Canadian/American CDs in Britain

[TEND]

Hey!
I have a question I hope someone here can answer. I'm not the most techno-savvy guy around, so I was just wondering if anyone could tell me if Canadian/American CDs would work on a European CD player, because I know DVDs and such won't.
Thanks for whoever answers :D

[LadyWentworth]

They should work. I have never had a problem with any imports of CDs from other countries (I'm in the US). Whenever I have sent a CD to another country, it has always worked for them. So, it should be fine for you.

[TEND]

Awesome! Thank you very much.

[TheFifthElement]

Hey!
I have a question I hope someone here can answer. I'm not the most techno-savvy guy around, so I was just wondering if anyone could tell me if Canadian/American CDs would work on a European CD player, because I know DVDs and such won't.
Thanks for whoever answers :D

Yes they should work. The reason DVD's don't work is because they are regionally encoded (i.e. region 1 - US, region 2 - Europe) which protects the cinema release, as often movies are still in the cinema's in UK and Europe when they are released on DVD in US. As this doesn't happen with CD's it won't be a problem

[Logos]

TEND, fellow Canuck :) I've sent and received CDs from a few western European countries and no problems of compatibility. When buying DVDs here? (commercial ones or blank ones you use to burn) as TheFifth said, keep in mind region codes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD_region_code). For instance a friend was only able to play a DVD I sent them on one of their DVD players but not another one, the player has to be compatible too.

[Sweets America]

As everyone said, CDs are compatible everywhere. I have bought CDs from the US. But yes, it's not the same for DVDs. Since I wanted to buy American DVD's (region 1) while I am in Europe (region 2), I had to adapt my DVD player to it. You don't have to buy a new DVD player, you can change yours. A friend of my brother's did that to my DVD player, he put a special DVD into it and my DVD was turned to region 0, meaning that it became compatible with all kinds of DVD's. I bought a Japanese DVD and that worked too.:)

[Nightshade]

Yeah but getting your hands on those converter dvds are one of the most diofficult things ever... on the other hand I find that computers tend to come regionless and fix after palying a certian region a number of times..so I just set my computer to region 0.