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<blockquote data-quote="Marcusb" data-source="post: 64406" data-attributes="member: 11550">Some of the bigger releases have a special type of copy protection that causes this issue.&nbsp; It's a way to prevent disks playing on multizone systems when the disk is region coded.What they do is code the menu screen for the DVD to be the number of the current zone.&nbsp; For example, a disk coded for region 4 (Australia) will have the menu at 4.&nbsp; When the DVD player looks for the menu, the disc says &quot;Go to the number of your current region&quot;.&nbsp; If the player is zone free then it won't find the menu.&nbsp; If the player is coded for region 4 then it will find the menu.&nbsp; Disney was also pretty big on this type of &quot;protection&quot;.This is why most multizone players allow you to manually set the zone if needed.&nbsp; I don't know why, but this protection never caught on to the majority of DVD's.&nbsp; I guess the licence costs are high.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Marcusb, post: 64406, member: 11550"] Some of the bigger releases have a special type of copy protection that causes this issue. It's a way to prevent disks playing on multizone systems when the disk is region coded. What they do is code the menu screen for the DVD to be the number of the current zone. For example, a disk coded for region 4 (Australia) will have the menu at 4. When the DVD player looks for the menu, the disc says "Go to the number of your current region". If the player is zone free then it won't find the menu. If the player is coded for region 4 then it will find the menu. Disney was also pretty big on this type of "protection". This is why most multizone players allow you to manually set the zone if needed. I don't know why, but this protection never caught on to the majority of DVD's. I guess the licence costs are high. [/QUOTE]

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