Page 1 of computer DVD-Players region free?

hello all,

can a DVD-Player in a computer be set to region free?
as mine say you get 5 trys to set what region, then it will lock at the 6th time

thanks

I think that most DVD movie players like Power DVD/WinDVD allow you to change the region 5 times before the region locks itself to the last one you select. I`m not sure if DVD-Roms are the same but considering the paranoia in Hollywood regarding regions etc I would guess that there may be some drives that are limited to a few region changes.If there are locked DVD-roms I would reckon that there will probably be firmware/hacks to get around this problem somewhere on the web.

Please see the following link for downloads of firmware to make your DVD-ROM region-free:

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

If your player isn`t listed, or you don`t want to hack the firmware on your drive, then you can look for a program called DVD Genie which interacts with all the top DVD playing programs such as WinDVD and PowerDVD.

thanks for the help people!

Whoa, wait a minute.

You "must" get your DVD drive region free through a firmware patch first if it`s region protected.

You need to know if your drive is RPC1 or RPC2 and whether it can be "patched" through aforesaid firmware site;

Only then you can get your software genuinely region free through DVD Genie, Region Killer, whatever.

Please ask if you want more information.


Dave

This item was edited on Friday, 2nd August 2002, 00:05

Hi can you give me more info on this. i have windvd on my xp home edition and it has already locked. I would like to fix this but I dont know anything about computers. How do I find out if my drive is RPC! or RPC2 ( I dont even know what that means) I have my windvd set to region2 for the uk is that what your talking about?