I have a number of DVD movies bought from Amazon. Some of them have almost reached their maximum number of viewings and will stop playing soon.
Since this is some sort of counter written to the disc, which DVD program can I use to set this counter to zero please?
Solomon James, ,
I don't know where you heard that Solomon, but it isn't true. There's no "counter" on a DVD that records how many times it has been watched. Apart from anything else, the average DVD player isn't even capable of writing to a disc.
Are you perhaps talking about the region code setting on your player? Some players will allow you to change region codes a few times, then won't change any more,. But that has nothing to do with which disc you're playing.
The only other thing I can think of is that you aren't looking after the discs and they're getting dirty and scratched. That's a different problem again.
Please write back with more information, including which country you live in.
Paul ZuckerToddPosted: 03/08/2010
re: How can I reset the DVD counter?
Amazon and a few other retails - I think Netflix maybe.... trialed the above DVDs that degrade when the laser hits the disk, but when they did the figures and realised its cheaper to pay postage there and back and better for the environment to not have people throw away disks every day.
OP - look at AnyDVD from Slysoft it will allow you to watch any region DVD in any DVD drive as the name suggests
MikePPosted: 29/07/2010
re: How can I reset the DVD counter?
I seem to remember that there were some discs produced by one of the film companies that gradually burnt as they were viewed, something like twice? stupid attempt to limit use i suppose.
unfortunatly this was destructive and not recoverable.
I didn't know that they were still trying to sell them but----?
(Possible I guess. An excuse for copying? -PZ)