Posted by Steve on 05/29/06 04:47

On Sun, 28 May 2006 15:57:48 -0700, PJ <pj4380@yahoo.com> wrote:

>New here.
>
>Rental major studio discs from Hollywood Video are marked Region 1 on
>box and on disk. Will not playback on Philips DVD player (player
>message says, "Disc error, manually eject disk, playback may not be
>enabled on this disc.")
>
>These rentals will playback on my HP laptop and on wife's iBook. Philips
>claims that although the disk is marked Region One, it may have been
>made outside the U.S. and their, "very stringent" copy protection won't
>recognize the disc.
>
>Note: Other DVD-video discs like workout lessons work fine in the Philips.
>
>Hollywood Video has been quite nice in making exchanges and refunding money.
>
>HP laptop is new and has 'automatic regionalization' Did I just screw
>up the laptop by playing a bogus DVD??
>
>Any clues??

It would have been nice if you had said WHICH Philips player, since
there are over 100 Philips models sold in North America, but assuming
it's the ever-popular DVP-642 here's the region hack entries. Some
discs require the player to have a region set, rather than be
region-free.
http://www.videohelp.com/dvdhacks.php?select=Philips+DVP+642

... Steve ..

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