Talk:Hot Wheels Update/@comment-27383731-20171207033928/@comment-185.9.18.150-20171207212320

@New Zealand DVD above.

Playback got stopped by simple DVD region code. When living in the US, the region code is 1 (US/Canada). The probable zone ID on your Hot Wheels DVD is 4 (South America/Oceania). Hardware DVD players will play two region codes, namely 0 (all regions) and the region belonging to the country. In other words, unless you brought your DVD player with you from New Zealand, no go.

A computer and a DVD decrypting program can help you to get the DVD region free/zone 0. Ripped to ISO, you can even mount or open in Windows Explorer and play it on your computer without having to touch the 5 zone-changes your optical hardware support (after 5 changes, it is not possible to change the zone any more unless you reset the count by hacking the drive and so is best left alone...).

In other words, your computer drive will be able to play the DVD as is unless there's been 5 zone changes already :)