Around 5 years ago, I ordered a movie (The Edge Of The World) on ebay from England. It stated that it would only play in some region. I had no idea what region codes even were.
When I tried to play it, of course it would not play. I did a little research and saw where the Phillips DVD player could be hacked so it would play all regions.
I followed the instructions and sure enough, after going through the steps, it plays all regions.
The player only cost around $35 to start with. A cheap way to play all DVDs.
Since the DVD drive I received was made in Japan it’ll definitely play region 2 as that is Japan’s region . I already use the PC’s drive for Region 1 . I just hooked up the drive to my downstairs HP PC which I do not use for DVDs and it played a region 2 DVD without a problem . I cannot check to see if it will still play Region 1 via the internal drive because it was damaged when the PC fell to the kitchen floor when we were got my 7.6 quakes last April . I am a computer dummy , but it would seem logical that each drive would have its own region code so could be used in conjunction . Just want to confirm .