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| Registered: May 12, 2007 |  Posts: 16 |
| | Posted: | | | | Is not clear in rules, so asking the question I am sure has been asked before. If a dvd is encoded for all regions i.e 1-6, do we tick all the region boxes or leave as unticked, so will come up as region free? Does not bother which way is correct, just so i know for future contributions. |
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| Registered: June 12, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 2,665 |
| | Posted: | | | | unticked = All Regions | | | | Bad movie? You're soaking in it! | | | | Last edited: by tweeter |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 8,736 |
| | Posted: | | | | Leave them all unticked (referred to as "No region coding" in the program). |
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| Registered: May 18, 2007 |  Posts: 232 |
| | Posted: | | | | This is something I've misunderstood too. I thought "No region coding" meant no region coding. And that "All regions", meant all regions 1-6. Does this mean we should tick all regions for region 0 (no region coding)? | | | | Last edited: by Gemini76 |
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| Registered: May 9, 2008 | | Posts: 467 |
| | Posted: | | | | I enter the DVDs as they show up when I run them through various tools to check region coding.
For example "Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead: Special Egg-Dition" actually has all region codes active so I enter it as 1,2,3,4,5,6. Other DVDs that have "No Region Coding" I do not check anything.
That way the entry reflects how the DVD is actually encoded. While functionally they are the same in the end the actual encoding on the DVDs differ and the profile can reflect that.
Tom |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 1,774 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting tkinnen: Quote:
I enter the DVDs as they show up when I run them through various tools to check region coding.
For example "Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead: Special Egg-Dition" actually has all region codes active so I enter it as 1,2,3,4,5,6. Other DVDs that have "No Region Coding" I do not check anything.
That way the entry reflects how the DVD is actually encoded. While functionally they are the same in the end the actual encoding on the DVDs differ and the profile can reflect that.
Tom This is technically correct, but unfortunately against the contribution rules: List DVDs encoded for at least Regions 1-6 as "All." Regions 7-8 are ignored for the purposes of DVD Profiler. | | | | Last edited: by SpaceFreakMicha |
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| Registered: March 15, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 5,459 |
| | Posted: | | | | Although for all practical purposes they are identical, what I do is follow the cover: if the cover has a "Region 0" logo or says No Region Coding, I don't tick anything. But if the cover has an "All" region logo or says All Regions, I'll tick them all. I also think it would be nice if Ken included an "All" icon in the program as well.  | | | | Last edited: by northbloke |
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| Registered: May 18, 2007 | | Posts: 232 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting SpaceFreakMicha: Quote:
Quoting tkinnen:
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I enter the DVDs as they show up when I run them through various tools to check region coding.
For example "Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead: Special Egg-Dition" actually has all region codes active so I enter it as 1,2,3,4,5,6. Other DVDs that have "No Region Coding" I do not check anything.
That way the entry reflects how the DVD is actually encoded. While functionally they are the same in the end the actual encoding on the DVDs differ and the profile can reflect that.
Tom
This is technically correct, but unfortunately against the contribution rules:
List DVDs encoded for at least Regions 1-6 as "All." Regions 7-8 are ignored for the purposes of DVD Profiler. No, here it says to list them as All, so I ca't see how it's against the rules to list them as All. I can only interpret this as you check all the boxes, if the disc is coded for region 1-6. |
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| Registered: December 13, 2008 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 334 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting northbloke: Quote:
Although for all practical purposes they are identical, what I do is follow the cover: if the cover has a "Region 0" logo or says No Region Coding, I don't tick anything.
But if the cover has an "All" region logo or says All Regions, I'll tick them all.
I also think it would be nice if Ken included an "All" icon in the program as well. To me they're not identical for all practical purposes, because if nobody has entered the region it will default to "All Regions", so that All Regions could be there on purpose but could also be there just because no info has been entered. Checking 1,2,3,4,5,6 will cause an "M" to appear so then you can see that the info's there on purpose. Like you i'd therefore like an All icon.  |
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| Registered: May 12, 2007 | | Posts: 16 |
| | Posted: | | | | I tend to agree with mallrat and northbloke, as i have some dvd's with all regions, but others encoded with no region at all. So no definitive answer....maybe an all regions tick box is needed? |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 79 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting bovva66: Quote:
I tend to agree with mallrat and northbloke, as i have some dvd's with all regions, but others encoded with no region at all. So no definitive answer....maybe an all regions tick box is needed? How do you determine the difference between all regions and no region discs? I was under the impression that the only way to make a disc region-free was to enable it for all regions, and when people refer to "region-free" or "no region coding" that actually means the disc is region 1-8. I could be wrong, of course, so I'm curious to know what tool you use to distinguish between the two, and how the result is presented. |
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| Registered: March 15, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,459 |
| | Posted: | | | | To keep it simple, I would suggest we would use what was on the cover: if the cover says no regions, we tick none, if the cover says all regions we tick all.
There are programs which will break down the region coding to work out the actual difference, I think ifoEdit is one, but that's more work than what should be expected from the average user, so I think using the cover is fairer. |
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| Registered: July 31, 2008 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,506 |
| | Posted: | | | | My understanding has always been as stated in this thread but one of the last times the subject came up I was shot down by a few people saying that there was absolutely no difference between none & all. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 3,197 |
| | Posted: | | | | There is no practical difference between no regions and all regions. Furthermore I don't think I've seen any covers marked 1-6, they usually have a 0 or no markings at all (or just the region where it's sold so as not to confuse the consumer). I suggest using no regions in DVD Profiler since this will show as 0. | | | | First registered: February 15, 2002 |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 1,440 |
| | Posted: | | | | List DVDs encoded for at least Regions 1-6 as "All." Regions 7-8 are ignored for the purposes of DVD Profiler.
This is a place where the rules have not been updated along with the program. In Version 2.x there was an All check box. | | | | Registered: February 10, 2002 |
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