DVD player vs. the Media

[bandit-600]

had the same thing happen to me my £500 dvd/video is funny about what it plays but the £30 dvd player i got for upstairs plays anything and the reason my local shop gave me is the cheaper players play backed up discs better is costing. To produce a cheap player the maker's put the bear min amount of software in to get the thing to work (so u put in a disc it plays it no if's,but or maybe's) on the dearer models there is more software involved (as well as better componets) so u put in a backed up disc and the software picks this up and can be very funny about playing it.

[albybach]

I had a similar problem with my Teac surround sound system $599 v elcheapo dvd player $69.

The Teac would not play anythong other than genuine region 4 dvd's for years. ....until I read an article about dvd player hacks and found out that not only could I now play all disks (and all regions) but I could turn off macrovision protection by simply entering a series of numbers from the remote .