DVD play

[Michael Raine]

It used to be that only the DVD hardware accelerator or software player
would be "region locked". This could be changed relatively easily by
software that modified the registry entries for the device. Now, new drives
are also supposed to be region locked. But many ship with this lock
"unlocked" and others can be unlocked by changing the "firmware". Not as
easy as before but not too complex and afterwards invisible.

Michael
----- Original Message -----
From: Lang Thompson <wlt4 at mindspring.com>
To: <KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2000 7:35 PM
Subject: RE: DVD play


> >Another option? Get a DVD drive for your PC, and use a software player to
> >watch movies. The DVD player there can be set to Region 2 while you can
> >leave your main DVD player for Region 1 (for those of us in the USA).
I've
> >done this for a while now.
>
>
> & this has worked so far?  I've heard that some PC DVD drives allow for
> five region changes and then they lock permanently into the most recently
> used region (though considering how easy it can be to change software
> perhaps this is easy to correct).
>
> LT
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