Region-free your DVDs…
European, Asian and American region DVDs don’t work on UK DVD players.
There is absolutely no reason why.
MoneySavingExpert is an absolute babe for sending you to all the right places. You can google the exact make of your DVD player, and there is almost certainly a button combination or a range of settings that can be changed so that your DVD player can play DVDs from any region.
Don’t ask why it’s so simple. Or why they even do it in the first place.
But it’s literally that simple.