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Dear all,
I am new to this stuff here as I bought it today! There is a regional restriction of 5 as mention in the manual! Can anyone explain this to me and any important things?
Regards
Chris Foo
The region (in your case 5) refers to the playing of DVD movies. It is a copyright measure to prevent movies sold in one part of the world being used in another.
Make sure that any movies you wish to watch on your computer are from the right region. You can change the region a total of five times, after that, your drive will only play movies from the last used region.
This has no effect on non copywright DVDs or on CD/DVD burning.
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Oh so, is there any option for me to change or it is automatically change?
Will the burning of data cd or any VCD I make have a change on the regional codes?
Regards
Chris Foo
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Not really. When you first play a region encoded DVD, the drive should set it to that region. If you later use a different region, you will be prompted to approve the change.
This has no bearing on any other function of the drive.
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There are currently three competing DVD writing standard, DVR-RW, DVD+RW and DVD-RAM. They each use different media.
Not much to worry about there either, your drive should support all three. I think that the DVD-RW is the fastest.
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Oh! Nice to hear about that! How about dvd-r, dvd+r and DVD+RAM(got this)?
I just convert the "-" sign to plus sign! Any difference?
Regards
Chris Foo
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The only difference between the R and the RW is that the RW is rewritable. DVDRAM is rewritable by nature.
Your drive should suit all three formats. Your home DVD player may not. Just buy the blank media that both (all) can handle.
There is a lot more information available about the differences between the competing formats. I think that might be a little beyond the scope of this forum. Try googling 'DVD formats'.
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