Went out today and bought a ps3 anyway to cut things short i want it to play a set of us/ca region dvd's i bought..

Now the problem is it says wrong region i am under the impression ps3 play all regions hence me buying one..

Upto now after messing this afternoon i have gone into settings and changed the region to united states but that doesnt solve it??

anyone any ideas???

cheers in advance gerry

im assuming it might require a chip/mod only the fact i know the lazer only reads legit australian dvds/games

back on the ps2 format the aus ps2 covered UK/nz and aus games/dvds

might be different now..

my suggestion is get those dvds and get the movies off them onto your computer and reburn them in a format the ps3 can read

I don't have a PS3, but i'd say you're pretty much screwed unless you flash the firmware of the PS3, aka - putting custom based non-standard software on it.

This will almost definitely void any service support and possibly get you banned from playing online, so i wouldn't recommend it.

Or i could be completely wrong and there is a way of easily doing it ...

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PS3 games are not region protected

Blueray movies are region protected

DVD's are region protected

They are legit dvds just in usa/canada region format i got told that the ps3 would play any region dvd ie not just pal but ntsc also????

games are region free
dvd's region locked
blurays region locked (if bluray is locked to a region quite a few are free)

nope cos they are dvd's, region locked.

bummer!! i got told that it would 100% play em!!

One of the reasons i bought the ps3

how come i can select regions on the ps3 though??

online media, tv support.

Are you trying to buy cheap DVDs? You can always buy them and then rip them, they'll then play on your PS3. Alternatively you can either pay to download movies from various sites or use torrents.