If i buy dvds from india can they still play on my american dvd player here?
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No. DVDs are made to work in different parts of the world. The US is region 1 where as India is region 5. You DVD player is a region 1 so it can only play region 1 discs. There is one way to get around it though. In several on-line forums you can learn hacks that you can do to your player to make it region free. Then you can play it on your player. Also a computers region code can be changed to play multi-region discs. Be careful though. The region on your computer can only be changed 5 times. So choose wisely.
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If your DVD player is region-free then it can. Many of the players sold in stores can be hacked to activate this feature, but you'll have to look online for your specific DVD player's model. Otherwise, if you have a Chinatown or Japantown near you, go to a video store there, and they sell region-free players for $40 or so. You can also buy pre-modified DVD players that have been made to be region-free from various shops on the internet as well. I bought a player from Oppo Digital (oppodigital.com) which has gotten great reviews as an upscaling DVD player, and is also easily made to be region-free by entering a simple code into the remote.
