DVD warning message

[Larry]

When I tried to run a DVD on my Brand New CPQ50  Laptop, I receive a warning message about the DVD being in the wrong format, and wanting me to select the Australia format. I could do this, but the warning also states I can only perform this task 5 times. Should I change the format?

[KirkS]

The DVD movie you tried to play was encoded to DVD Region 4 (Australia).  If you live in Australia and all the movies you play will be ones from Australia then you can go ahead and change the DVD Region code.  As the message indicated you can do this 5 times.

Just make sure that if you do this a number of times that the last change (number 5) will be permanent.

A good write up on DVD Region coding is on Wikipedia at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD_region_code

[Larry]

HI Kirk,

My situation was actually the reverse of what you cited. The DVD player was configured for Australia out of the box, while the DVD I was trying to play is in America/Canada format. I ended up chatting with support to learn it was ok to make this change, but I am surprised that the Laptop was configurer this way in the first place. 

[jdphil07]

I got the same warning message on my DV6T-1100 CTO. The message said my DVD drive was Set to Code 0(factory setting) i put in a region 1(USA) and it made me change the region code. Now HP made me lose ONE chance if i want to switch to a different region. If they were smart at the factory they would have configured my  notebook to be region one as that was where they were shipping my computer. The tech support told me that Region 0 was the default which i strongly disagree with. Looks like this is one of HPs  screw ups. 

[nousernamesleft]

Hi there, not sure of the best place to post this but here goes.

I am in Australia, and upon trying the first dvd in my presario CQ60 i was told i needed to make one of my 5 changes to region 0.  Thinking this was multi region i accepted and played the legally purchased dvd fine. 

Upon trying a second legally purchased dvd (region 4) i am again asked for one of my 4 changes. However the player now says i am currently in Region 1. 

I dont know where it picked region 1 from - the region 0 dvd previously looks like it was made in Europe but is regionless... ??

My question is If i have music dvds which are all sold as region 0 in Australia and want to play a movie why do i have to change the dvd coding? Is there a way that i can get round this as i would hate for it to become redundant or restrictive within a few weeks after purchasing.  I own quite a lot of music and movie dvd's, all legall purchased here in Australia.  Any help would be appreciated.