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In The Beginning / Gathering DVD Important Info. Please Read
Ranger Brian
The Anti-Scrooge
in Babylon 5
[b]R[/b]egional [b]C[/b]oding [b]E[/b]nhancement (RCE) has recently been added by Warner and Columbia to certain Region 1 DVD’s. RCE will prevent the DVD from playing on some “Multi-Region” DVD players.
[b]In The Beginning / Gathering is a RCE Disk.[/b]
If they are waiting to see how this sells before releasing the series on DVD, why the hell have they RCE'd it?
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I have seen the future, and it was dark
and then I took my shades off...
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Only the insane have strength enough to prosper,
Only those that prosper truly judge what is sane.
[b]In The Beginning / Gathering is a RCE Disk.[/b]
If they are waiting to see how this sells before releasing the series on DVD, why the hell have they RCE'd it?
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I have seen the future, and it was dark
and then I took my shades off...
--
Only the insane have strength enough to prosper,
Only those that prosper truly judge what is sane.
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Maybe that is why the Region 4 version is being released so soon in Australia
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[b]Most probably they did this so they could track easily what the sales is like in each region....
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But where's the region 2 disks? I can only find info about region 1 and 4 versions.
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I have seen the future, and it was dark
and then I took my shades off...
--
Only the insane have strength enough to prosper,
Only those that prosper truly judge what is sane.
I bloody hope not. Geeez WB get a bloody grip. Are you trying to kill this thing before it gets off the ground?????
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'I have no surviving enemies! None what so ever!' Galen
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[b]Dam!!!! So does that mean I've wasted those dollars preordering the dvd with the intention of playing it on a multiregion player in the UK???
I bloody hope not. Geeez WB get a bloody grip. Are you trying to kill this thing before it gets off the ground?????
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I might be wrong on this, but as I understand it this is how it works. The disk actually looks for a region 1 player, so if you have a "Multi region" player that you can manually set to region 1 then you should be OK, but if you have a "region free" player then It won't work.
I have no idea on what will happan on a player that automatically changes region.
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I have seen the future, and it was dark
and then I took my shades off...
--
Only the insane have strength enough to prosper,
Only those that prosper truly judge what is sane.
[This message has been edited by Ranger Brian (edited 11-14-2001).]
On my Mac there´s a extension thats called "DVD Region Manager", which basically sets the region for the DVD-ROM, if the drive is a non-region (RPC-1) drive. So, if you tweak the extension to, say region 1, those RCE-discs should play fine. Don´t know, if there´s a similar extension involved for windows.
note: this does not actually mean it works on MacOS (notice the "should play"!). I got a RCE-disc (region 1) at home somewhere, but never actually tested it on the DVD-ROM, since I bought the disc after I got myself a multi-region (not code-free) DVD-standalone player, so I can´t proof my theory.
Taken from the Amazon.com item Page of In the Beginning/Gathering
[quote]PLEASE NOTE: Warner and Columbia have recently added a Regional Coding Enhancement (RCE) to Region 1 titles like the The Patriot and The Perfect Storm. Some, but not all, of our international customers have had problems playing these enhanced discs on what are called "region-free" DVD players. For more information on RCE, click here.
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RCE discs, afaik, only refuse to play on players set to NO region ("code-free") players (check the link in the Amazon.com quote). Players you can set to a certain region (I got an AIWA DV370 that supports that feature - its really nice if the companies that produce those players build in backdoors to change those settings... [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/biggrin.gif[/img] ), should work out fine (no guarantee on that, though), so Falcon1, those dollars are probably not wasted at all...
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[This message has been edited by madmaniac (edited 11-14-2001).]
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'The future is all around us' G'kar
'I have no surviving enemies! None what so ever!' Galen
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Does anyone know of anything like a list of RCE discs? It would be handy to check if any are in my current collection to see if it goes on mine or not.
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[b][url="http://www.minbari.co.uk/log12.2263/"]Required reading[/url][/b]
Never eat anything bigger than your own head.
The Balance provides. The Balance protects.
"Nonono...Is not [i]Great[/i] Machine. Is...[i]Not[/i]-so-Great Machine. It make good snow cone though." - Zathras
Either way, I'm going to find out in a few weeks when my Final Fantasy disc arrives.
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[b][url="http://www.minbari.co.uk/log12.2263/"]Required reading[/url][/b]
Never eat anything bigger than your own head.
The Balance provides. The Balance protects.
"Nonono...Is not [i]Great[/i] Machine. Is...[i]Not[/i]-so-Great Machine. It make good snow cone though." - Zathras
[b]Will the Region 4 disc have that region protected thing??[/b][/quote]
I don't believe so, all the info I've found on RCE is on region 1 disks
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I have seen the future, and it was dark
and then I took my shades off...
--
Only the insane have strength enough to prosper,
Only those that prosper truly judge what is sane.
[b]In The Beginning / Gathering is a RCE Disk.[/b]
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How did you know that?
[b] How did you know that?[/b][/quote]
I'm clever [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/biggrin.gif[/img] [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/biggrin.gif[/img]
It says so on various sites (Amazon, Play.com etc)
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I have seen the future, and it was dark
and then I took my shades off...
--
Only the insane have strength enough to prosper,
Only those that prosper truly judge what is sane.
[b]It says so on various sites (Amazon, Play.com etc)[/b][/quote]
Amazon says only that "Warner and Columbia have recently added a Regional Coding Enhancement (RCE) to Region 1 titles like the The Patriot and The Perfect Storm". That doesn't mean that ITB/TG DVD will have RCE either...
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I have seen the future, and it was dark
and then I took my shades off...
--
Only the insane have strength enough to prosper,
Only those that prosper truly judge what is sane.
And I just have to say this: [b]Holy ****ing shit! The Shrek DVD rocks![/b]
I love that Karaoke thing! And the interviews! And the movie! And EVERYTHING about it! I used to think that Fight Club (region 1) was the highest quality DVD available, especially with its huge number of extras. But now we have a new champion.
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[b][url="http://www.minbari.co.uk/log12.2263/"]Required reading[/url][/b]
Never eat anything bigger than your own head.
The Balance provides. The Balance protects.
"Nonono...Is not [i]Great[/i] Machine. Is...[i]Not[/i]-so-Great Machine. It make good snow cone though." - Zathras
[img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/biggrin.gif[/img]
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'The future is all around us' G'kar
'I have no surviving enemies! None what so ever!' Galen
Visit my B5 site at: [url="http://www.nialb5.com"]B5 site[/url].
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[b][url="http://www.minbari.co.uk/log12.2263/"]Required reading[/url][/b]
Never eat anything bigger than your own head.
The Balance provides. The Balance protects.
"Nonono...Is not [i]Great[/i] Machine. Is...[i]Not[/i]-so-Great Machine. It make good snow cone though." - Zathras
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'The future is all around us' G'kar
'I have no surviving enemies! None what so ever!' Galen
Visit my B5 site at: [url="http://www.nialb5.com"]B5 site[/url].
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[b][url="http://www.minbari.co.uk/log12.2263/"]Required reading[/url][/b]
Never eat anything bigger than your own head.
The Balance provides. The Balance protects.
"Nonono...Is not [i]Great[/i] Machine. Is...[i]Not[/i]-so-Great Machine. It make good snow cone though." - Zathras
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'The future is all around us' G'kar
'I have no surviving enemies! None what so ever!' Galen
Visit my B5 site at: [url="http://www.nialb5.com"]B5 site[/url].
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"When it is time,come to this place,call our name,we will be here"-Walkers of Sigma957