DVD playback failure.

[rivel]

I am having a problem playing back one particular DVD on my Panasonic DVD recorder/ LG TV.

When it loads the following message comes up on the TV screen:
Warning: Incompatible TV system setting!
I have tried every AV setting on the TV but nothing works.

The display on the DVD recorder shows:
READ
PLAY
NO PLAY
STOP

Other DVDs work perfectly well.

I have tried the DVD on my laptop.
It intially asked if I wanted to change the region setting, then it worked OK.
It also worked on a portable TV with built in DVD player, and on my desktop.

Can anyone suggest what else I could try to resolve the problem?

[ChuckFickens]

Well it sounds like it's not a region 2 DVD, in which case you need to either change your DVD player for a multi region one, hack the DVD player so it will play all regions DVDs or just forget about playing it. if you post the full model of the DVD player somebody will see if it's easy to hack the DVD player.

Incidentally, you've now changed the region of your computer DVD drive so next time you put a UK (region2) DVD in it's going to ask you to change it again, you only get 5 changes of region in total before the drive is locked to the what ever region the 5th change took you to, so I'd suggest changing it back to region2 and then don't ever change it again.

[rivel]

Thanks ChuckFickens.
The DVD recorder is model DMR-EX75

[ChuckFickens]

Doesn't seem like it's that easy.... have a read through here...

http://www.seajays.org.uk/ex75faq/

Sections 3.4 and 5.1 are relevant to you (although due to your computer asking you to change its region when you put the DVD in that I don't think 3.1 applies in this instance)

[rivel]

Thanks again ChuckFickens.
Problem solved!
I can't believe I didn't think of it - the timer recording was set.
When I switched it off the DVD worked fine.
What a relief.
Thanks.