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Does anyone know how I can make my PC-based AOpen-DVD-player regionfree? The question comes from a computer-nitwit. If you can explain me, please mail me at amuob.ydur[at].moc.liamtoh And I will be very thankfull.

rudy

Hi Rudy

It depends which DVD Rom drive actual model you have - not all can be although I think all Aopen can - basically a clone of the Pioneer drives.

You will get a lot of info from this site http://www.7thzone.com/

However I would advise that the method used is called `reflashing the firmware` and if you are a computer novice it can seem quite difficult.

Also you need to be aware that if something goes wrong eg powercut during flash then your drive becomes junk! A small program called Driveinfo (should be available for download via 7thzone) will tell you the exact model of your drive, whether it is locked and the firmware version.

All DVD rom drives made after Jan 2000 were region locked (also called RPC1 I think).

If you are successful you will need to reinstall your player software and also perhaps you will require another program called DVD Genie (again downloadable free) to control the region of the player software itself as these also usually need to be `unlocked`.

Hope I haven`t put you off - just trying to explain :)

I made my own drive regionfree some time ago - Pioneer 114.

Faythur

:)

Heres another good site for you

http://perso.club-internet.fr/farzeno/firmware/

Faythur

:)