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Technical Help & Discussion => Self Building, Upgrading & General Hardware Help => Topic started by: jon996 on March 18, 2005, 22:21

Title: dvd rw
Post by: jon996 on March 18, 2005, 22:21

hey all,

jus bought a new dvd rw drive...a  NEC ND-3520A...and i was wondering whether it will play dvd movies?

jon :)

Title: dvd rw
Post by: Simon on March 18, 2005, 22:26

Don't see why not - try it and see!   :D   You might be limited to Region 2 DVDs, but there's ways round that by searching Google for something like 'DVD Region Free'.  ;)

Title: dvd rw
Post by: jon996 on March 18, 2005, 22:45

mmmmm just bought it off Ebuyer. i shall see when it arrives monday :D

Title: dvd rw
Post by: Medicate on March 22, 2005, 22:21

You should have no problems in viewing DVD's providing you have somethind like WinDVD or similar installed on your system. Or have the correct codec for your media player.

You will be able to view any region for up to four times on most DVD players/recorders then you are stuck on the last region you viewed. Safest to view Region 2, our region that way no problems.

You will be able to view non-regionalised discs but, they will be copies and therefore illegal.

Title: dvd rw
Post by: Simon on March 22, 2005, 23:56

Quote from: "Medicate"

You will be able to view non-regionalised discs but, they will be copies and therefore illegal.

If you mean Region 0, then not all of these are illegal!  Many UK issued music DVDs are Region 0.   :wink: