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DVD Regions Info and How to Bypass DVD Region Codes

Ever met the trouble when you insert a DVD into your computer, DVD player, it doesn't play? In most cases, the DVD might be from a different region. DVDs have a region code, which is a DRM scheme. DVD video discs may be encoded with a region code restricting the area of the world in which they can be played. If the region of your computer's DVD player doesn't match the region of the DVD you are trying to play, you won't be able to play the DVD. For example, if you have a Region 1 DVD player, you will only be allowed to play DVDs from North America.

Below are the standard DVD regions, which contain six major geographical regions, with several additional regions reserved for specialized use.

It is often possible to change the region used by your DVD player, but it can only be done a few times before it locks into one region permanently. So, is there any way to bypass region code from DVD, so that you can play your DVDs anywhere without the region codec limit.

How to Remove DVD Region Codes for free?

Brorsoft DVD Ripper, works as the professional DVD Region Free software for you to bypass the region coding on PC and Mac. This is by far the cleanest and easiest way to get around the region codes from any DVD. Besides making any DVD region free, it can also copy DVD to computer with 1:1 lossless quality, converting DVD movie to all popular video/audio formats like MP4, MOV, MKV, FLV, AVI, MP3, AAC, etc. for playback on iPad, PSP, PS3, Galaxy Tab, Microsoft Surface RT/Pro, etc. If you are a Mac user, link to DVD Ripper for Mac, which allows you to remove region code from DVD on Mac.

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Guide: Remove DVD region codes to play multi region DVDs without limitations

1. Insert DVD disc into your DVD-Rom (Ensure that you have sufficient space on hard drive to store the DVD).

2. Launch the best DVD ripper to load your DVD files.

P.S. Here you may worry about your DVD drive can't read the DVD Disc because of the incompatibility of region code. Yeah, normally, DVD drive in region 1 can't read and play DVDs that purchased from the UK(region 2) or other areas. But with this DVD Ripper, anything will become simple- It will automatically bypass the DVD region code.

3. Copy DVD to your PC hard drive

This DVD Ripper can backup DVD movie with original structure in lossless quality. Select "Copy the entire disc" to starts copying the DVD disc to hard drive. Or you can choose to copy movie only from DVD disc by selecting "Copy" > "Directly Copy" from the Format menu.

4. (Alternative way) Convert DVD movie to any popular video/audio files

The DVD Ripper can also rip DVD to almost all video and audio formats, such as convert DVD to AVI, MPEG, WMV, MP4, FLV, MOV, MKV, M4V, 3GP, MP3, WMA, WAV, AAC, AC3, OGG, etc, so you can play or share DVD movies on iPhone, PS Vita, Apple TV, Xbox, WDTV, Nexus 7, and more media devices in a more convenient way.