was No Regions and it works fine in the LG too.
Worst comes to worst and you get something that's the wrong region a bit of free software and a DVD burner will fix it up for you.

Yes, apparantly my lovely computer has a dvd burner, buggered if i know how to use it though...