I have been having many drive related problems with my DMRES20D, the most recent being that it would not play a brand new DVD (Twins by Universal Studios).

It came up with the message:

"This disc is not formatted to play in this region"

The Twins DVD is a region 2 PAL DVD, my player is multi-region.

It was still within the Supercare period with Richer sounds so it went back for repair.

They loaned me an identical machine and it too would not play the Twins DVD. (Same message) It must be the DVD itself I hear you say.. Well it plays in many many other players, Toshiba, Sony etc, and in all the many different PCs & Laptops I have access to.

I soon had my original DMRES20D back, it has had a new Ram drive installed and all other faults seemed to have been fixed.

But... It still will not play the Twins DVD. (Same message).

Anyone have any ideas?

Panasonic say :
"In response, I would explain that if the disc is an region 2 NTSC disc please ensure that timer recording is not setup on your DMR-ES20. If it is not set and it still will not play then there may be a compatibility issue with the way the DVD has been recorded."

Thanks in advance.
Pete.

Could Twins be RCE (Region Code Enhanced?)

RCE films won't play on a multi-region player.

Thanks Seymore, that was it.

I made a backup copy of it with DVDShrink which stated it was RCE. The backup copy then worked..

Thanks again.

This is surely another example of the media rights boys making life difficult for genuine customers, while letting the pirates have their wicked ways.
Alan

You're welcome