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Old 18-12-2001, 19:53
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Just reading below (or maybe above by the time you get to this!) and people talking about region 1 DVD's being RCD and not playing on their modified DVD players.

Now reading through I understand that RCD stands for Region Coding Enhanced - my question being do these discs play on players that are bought as multi-region (as opposed to ones you have chipped) which are available from Richer Sounds amongst other places?

I am buying a DVD player after Xmas and was going to get a multi-region player but if not all region 1 discs are guarenteed to work on it I might not bother and go for the standard one instead.
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Old 18-12-2001, 21:28
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Only some R1 DVDs are RCE. The best place I know of to check which DVD player can handle these discs and which can't is http://www.techtronics.com/uk/shop/5...hancement.html and http://www.techtronics.com/uk/shop/5...d-players.html
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Old 18-12-2001, 21:50
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Can you recommend them to buy from?
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Old 19-12-2001, 10:38
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As a general rule if the region changing system is manual. ie you must select a region before you inset a disk then RCE will work. If the adaption means the machine detects the region and automatically selects the correct region, then RCE disks generally don't work.
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Old 19-12-2001, 19:18
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Originally posted by rattus
As a general rule if the region changing system is manual. ie you must select a region before you inset a disk then RCE will work. If the adaption means the machine detects the region and automatically selects the correct region, then RCE disks generally don't work.
thanks for that cause I thought the auto would have been better.
Helped me in my choice.
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Old 19-12-2001, 20:36
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Originally posted by rattus
As a general rule if the region changing system is manual. ie you must select a region before you inset a disk then RCE will work. If the adaption means the machine detects the region and automatically selects the correct region, then RCE disks generally don't work.
That might be what RCE was invented to do, but with the latest mod chips fitted to a DVD player, the result is somewhat different. I have a pioneer 626D DVD player fitted with a Techtronics E-Mod chip and it plays any disc from any region, RCE or not and selects the region automatically. The list of players on the techtronics link that I gave you Richard, shows which players will play RCE discs normally and which ones need a work around trick, like placing a standard R1 disc in the machine and then, just before the film starts, swapping it for the RCE disc (This is what I had to do on my old player).
It is extremely rare to find a player that will absolutely not play any RCE disc and yes, I would recommend Techtronics as that is where my last two players have come from, fully multi-region and with no macrovision (copy protection) either.
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