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BDP-S570 and playing a Blue ray purchased in Canada

Topic started on Apr 18, 2012 2:10 PM , last reply on Apr 18, 2012 4:01 PM

in TV & Home Cinema DVD, Blu-Ray & HDD Recorders

tt51mac

1 posts since
Apr 18, 2012

I have a BDP-S570 and have a couple of discs, DVD and Blue Ray that I purchased that dont play on my UK machine.

The film "Shakespeare in Love" is only distributed in Blue ray in Canada and is unavailable in the UK.

The other is a childrens DVD "Olivia" distributed by Nickolodean in North America and also not available in the UK.

Is there any way of playing these discs or do I need to import a US specification DVD player?

Kind regards

Martin

nikkilim
161 posts since
Feb 15, 2012

Written on Apr 18, 2012 3:11 PM

That is correct. The region settings on the DVD from UK is preventing you from viewing it.
Bravia55HX923
1,828 posts since
May 12, 2011

Written on Apr 18, 2012 4:01 PM

Hi,
theres no way out for the blu ray disc however you say the other one you imported is DVD, the only way round this would be to buy one of those players with region free DVD players, what this means is if you buy a blu ray player with region free playback you can only play DVD'S on it that are region free, blu ray's will still be region locked.

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