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January 5

DVD company that makes and sells Region-2 DVDs

Is there a DVD company where I can ask them to make/publish and/or release a film or tv series on Region-2 DVD after they were released on Regions 1, 3 and 4. 86.129.17.60 (talk) 20:41, 5 January 2020 (UTC)

Get or hack up a region-free player. Web search should tell you how to do that. 67.164.113.165 (talk) 23:26, 5 January 2020 (UTC)

Convenience link: DVD regions. No, because the upfront costs for even the most-obscure things will generally run at least in the five-digit USD range. (Of course, if you have that kind of money to burn, you could always start your own company and license whatever you want if you don't care about profit.) Some localization companies will let you suggest properties to license, but that's not quite the same thing; they'll only do it if enough people want something and the finances let them expect a profit. The more feasible thing for you is to buy a region-free player, or one from a desired region. Or, look into digital video services. --47.146.63.87 (talk) 06:42, 6 January 2020 (UTC)

I'm not looking for a DVD player. I'm looking for a DVD company and it's website. 86.129.17.60 (talk) 21:57, 6 January 2020 (UTC)

If a DVD made for other regions is not available in DVD region 2 (or vice-versa), it may be a copyright issue, not simply one of lack of demand. The makers of the DVD may not have had the rights to distribute the work it contains in Region 2; perhaps because they didn't want to purchase them, perhaps because the work's originator did not want to sell to them, perhaps because someone else had already bought them – see also DVD region code#Purpose. Making such a DVD for commercial release would therefore be illegal. 'All-region' DVD players tend to be overlooked in this context because they make up an insignificant portion of the DVD market (and because restricted-region DVDs can be coded not to work with them), but actual DVDs produced in defiance of copyright would certainly attract legal sanctions. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 90.204.182.54 (talk) 23:34, 6 January 2020 (UTC)

The first 2 seasons of the 1994 Fox series Party of Five had been released on region 2 only, while all the seasons were released on regions 1 and 4. So I asked Sony Pictures Home Entertainment to release the last 4 seasons or the complete series on region 2 but they haven't replied in days. 86.129.17.60 (talk) 21:46, 7 January 2020 (UTC)

Had you included this additional information in your Original Post, I would have known that the question of copyright likely did not apply, and would not have wasted time writing about a conditional possibility ("If" and "may" are clues) that, in the light of these witheld facts, is not relevant. Also, I am not so invested in the particular topic that you needed to repeat your post on my own User page (which, as I have a dynamic IP, will not be such for very long).

I wish you luck in your representations to Sony. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 90.204.182.54 (talk) 21:20, 9 January 2020 (UTC)

DVD-ROMs are made by stamping, so each (regional) release needs its own mould. This is a fairly expensive fixed cost, so they aren't going to print a DVD-ROM for only a few customers (in the way you might burn a DVD-R). Tho if there is enough fan interest, releases have been known to happen. A quicker way would be to buy the region 2 DVD and watch it on a regionless player (or a regionless computer program like VLC media player). 89.172.38.145 (talk) 07:35, 10 January 2020 (UTC)