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[lyndalorient]

Hello

What zone is the UAE in? 1 or 2
I am just packing some DVD's when it hit me that European ones might not work in the UAE. Are the UAE ones like Europe or the US ?I remember a friend of mine sent me a DVD from Algeria and it didn t work on Irish DVD players.

I was so dissapointed in New York to see such cheap DVD's to find they would not work at home.

It would be a pity if the British ones don t work as I only really like British and Irish comedies (very specialised humour like Little Britain and Fr Ted). I am not bringing an Irish laptop so ll be using a UAE DVD player if I can find one cheap.

Can my irish DVD's be transfered to an American or UAE DVD if this is the case? I know TV won t be fantastic over there and I like my movies on DVD.

Please tell me as I couldn t find anything on Google about this. Do any Europeans know from experience?

[Danica]

You could always take a multi zone DVD player with you. From memory I think the good old playstation is multi zone

[stoth1972]

I think all your DVDs will be fine. It's n. americans and japanese that can't play their DVDs on the machines used in the Gulf. Even my laptop bought in the gulf wouldn't play American DVDs. Machines there are uber cheap, though. you might just buy one when you get there and take all your faves. I would suggest putting them into a CD carrying case. Otherwise you do risk them 'possibly' taking them to be sure they're ok. Never happened to me in package luggage, though it did happen w/ shipped items.

[lyndalorient]

Thanks for the replies. Ill take a tiny CD case with some of my absolute favorite DVD's.
I know they censor fims in the cinema but is there a place to rent DVD's preferbly uncensored ones? I heard terrible reviews of a santitised "American Beauty" Oh the horror of it

[veiledsentiments]

I suspect that there will be informal trading of DVDs by the teachers once you meet a few people. Now most have satellite TV with no censorship and probably use VCRs to tape and exchange too.

Sometimes the films are so chopped up that you get to the end and you haven't a clue what it was about.

VS

[NadiaK]

I think that most DVD players here are multi-region. Easy to buy one here quite cheaply. If you get it home and find that it doesn't play a particular region, take it back and they'll fix the problem.

I'm also pretty sure that the DVDs on sale here are unedited. Not sure about the renting situation - we never do it - we just swap what we have, as VS mentioned.

[veiledsentiments]

Can DVD's even be edited?

VS

[WD40]

There is an active black market in pirate DVD's allegedly. Very cheap and quality for those not made in the cinema are as good as genuine but fat 20% of the price, allegedly.

[Stephen Jones]

Impossible to rent a DVD though you can still rent VHS tapes!

Pirate DVDs are all over the place. If you feel virtuous there is a small stock of legit disks as well, at exorbitant prices.

[globalnomad2]

Both the commercial high-end DVDs I bought from the States and my personally recorded ones from the USA work here in the UAE, at least with the several players I've used over here. They also work on my laptop, which I bought here in RAK.

[stoth1972]

Oddly enough, the laptop I bought in the UAe and brought home does not play any American DVDs.

[uaeobserver]

bring any DVD or VHS that you enjoy (except porn --- that will get you arrested).

I purchased a dual DVD-VHS player at Cost-Less. Was pleasantly surprised that it had been programmed as a multi-zone machine. I can play any DVD from any zone.