I ran into this way back in 2005 on a trip to Hongkong. I bought some DVDs to play on my portable player I had with me. What a mess that was! Had one DVD that would not play at all. The DVD player would not recognize it, didn't manner what you changed, would not play. The weird thing about it all was the DVD player would only allow you to change the settings three times for the different versions of videos. After that it would lock you out from playing them ever again.
Canadian here. All major releases are sold with English/French labelling throughout the country. Most new movies also have both English/French audio tracks and subtitles as well, but you do get Spanish, German options too I find. There may be some French only labelling in Quebec though, but I'd presume those are limited to French only releases.
I have tons of physical media bought used, and I've had the same issues with Euro discs not working. I bought a cheap blu ray player that had been altered to accept all codes so I use that when I have to. It seems like fewer and fewer foreign discs are unplayable now than formerly. Good to know the 4ks are not affected.
I tend to rip my DVD's, and the ripping software at least does not care about the region. And they're easier to watch, because you never need to watch the previews for 10 year old movies. But the DR stuff for Blu-Ray are a mess, making the players and rippers a lot more expensive and flaky.
I keep my blu-ray money in the U.S. 95% of the time but there are certain movies that the stupid stubborn license owners wont release in the U.S. but are released overseas. So if there's a 4K of it and I want to see it, i say "screw them" and I'll buy the overseas 4K. It's their loss of my business by hoarding the license and choking the U.S. distribution. Disney is particularly egregious about this. It makes no sense to me why they wouldn't want take my money by just releasing the disc.
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I ran into this way back in 2005 on a trip to Hongkong. I bought some DVDs to play on my portable player I had with me. What a mess that was! Had one DVD that would not play at all. The DVD player would not recognize it, didn't manner what you changed, would not play. The weird thing about it all was the DVD player would only allow you to change the settings three times for the different versions of videos. After that it would lock you out from playing them ever again.
Canadian here. All major releases are sold with English/French labelling throughout the country. Most new movies also have both English/French audio tracks and subtitles as well, but you do get Spanish, German options too I find.
There may be some French only labelling in Quebec though, but I'd presume those are limited to French only releases.
I have tons of physical media bought used, and I've had the same issues with Euro discs not working. I bought a cheap blu ray player that had been altered to accept all codes so I use that when I have to. It seems like fewer and fewer foreign discs are unplayable now than formerly. Good to know the 4ks are not affected.
Jossie Wales,
"Nothing Extra."
(With "10 Bears)
A GRAY Rider.☠️
There is also PAL vs NTSC format
I tend to rip my DVD's, and the ripping software at least does not care about the region. And they're easier to watch, because you never need to watch the previews for 10 year old movies. But the DR stuff for Blu-Ray are a mess, making the players and rippers a lot more expensive and flaky.
I keep my blu-ray money in the U.S. 95% of the time but there are certain movies that the stupid stubborn license owners wont release in the U.S. but are released overseas. So if there's a 4K of it and I want to see it, i say "screw them" and I'll buy the overseas 4K.
It's their loss of my business by hoarding the license and choking the U.S. distribution. Disney is particularly egregious about this. It makes no sense to me why they wouldn't want take my money by just releasing the disc.