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Our Sony DVD player will not playimported DVDs from the UStates

Sebastian imported some Avatar DVDs from the UStates.
They will not play on our Sony DVD player bought in the UK.
We think thjis has something to do with the "coding" and the US DVD s are not compatible with our machine??

Is it possible to change the settings on the DVD player to play these US DVDs, ideally the home player would play any DVD at any time

Is there a Fix?

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Because the region codes of your DVD player and DVDs not match. Here you need to use Leawo DVD Copy to remove the region code upon your DVDs.

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You can get a region free player program on your computer and then you will be free from the region code issues. You could try Leawo Blu-ray Player which is a free Blu-ray player and you could use it to play any DVD and Blu-ray discs.

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1) those DVDs are coded in Region 1(Canada, United States; U.S. territories; Bermuda)
you will have to change the region code on the dvd-rom to region 1

2) if you bought the stand alone DVD player in the U.S. it will play region 1 dvds and nothing else(some dvd players will play region code 1-6)

3) to change the code in windows vista you'll have to go under the drive property's in the device manager go to the dvd region tab and set it to what ever the number on the back of the dvd is WARNING you only get 4 changes before the drive locks you out permanently then your stuck with what ever number you put in on the 4th try you've been warned

windows xp/2000/98/me
you'll have to change the region code from your software player again your limited on how many times you can change the region code before you have to reinstall the dvd player software

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