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    Bill wrote:

    > —– Original Message —–
    > From: trevor adams
    > Jean Drew wrote:
    > > Hello everyone and greetings from New Zealand
    >
    > Hello and welcome to the group.
    >
    > First a warning to those of you who live outside UK, Middle East, Western
    > Europe, Central Europe, Egypt, French overseas territories, Greenland,
    > Japan, Lesotho, South Africa and Swaziland, this is DVD region 2.
    >
    > If you live outside this area you may have equipment that will
    > possibly not
    > play these region 2 discs, (the region setting was strictly applied by
    > player makers in the beginning, however some manufacturers of DVD players
    > now freely supply information on how to disable regional lockout, and on
    > some recent models, it appears to be disabled by default.)
    >
    > In New Zealand your region is 4, along with Australia, Central
    > America, the
    > Caribbean, Mexico, Oceania and South America. Full list of regions here:
    > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD_region_code
    > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD_region_code>
    >
    > You should check you equipment can play a particular disc region
    > before you
    > buy DVDs from that region. A very useful site to get around this
    > problem for
    > many makes of player is here: http://www.videohelp.com/dvdhacks
    > <http://www.videohelp.com/dvdhacks> Many players
    > can be made region free by following the instructions, enter the player
    > make/model in the search box. Often you can find the info on the
    > makers own
    > website.
    >
    > Onedin DVDs. I bought some of my DVDs from here (they now offer the
    > first 4
    > series) http://tinyurl.com/2nox5u <http://tinyurl.com/2nox5u> (enter
    > onedin in the DVD search field).
    > The rest I got from eBay.
    >
    > Slight problem for English only speakers like myself is the bol.com
    > site is
    > in Dutch. I managed with http://babelfish.altavista.com/
    > <http://babelfish.altavista.com/>
    > I think bol.com will send to any address in the world, perhaps those
    > on this
    > list who speak the language might take a look at the site and see if
    > this is
    > so?
    >
    > There is a new release of series 1 soon which promises to be better
    > than the
    > ones on offer at the moment, these are as originally broadcast, and not
    > edited together episodes with some omissions as on the present series
    > 1 and
    > 2 DVD releases.
    >
    > I think this release is the one referred to at the bottom of page "Onedin
    > Line – Series 1 (Import) (Nog niet verschenen – U kunt deze titel
    > reserveren)"
    >
    > Series 3 and 4 are as originally broadcast. You can read about this by
    > looking at previous messages on the group's web page:
    > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/shiponedingroup/
    > <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/shiponedingroup/>
    >
    > More info from my Onedin DVDs:
    > Series 1 and 2 DVDs, are reported by DVD Decrypter software to be
    > region 1,
    > 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 (effectively they play anywhere in the world)
    > although the
    > packaging states they are region 2 only. (I would be interested to
    > know if
    > anyone else owning these discs could confirm this, or maybe I've got
    > an odd
    > batch of region free).
    > Series 3 and 4, DVD Decrypter reports them as region 2 so will not
    > play in
    > any other region.
    >
    > The new release of series 1? Perhaps someone can tell us what region(s)
    > these are when they get them?
    >
    > Bill.
    >
    > PS Take a look at my (unfinished) website at http://tinyurl.com/2z7z8v
    > <http://tinyurl.com/2z7z8v> for
    > some more about the series and links to other sites and actors info.
    >
    >

    Thank Bill.Virtually all dvd machines sold in NZ are region free. An
    $80NZ player will handle anything you can throw at it! 🙂 regards,Trevor

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