http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD_region_codes
South America AND Australia are Region 4!
And many of these foreign DVDs are what is known as Region 0 - usually these can be played on any DVD player, but that's never a guarantee. Only official releases or legitimate region-coded DVDs are guaranteed to play upon the DVD players that have been set to the appropriate region code for their countries.
What one needs to do to play DVDs from other regions:
1. Buy a DVD player that plays DVDs from any region. Usually costs more.
2. To save money, there are many very inexpensive DVD players and Region 1 DVD players by name brands that actually have a "hack code" that permits the owner to disable the Region 1 default setting on their DVD players. You can find out the hack code usually through Google, using the appropriate search information, such as the make and model of the DVD player you own or are interested in purchasing and the phrases "hack code" and "region free" or "multi-region" or what have you.
(Perhaps someone more knowledgeable behind the politics of this can explain why one must use a hack code to play DVDs from other regions? The only one I can think of is that region coding is a way to if not control, at least sway markets in favor of the more localized economy through the omission of certain information. Things, they are the same everywhere!)
South America AND Australia are Region 4!
And many of these foreign DVDs are what is known as Region 0 - usually these can be played on any DVD player, but that's never a guarantee. Only official releases or legitimate region-coded DVDs are guaranteed to play upon the DVD players that have been set to the appropriate region code for their countries.
What one needs to do to play DVDs from other regions:
1. Buy a DVD player that plays DVDs from any region. Usually costs more.
2. To save money, there are many very inexpensive DVD players and Region 1 DVD players by name brands that actually have a "hack code" that permits the owner to disable the Region 1 default setting on their DVD players. You can find out the hack code usually through Google, using the appropriate search information, such as the make and model of the DVD player you own or are interested in purchasing and the phrases "hack code" and "region free" or "multi-region" or what have you.
(Perhaps someone more knowledgeable behind the politics of this can explain why one must use a hack code to play DVDs from other regions? The only one I can think of is that region coding is a way to if not control, at least sway markets in favor of the more localized economy through the omission of certain information. Things, they are the same everywhere!)
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