Hi all

First off, I have never had a DVD, and only ever used a portable about 3 years ago, while travelling in Germany.

I have heard that DVD's are grouped in to different world regions, and you can only play certain disks on the correct machines. I believe that any new machine defaults to the region of what ever the first disk put in to it is. Can this be re set, ? A friend of mine bought a new machine and played some disks brought back from the US. Then when he started buying local disks could not play them, and had to buy another machine....not very happyt about this.


Also does this region specific 'lock' happen on PC DVD players?. I remember about some chap a while ago 'breaking the code' and enabling them all to work?

I would like to but a DVD but want to make sure I get it right first time. Can you buy multi region DVD players in the same way you can buy multi region TV's (PAL/SECAM/NTSC ability)

Cheers

Neil