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Originally Posted by vrg
Can you tell if the DVD is playable in the USA?
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If you mean on a DVD player connected to a TV, then yes if the player is "Multi-Region". Most players can be made multi-region by going through some weird process of hitting the right buttons on the remote control and turning the machine off and on at the right point. Just google for "multi region hack" and the model number of the player to find out how.
If you mean on a PC, you can switch the DVD drive from region 1 (USA/Canada) to region 2 (Europe) to play the DVD, then switch back afterwards. The DVD playback software will prompt you to do it. HOWEVER you are limited usually to 5 region changes and after that you're stuck. If you end up in (say) region 2 and almost all of your DVDs are region 1, you may regard this as sub-optimal ...
... so what I recommend instead is purchasing some software that allows you to play DVDs from any region without using up your 5 changeovers. I use "DVD Region Free Lite" which works quite nicely, but there are others.
Dave