Mark Oates(Reviewer) posted this on Wednesday, 5th February 2003, 21:20
I`ve taken the plunge and bought my first DVD-ROM drive. Well, to be precise I`ve bought my first new computer in five years, and it`s full of all kinds of new-fangled stuff that just wasn`t around when I bought my old machine.
The DVD-ROM (I`m aiming to get a DVD writer at some point in the not too distant future) is a Samsung combo drive, the 332. I`ve been using multiregion standalone machines since my first Grundig, and I was thinking about the possibilities of multiregionality with this drive when I bought it. I`ve gone into the whys and wherefores of firmware hacking and I`m wondering - in this day and age when a plain vanilla DVD-ROM drive (not a combo) can be as cheap as £35 or so - if it wouldn`t be easier to have the combo as my D: drive, set to R2, and a second DVD drive as my E: drive set to R1? Is this a valid option?
RE: DVD ROM thoughts
Stiffler(Competent) posted this on Wednesday, 5th February 2003, 22:12
Erm ? I don`t understand... Anyway I will just make a few statements :
DVD ROMs (Some require flash) will play any region Software will limit your Region changes to 5 goes - Programs such as DVD Genie bypass this Therefore you can use any region disc as many times as you like !
Tim
RE: DVD ROM thoughts
Jim Morrison(Elite) posted this on Wednesday, 5th February 2003, 23:42
DVD Genie will only multi-region software players. Nowadays the actual drives them-sekves check regions rendering dvd genie useless.
