Category Archives: About DVD

RPC Region Code

Feb 09th, 2012by dvd x player 311 views |0 Comments

RPCRegional Playback Control is a system used by DVD manufacturers to limit the use of DVD’s divided by geographic regions.  RPC region code is implemented on most commercial DVD’s and on most DVD players.

Older DVD drives use RPC-1 firmware, which means the drive allows DVDs from any region to play. Newer drives use RPC-2 firmware, which enforces the DVD region coding at the hardware level. These drives can often be reflashed or hacked with RPC-1 firmware, effectively making the drive region-free. This may void the drive warranty. Read More »

Clean the DVD laser pickup lens – make your DVD player works well

Jan 09th, 2012by dvd x player 424 views |0 Comments

Your DVD player may goes wrong or occurs error when you are about to play DVD, then you may need to clean the player. There is a laser pickup inside the DVD player which can read the DVD disks and allows you to view the content. Timely clean up the laser pickup to make your DVD player work smoothly and functioning.

To confirm the problem you can just insert several DVDs into the player to make sure it is actually the problem of the laser pickup lens. If some plays normally but other does not, the problem is not the player. If none can play, mostly the problem is that the laser pickup lens becomes dirty. Read More »

Why won’t the burned DVD play

Jan 03rd, 2012by dvd x player 272 views |0 Comments

It is really frustrating when you tried your every effect to burn a DVD and only to find it don not play. You edit the movie elaborately and burned it onto a DVD, but when you insert into the DVD player, it won’t play. Why won’t the burned DVD play?

Well, there may be lots of reasons, here in this article, I will list them out, so that you can fix the disks and prevent the problem in the future. Read More »

Are HD-DVD and Blu-ray Players Compatible with Standard DVDs and CDs?

Nov 26th, 2011by dvd x player 574 views |0 Comments

HD-DVD is now officially halted. However, this article is still contains information on HD-DVD, and its comparison to Blu-ray for historical background, as well as the fact that there are still many owners of HD-DVD player, and a period of time, HD-DVD players and discs will be sold and traded continuously on the secondary market. Read More »

DVD Ghost makes DVD region free

Sep 22nd, 2011by dvdxplayer 228 views |0 Comments

Your DVD player is limited. You can only play DVDs from your region? If you live in the United States, you are limited to play DVDs from Region 1 (U.S. and Canada). And if you live in the UK, you are limited in region 2 (Europe). Australia is limited in the region 4 and so on. But what if you want to play one of the thousands of cheap DVDs from other regions? You need to make your DVD region free. Read More »

DVD region lock

Sep 14th, 2011by dvdxplayer 433 views |1 Comments

What is DVD region lock?

DVD region lock is used on DVD players. DVD region lock can prevent the DVD that is released in one region from successfully playing in different region. That is say, the DVD movies released in the USA and Canada may not be released in other parts of the world until autumn, winter or even a year later. You purchase a DVD movie in the USA and mail it to your Chinese friend before the DVD is released in China. Your friend cannot play the DVD on their region 6 DVD player because of the DVD region lock. Read More »

Easy Remove Write Protection from DVD

Sep 07th, 2011by dvdxplayer 734 views |0 Comments

What is write protection on DVD?

Write protection is used on CD or DVD that cannot be rewritten. Write protection prevents DVD information from being erased. It also prevents additional data from being burned to the DVD disc. So when you try to burn information to a DVD, it will pop up the message that you cannot do it. Read More »

Remove copy protection from DVD

Sep 05th, 2011by dvdxplayer 360 views |0 Comments

Usually we will encounter this problem that we cannot play the DVD on PC because it has a copy protection. Is there a way to play them or to remove copy protection DVD? The answer is of course. Through DVD Ghost, we can play any DVD movie on all Windows computer because it can auto remove DVD copy protection once you insert the DVD into the drive. Read More »

DVD Ghost-Professional DVD Decrypter for Vista

Sep 02nd, 2011by dvdxplayer 477 views |1 Comments

DVD Ghost is professional DVD decrypter that perfectly works with Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 98/98SE/ME, Windows NT/2000/2003. This DVD decrypter will also run in the background and decrypts DVD protections for all DVD drives, all DVD discs, DVD player software, DVD copy software, DVD backup software. On the other hand, we can also use this DVD decrypter to copy commercial DVDs to hard disk. Read More »

Quickest Split DVD-9 to 2 DVD+R on Windows PC

Aug 30th, 2011by dvdxplayer 534 views |0 Comments

If you want to split DVD9 to 2 DVD+R on Windows PC in the quickest and easiest way without any quality loss, you should free try this DVD copy software-CloneDVD from http://www.dvd-x-player.com/. It can perfectly and intelligently split DVD9 into 2 DVD+R on Windows. Read More »