Confusing Region Free issue- makes ZERO sense

[dentists]

I own a Sony BDP-S1700 (A,B,C Region Free) player.
“La Playa” BluRay (Dicaprio’s The Beach) Spanish “A,B,C Region Free” has worked on my player.
However, I just bought “Zwei Supertypen in Miami” bluray from Amazon Germany because the back on the set lists “A,B,C Region”.

Here’s my problem:
1. The BluRay starts, I get the typical licensing/distributing company logo and sometimes (not all the time) the menu to select chapters/subtitles/extras pops up but the background screen is black/blank
2. When I go to select a chapter/subtitles/extra the screen goes blank and if I hit play on remote it says “not allowed”

My questions:

1. Is this a defect in the discs?
2. Region Free issue? Meaning are these not truly A, B, C Region free?
3. Would I need a BluRay player from Germany/Region B due to frame rates? 25/50p? If so what player would you recommend?


So odd that it even plays the disc whatsoever… if it’s a region issue- the disc technically plays, it just doesn’t allow you to access the actual content on the disc!

[petermaverick]

I would say yes a frame rate issue 100 percent
Does your region mod only handle the region, A/B/C but not convert pal to NTSC?

[dentists]

Originally Posted by petermaverick

I would say yes a frame rate issue 100 percent
Does your region mod only handle the region, A/B/C but not convert pal to NTSC?

Hmm I don't really know?!?

It can play this though:
https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-B...lu-ray/325281/

[petermaverick]

The one that plays is a progressive image, the one that does not is interlaced.
Do you recall where the region mod was done?
The problem title is also a TV series that in the details says it is 50 HZ

Can you attach the Blu-ray player to a PC screen to see what happens

[hariseldon]

Normal NorthAmerican Sony players don't handle 50i material, but I was pretty sure that most of the modded players handled it fine. My 6700 from Bombay does it fine. Where did you buy the Region Free player from and who do the mod? Or how do you change regions for Region Locked discs?

[pr0darek]

4. or ... disc not supported by your player.

[dentists]

Thank you all who responded- your advice worked! I bought a $49 player and everything worked!

[G_MOVIES]

I didn't know where to post this but I, too, recently had a confusing blu-ray player problem. I have a region free LG player (sorry don't the model right now) and earlier this week I watched a Region B movie and a couple of nights later I tried to watch Disc One (Region A) of Severin's Black Emanuelle box set and forgot to switch over, so when I pressed play I got a message that said something like: THIS DISC IS INTENDED FOR REGION A ONLY. I then repeatedly tried switching to Region A on the player but kept getting the same message. I then grabbed a couple of random Region A blus that were laying around and had no problem playing them. But when I tried the Severin disc again I got the same message. I finally gave up and pulled the plugs out and left it alone for the night.

The next night I watched a Region A movie with no problems. Right after I tried playing the Severin Region A Disc and I once again got the same message. I then tried a few other discs in the same Severin set and they all played fine. I then tried Disc One again and this time it finally worked.

What I'm wondering is did the machine recognizing the other discs in the same set "trigger" something and that's why I was finally able to play the disc that kept saying was only Region A compatible even though I was in Region A mode?

Any insight would be appreciated, since you can probably tell I don't know much about blu-ray players.

[Eidolon]

Originally Posted by G_MOVIES

I didn't know where to post this but I, too, recently had a confusing blu-ray player problem. I have a region free LG player (sorry don't the model right now) and earlier this week I watched a Region B movie and a couple of nights later I tried to watch Disc One (Region A) of Severin's Black Emanuelle box set and forgot to switch over, so when I pressed play I got a message that said something like: THIS DISC IS INTENDED FOR REGION A ONLY. I then repeatedly tried switching to Region A on the player but kept getting the same message. I then grabbed a couple of random Region A blus that were laying around and had no problem playing them. But when I tried the Severin disc again I got the same message. I finally gave up and pulled the plugs out and left it alone for the night.

The next night I watched a Region A movie with no problems. Right after I tried playing the Severin Region A Disc and I once again got the same message. I then tried a few other discs in the same Severin set and they all played fine. I then tried Disc One again and this time it finally worked.

What I'm wondering is did the machine recognizing the other discs in the same set "trigger" something and that's why I was finally able to play the disc that kept saying was only Region A compatible even though I was in Region A mode?

Any insight would be appreciated, since you can probably tell I don't know much about blu-ray players.

The problem is that it's in the system memory. You've switched region, but the players memory has told it to load up from where it left off, so you get the region mismatch screen. Leave it a little while and load a few other discs, then it'll be out of memory and will work.