4 Ways to Watch Region-locked Blu-ray & DVD Movies

With the Blu-ray and DVD region restriction, you can only play a Blu-ray or DVD with the same region code as your Blu-ray or DVD player. If you accidentally buy a DVD that has a region code that doesn’t match your player, then you’re going to have to accept the fact that you are not able to play the disc on your machine without doing some extra works. This is really bothering for most movie lovers who watch movies lot in their daily life and region lock would be quite troublesome. But no worry, today, I going to show you 4 ways to watch region-locked Blu-ray and DVD movies with the help of some tools and the methods would be a continuous helper for you.

1. Remove Region Code to Get Region-free Blu-ray Disc

To clarify, there’s basically nothing we can do about the original Blu-ray disc, what we can do is make an exact copy of the disc that has no Blu-ray region codes on it. If you want to make a region-free copy of your region-locked disc, below are the things needed in the copying making process.

When you can’t reprogram the region code on the disc, you can use a program called Leawo Blu-ray Copy to make a lossless copy of your Blu-ray disc and remove the Blu-ray region code on it while doing so. Leawo Blu-ray Copy is designed to help users back up their Blu-ray discs with ease. It can make 1:1 copies of all kinds of Blu-ray/DVD discs as well as compress BD50 to BD25, DVD-9 to DVD-5.

2. Remove Region Code to Get Digital Video Files

Instead of spending more money on buying a blank Blu-ray disc, you can also get the digital video content from the original Blu-ray disc. Here, in order to obtain the digital form of the Blu-ray disc, an additional ripping program has to be prepared. That is Leawo Blu-ray Ripper. Leawo Blu-ray Ripper is able to rip Blu-ray and DVD to 180+ video or audio with 100% original quality and 6X faster speed. With Leawo Blu-ray Ripper, you can personalize the Blu-ray movies including file merging, media editing, 3D movie creating, parameter adjusting, etc. with the best output quality.

3. Play All Region-locked Blu-ray with Region-free Player

If you would like to enjoy Blu-ray and DVD movies on a standalone Blu-ray player and if you have enough expense, you can purchase a standalone Blu-ray player that can easily support all kinds of Blu-ray discs, such as Sony BDP-S6500 Upgraded Multi-Region Zone Free Blu-Ray DVD Player and Samsung BD-H5900 Upgraded Wi-Fi Multi Region Zone Free Blu-ray DVD Player – PAL/NTSC 10. Both of them are high-end region-free Blu-ray players that pack all the latest features.

If you just want to play Blu-ray and DVD movies on your computer or laptop or you don't have the abundant budget for standalone Blu-ray players, you can try some pieces of region-free Blu-ray player software. Here, you should not miss Leawo Blu-ray Player. As one of the most advanced and professional Blu-ray player software, Leawo Blu-ray Player is totally free for use, while at the same time, it can be able to provide the solutions for Blu-ray as well as 4K files with ease and accuracy. It can also easily decrypt the region code protections directly without affecting any quality of the original videos.

4. Hack your Blu-ray player

It is indeed possible to make your Blu-ray player region free through some technical procedures. I say it is possible because it’s not guaranteed that you can hack your Blu-ray player to make it region free. Some Blu-ray player manufacturers leave a back door for removing the region code, while others don’t allow users to heck their players at all.

The way to hack a Blu-ray player could be very different from model to model. Fortunately, there is a place where you can find exactly how to hack you are Blu-Ray player to make it region free, and that is the VideoHelp forum. Go to the forum, and then go to the DVD hack section. All you need to do is to type in model of your DVD or Blu-ray player and then search for the hack for your model. If you are lucky enough, you will find a very detailed instruction to unlock the region code for your player.

Words in the end

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