Copy off and Play Region 1 Region 2 DVDs without Changing DVD Region Codes on Players or Drivers DVD region codes defeat many regular DVD players (usually areas-locked DVD playing devices). When playing an area code encrypted DVD (disc), the DVD player requires choosing the geographical area correspondingly to make the DVD drive play in the DVD encoded to such region. It implies that the user must first are aware of the exact region and country information with the DVD. But it's not the leading concern; what totally disappoints us will be the limitation for the region code changing times. We can just have to change the spot a fixed number of times (mostly 5), and our DVD drive will count and display the rest of the changing times. Once Changes remaining reaches zero, we cannot customize the region if we reinstall Windows or move our DVD drive to a new computer. Here's a list of DVD regions and their ranges of application (countries): Region 1 (R1): U.S.A., U.S. Territories and Canada. Region 2 (R2): Europe, Japan, the Middle East, Egypt, South Africa, Greenland. Region 3 (R3): Taiwan, Korea, the Philippines, Indonesia, Hong Kong.