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Posted by ilyapopov on 12/10/06 08:35
RobMac wrote:
> <ilyapopov@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1165679771.010657.10050@n67g2000cwd.googlegroups.com...
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I've been searching the net for a solution to my problem, but have yet
> > to come across a single bit of information which might help me. Perhaps
> > someone here might have some advice that would alleviate a problem most
> > unusual? I recently purchased a copy of Die Hard with a Vengeance: The
> > Special Edition. However: my computer refuses to even detect the bloody
> > dvd. My flatmate's computer detected the movie, and had no trouble
> > reading it. Yet when in my dvd player, the cd makes a few clicking
> > sounds, as it is wont to do when trying to read a cd, and then simply
> > stops, and does absolutely nothing.
> >
> > My system specs, you ask? I'm using a Dell Inspiron 5100 laptop. The
> > DVD player? Samsung CDRW/DVD SN-324F using Driver Version 5.1.2535.0.
> >
> > No other cd has any difficulty playing in my DVD player, except this
> > one, rebellious disc. Anyone have any ideas as to why the hell it
> > doesn't work?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Ilya
> >
> >
>
> Just a stab at a guess here, but, I'm wondering if maybe you've got a
> different region DVD?
That is correct. Naturally, there are programmes such as DVD Idle,
which circumvent that particular annoyance.
> You use terms like "bloody" and "flatmate" - and I'm not sure what region
> your computer's DVD software is set for (I'm in the US and your vernacular
> sounds UK, but I don't know where you are), what region your DVD is, if
> your computer is capable of reading NTSC, PAL and/or SECAM, is the Die Hard
> DVD in PAL or NTSC?
I'm using a DVD player set to region 1, but playing DVDs from region 5.
This is the only cd thus far that's actually refused to work. However,
interestingly enough,
but which can of course be circumvented with any number of programmes.
However, I live in Moscow, and am using region 5 DVDs. Yet this is the
first time that a DVD has refused to work on my computer. However, the
situation is more interesting than expected:
It is a dual layered DVD, and I am uncertain as to whether or not that
should be presenting any problems for me. Likewise, the DVD has
*automatically* worked on computers whose players are set to region 2.
If there is a region code for this DVD (normally region 5, for Russia),
then I have not found it. It might be that this is a regionless DVD
(I've heard of these, but never actually encountered one...)
But since my hardware doesn't even *detect* the DVD, I'm not sure how
much concern I ought to express over region incompatabilities.
> You could just have a conflict in formats.....?
>
> If I'm wrong, oh well.....
Ilya
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