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Old 04-01-2007, 14:10   #1
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XBOX 360 - DVDs from Canada
Hi All,

The wife got a load of DVD's from her family in Canada over Xmas but our DVD player won't play them.

Does anyone know if a 360 would play them or is this region limited as well?

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Re: XBOX 360 - DVDs from Canada
No, you will not be able to play them if you have a UK 360. The only exception is if you've bought the HD-DVD add-on and you're playing HD-DVDs as they are region free.

There is software available that you could use to 'rip' the DVDs, then burn them back onto a DVD (minus the region coding) but not sure how legal this would be. Have you seen whether you can use a 'software hack' to allow you DVD player to become multi-region?
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Re: XBOX 360 - DVDs from Canada
I would think you're more likely to find a region free hack for your DVD player than for an M$ XBOX 360 - M$ bang on about DRM so much, I'm sure the region coding is locked down
Google the DVD's model and 'region free' and you might find something.
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Re: XBOX 360 - DVDs from Canada
Poo I was hoping I could use it as a reason to get a 360!

If I brought a US 360 then I assume it wouldn't play UK games?

I had a search on the net about our DVD player but they all mentioned about having to get a chip.

Can you buy DVD players that don't have regions?
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Re: XBOX 360 - DVDs from Canada
There are some games which are region free (have a look at www.play-asia.com for details). Unless you get lots DVDs from US/Canada you're better off with a UK 360
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Re: XBOX 360 - DVDs from Canada
Its funny they send a couple of DVDs in the past which worked but this year we ended up with about 10 DVDs none of which work. Which is a bummer as there were a few I really wanted to see and you can't get them over here.

They never seem to have a problem with any DVDs that we send to Canada.
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Re: XBOX 360 - DVDs from Canada
There are plenty of players that can be unlocked.
Google suggested this site that claims to have a database of unlock codes (not tried it myself! - and apologies if the mods would prefer to remove the link!!)

Also there's an example on ebay of a 'pre-hacked' DVD player for £25!
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I will check that site out later when I get the model number. Thanks
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Re: XBOX 360 - DVDs from Canada
Most cheeap DVD players from places like Asda and Tesco are usually multi region straight from the box or with a remote code hack.
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Re: XBOX 360 - DVDs from Canada
Have a look here to see if you can make your DVD player region free yourself easily.
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