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Posted by gracejanebaker on 06/07/06 08:34
Koroshiya 1 wrote:
> <gracejanebaker@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:1149615575.171162.231810@f6g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> >
> > Thanks - will try that, if it makes any difference I don't think a
> > region has ever been inputted, it switches from 1 - 2 depending on what
> > disc I'm using. I hope that doesn't make it tricky for RCE....
> >
> > The DVD title I'm after is Newsradio (something that never became
> > worthy of a Region 2 disc) - which I think is Columbia/Tri-star - I
> > think I heard that a lot of/all of their discs are RCE (I could have
> > been grossly misinformed though).
>
> Columbia (well, Sony Pictures now) releases used to have RCE, but it was
> never really applied to that many titles. There's an outside chance that the
> title you want will have RCE, but if you use the instructions I posted to
> set the player to region one you'll have no playback issues. After you've
> set it to region one you should never have to touch it again, as RCE wasn't
> implemented in other regions. Don't worry, it will still play region two
> (and other region) discs and the like without you having to change it every
> time, as it's an automatic mod with a manual backup.
>
> Setting the player to region one is to do with the way the RCE code attempts
> to discover if the machine is multi-region. When a normal DVD first loads
> the code asks the player which region it is. If it's coded for region one
> it'll ask the player if it's also region one. A multi-region player will
> respond 'yes' and the disc will play. RCE tried to be clever by first asking
> if the player is region one, then asking if it was another region as well.
> If it got two 'yes' answers, it would know it was a multi-region machine and
> wouldn't play the disc.
>
> BTW, you have the exact same mod as my old DV-444. The newer Pioneer mods
> are completely transparent, in that they will play RCE titles without any
> user intervention (not that there are that many RCE titles). There's a list
> of RCE titles on DVDTalk: http://www.dvdtalk.com/rce.html
Thanks so much for your responses
I'm having a bit of trouble actually changing the region. If I actually
*can't* change it, am I basically screwed as far as RCE goes?
By the way, is that a current RCE DVD list there?
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