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3.1.1. DVD-Video Zone
Nearly all commercially-available DVD discs feature a Region Protection Code (RPC). In order to watch DVD-Video discs, the RPC needs to match the setting on the DVD player. By default, all LaCie DVD-Video-compatible drives are set to the RPC zone of the country in which it was purchased. This RPC setting may be changed using your hardware or software MPEG-II decoder (please refer to the documentation supplied with your decoder for more information). DVD-Video discs that do not feature RPC II encoding may be played on all DVD players set to Zone 1.
The worldwide RPC zones are:
Zone 1 | USA and Canada |
Zone 2 | Europe, Japan, the Middle East and South Africa |
Zone 3 | Southeast Asia (including Hong Kong) |
Zone 4 | Australia, New Zealand, Central and South America |
Zone 5 | Northwest Asia, North Africa |
Zone 6 | China |
When you insert a DVD-Video disc into your drive for the first time, the hardware or software MPEG-II decoder will detect if the setting of your drive is the same as on the DVD-Video. If not, a message will appear on your screen and you will be asked to change the RPC setting of your drive.
Important Note: You can only change the RPC of your drive four times. The RPC setting is copied into an internal component in the drive. This chip makes an average of the first five readings and sets the drive to the most read zone. After this, it will not be possible to change or reset the RPC of the drive.
Example: You change the RPC Zone to play a Zone 1 DVD-Video, and then you change to a Zone 2 DVD-Video. You switch back and forth between the zones a total of five times, twice in Zone 1 and three times in Zone 2. Your drive will then be set on Zone 2, without the possibility to reset the drive later on in order to view DVD-Video discs from Zone 1.
