Casino Royale Region 1

[andya]

Totally new to all this so please be gentle. My simple goal at this time is to enable Region 1 DVDs to play on my Sony BDP-S300. After loading the disc into my PC drive I get the status below. When inserted into Sony player it states Incompatible Region Code.

Summary for drive E: (AnyDVD 6.4.0.7)
PHILIPS SPD2412T P1.3 0816
Drive (Hardware) Region: 2

Media is a DVD.
Booktype: dvd-rom (version 1), Layers: 2 (opposite)
Size of first Layer: 2084960 sectors (4072 MBytes)
Total size: 4169920 sectors (8144 MBytes)

Video DVD (or CD) label: Casino Royale
Media is CSS protected!
Video Standard: NTSC
Media is locked to region(s): 1!

RCE protection not found.
Found & removed structural copy protection!
Found & removed invalid cell pieces!
Found & removed bogus title set(s)!
Found & removed invalid VOBUs!
Found & removed Autorun from Video DVD!
Found & removed 3 potential bad sector protections!
Emulating RPC-2 drive with region 1!

 

[Webslinger]

Totally new to all this so please be gentle. My simple goal at this time is to enable Region 1 DVDs to play on my Sony BDP-S300. After loading the disc into my PC drive I get the status below. When inserted into Sony player it states Incompatible Region Code.

You can make a backup to remove region coding using Anydvd. However, your Sony BDP-S300 must be able to convert NTSC to PAL if you're in region 2.

Merely putting a retail dvd in your drive will not physically remove retail coding on the original disc. Anydvd will make the original disc appear region free on your computer only.

 

[andya]

Casino Royale

Thanks for the clarification. Yes I own the original Region 1 disc and I can confirm that the Sony BDP-S300 is:
- able to convert NTSC to PAL; and
- read DVD+R DL discs

I have made a backup disc by ripping to the HDD (7.36 gb) and copying back to a DVD+R DL disc. The BDP-S300 now says Can't read disc?

 

[Webslinger]

I have made a backup disc by ripping to the HDD (7.36 gb) and copying back to a DVD+R DL disc.

Use this method instead: click http://forum.slysoft.com/showthread.php?t=327

 

[andya]

Success

Much gratitude. Slight overkill in terms of cost to convert 3 x Region 1 'bargain' movies I bought in the States that used to play with ease on my old Samsung! The feeling is nontheless one of elation - thanks!