DVD encoding?

[Tempistfury]

Simple question which no one seems to be able to answer >.<

Are Computer Games which are put on DVD's subject to the whole Regional encoding like video DVDs? Simply Put, since I live in America, Can I get a Video game sold on DVD from say, the UK or Germany and play it here?

 

[greatatlantic]

I bought a game from the bargain bin in France and it played stateside just fine. The manual, however, was French.

I don't know about DVD games, though.

 

[Montez]

I have used UK-Only game DVD's before, so yes, you can use them. Region encoding is strictly for video dvd's - a game dvd is just a data dvd, which can be used by anyone.

 

[Lord 342]

Regions on DVDs in fact only tell the player something; it's just a bit or two telling the player which region it's from. In fact DVDs don't have a native video format, all that's done in the player. If you have a region-free player, or buy a region-free disc, it will play in PAL from a PAL player and NTSC from an NTSC player. Macrovision is the same way, it's in the player, and only a bit on the DVD tells the player to turn it on or not. That too can be easily taken out of the player if, say, you have one of the old TVs that cannot stomach Macrovision.