I had to do something illigal to make a legal purchase ...? Options

[aliali]

They are locked over the Trade agreement ,you have to pay to have these units unlocked.

Not on my last two players you didn't. Just enter a specific code in to the remote and they where region unlocked.

[PointZeroOne]

Last few DVD players I've bought haven't been regioned locked. BluRay players on the other hand though are all region locked...

[Devilsmurf]

Panasonic 'unofficially' opens every DVD player when it hits Australia and perfoms region unlocks. That's why it has the Panasonic Australia sticker on it when you buy it.

Learnt that working in retail and speaking to Panasonic while there.

[NukeJockey]

I need to buy a dvd player, currently I use my PS3 for watching dvds and blurays, but my mate keeps lending me movies and tv shows that are the wrong region. -.-

[mudg3]

Build a media centre machine and run xbmc.

GG

[NukeJockey]

Build a media centre machine and run xbmc.

GG

Yeah, DVD player is cheaper and my PS3 does everything else a media centre would do.

[PointZeroOne]

I need to buy a dvd player, currently I use my PS3 for watching dvds and blurays, but my mate keeps lending me movies and tv shows that are the wrong region. -.-

we've got a kogan DVD player, was cheap and works well.

[p0is0n]

Yup.

hillarious comic, could not agree more about anything.
especially the adds on the torrent website, and correct usage of the word cunthammer.

if there was a legal website, where I could get stuff as quick and easily as I could with a torrent, for a monthly fee I would be all over it.
as it stands, every legal alternative is much more difficult, takes longer to become available, slower speeds, lower quality or is just not available.
takes me less than 30 seconds usually to find the torrent I want, check the description for quality and queue it up. If not, I can also check usenet, which I occationally pay a small fee for, how can you compete with free and superior in every way? you pretty much can't.

This post has been edited by p0is0n: Aug 7 2012, 06:46 PM

[Director]

Another example of where being honest and being 'legal' are two separate things.

Peaceful disobedience is the only course of action we have left.

[minhbo]

Yup.

hillarious comic, could not agree more about anything.
especially the adds on the torrent website, and correct usage of the word cunthammer.

if there was a legal website, where I could get stuff as quick and easily as I could with a torrent, for a monthly fee I would be all over it.
as it stands, every legal alternative is much more difficult, takes longer to become available, slower speeds, lower quality or is just not available.
takes me less than 30 seconds usually to find the torrent I want, check the description for quality and queue it up. If not, I can also check usenet, which I occationally pay a small fee for, how can you compete with free and superior in every way? you pretty much can't.

Exactly. Not to mention that in the case of movies, you have to sit through several minutes watching warnings that tell you not to pirate the movie you've just bought.

[aliali]

Exactly. Not to mention that in the case of movies, you have to sit through several minutes watching warnings that tell you not to pirate the movie you've just bought.

And here we have the whole moronic stupidity of it all. Got a legal DVD/BD disk and you can't skip these irritating and annoying warnings on most desktop players. Yet if you download the movie all that shit is ripped out.

[p0is0n]

So to elaborate on this a little, I downloaded about 15GB of tv shows last night, none of it available in Aus before anyone asks. All pretty new.
Took less than 1 minute for me to queue episodes up one by one, and grab two entire seasons. I doubt I could even find what I was looking for on a legal website in under one minute :/ This includes checking the description for quality, and to make sure none of the files are in different formats like .mp4 or stupid shit like that.

It will all be commercial free and without annoying intros (as pointed out by the posters before me). I didn't go for 720p as it wasn't available yet but HDTV rips are good enough to watch.

This post has been edited by p0is0n: Aug 14 2012, 02:44 PM

[chrisg]

:)

If you can't region unlock a DVD player in five minutes max you do not belong on Atomic, I do it all the time for my daughter, who seems to buy a new DVD player about every three weeks :) Blu I've not yet been involved with, but I doubt much difference.

It's stupid, it actually restricts sales and forces piracy - but, the Wiggles!?! My kids are somewhat over that now, but I would have thought the group alone would object if they knew - anyone have their email address ?:)

Crazy.

Cheers

[codecreeper]

I cannot unlock a region code on a DVD player either in a PC or Standalone. These players including Bluray should be region unlocked as they sell region locked DVD's. And they wonder why their is so much piracy in this Country.

[chrisg]

:)

Yes you can CC, Google is your friend, find the codes to get to the menu, most always from the remote, although I've done it from a mobile, scroll and set all region.

Blu I have nfi, don't own one .

I don't think it will differ much though, it's just code, a very stupid approach by the media companies.

Cheers

[ilyria109]

And on a computer, it's in the control panel under "regional settings"... It really isn't hard.

[chrisg]

And on a computer, it's in the control panel under "regional settings"... It really isn't hard.

:)

Probably true, seen that setting, just I don't watch movies on my PCs :)

Cheers

[ilyria109]

And on a computer, it's in the control panel under "regional settings"... It really isn't hard.

:)

Probably true, seen that setting, just I don't watch movies on my PCs :)

Cheers

was just adding to your help :P

[Harmonic Cacopho...]

So to elaborate on this a little, I downloaded about 15GB of tv shows last night, none of it available in Aus before anyone asks. All pretty new.
Took less than 1 minute for me to queue episodes up one by one, and grab two entire seasons. I doubt I could even find what I was looking for on a legal website in under one minute :/ This includes checking the description for quality, and to make sure none of the files are in different formats like .mp4 or stupid shit like that.

It will all be commercial free and without annoying intros (as pointed out by the posters before me). I didn't go for 720p as it wasn't available yet but HDTV rips are good enough to watch.

Yep, this is what I think most of us do. And when the blu-ray or DVD comes out, we'll be more likely to buy it because we actually had an enjoyable experience viewing it. Watching a show 'legally' doesn't do a damn thing for the show. They don't receive a cent for each ad you view on tv, they don't even know you are watching. But if you spend $40 on the blu-ray, a decent chunk of that money goes directly to them, and gives them legit figures as opposed to bullshit 'ratings'.

In the recent 10th anniversary of Firefly reunion thing, Joss said he loves when people apologise to him for not watching the show when it aired and only seeing the show on DVD. “So, you didn’t see the show until I got paid for it, and you had to buy it from me?! Goddammit!”.

[ibtrollin]

The only caveat to using a PS3 for media purposes is that it now picks up on the cinavia anti-piracy watermark in the audio track of what ever media of questionable legality you're viewing.