Posted by littlejoeflub on 07/16/06 00:38

tsr3 wrote:
> If this has been addressed before, I apologize for this duplicate
> posting.
>
> I've got a Sony region 1 DVD player. Recently I purchased a DVD
> Tampopo--upon receiving, I discovered that the
> DVD is region 2/NTSC--figured that it won't work on my player, but
> decided to try it anyway.
>
> Much to my delight, my region 1 DVD player plays this region 2/NTSC
> movie just fine.
>
> I bought the DVD player new from Best Buy several years ago, and I have
> never tried to override the region setting on the machine (wouldn't
> have a clue as to where to begin anyway)
>
> I'm can't figure out why this region 2 disc would work in my DVD
> player. I don't believe the disc is a pirated copy.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Regards--r3

I had what I thought was an R2 PAL disc of the old cartoon "Robotix:
The Movie" for the longest time since you could only get it from the
UK. I think it even said Region 2 on the back of the case. Turns out
it was probably R0 NTSC as it played fine in my US Xbox when I tried it
one time. What made me try it in the Xbox was I had previously
suceeded in both ripping it in dvdshrink and playing in Media Player
Classic on an R1 drive but when I tried another R2 title I had just
bought from amazon.co.uk it said it couldn't be used in dvdshrink or
play in MPC because my dvdrom drive was set to R1 and the dvd was R2.

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