We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Dave
saying something like:

If my wife buys a DVD of last Fridays wedding, I assume it will not play
in Canada, due to the region lockout.

Will DVD de-crypt cure this problem?

Rip and burn it as an xvid .avi file - almost guaranteed to play on any
DVD player unless it's prehistoric.