DVD Region settings

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Qufort wrote:
> Ok, I recently bought a music DVD online from an American website and
> not surprisingly they sent me an American DVD...but I live in England
> so the Region things are all different. I played the DVD the first
> time on my PC (Windows XP) and it worked fine and it stayed in the
> player for a long time. Then when another member of the family wanted
> to watch an English DVD it changed the settings back to whatever
> region the English one is. So then when I went to play my DVD again i
> realised it wouldnt work because I'd used up all the changes. Any
> ideas how I could sort the problem out? i.e. get the changes back or
> get unlimited changes? Thanks!

I think the only thing you can do is to flash the drive's firmware, but this
is quite a risky action, because if you do it wrong, you could be left with
an unusable drive.

Perhaps invest in some software that masks the region of your drive, such
as:
http://www.dvdidle.com/dvd-region-free.htm or
http://www.dvdregionmaster.com/

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There are also players available which are "all regions" & not expensive.
I bought one 6 months ago for only abt $US45
--

johnf

> Hi,
>
> The settings can be changed maximum 5 times. And after that it sticks
> to the last regional code set in.
>
> There is no way to get out of it except go for another player and check
> if there is the option to change the settings.
>
> Regards
> M. Rajesh
> .Net and Windows Shell MVP
> www.winxpsolution.com
>
> "Qufort" wrote:
>
>> Ok, I recently bought a music DVD online from an American website and
>> not surprisingly they sent me an American DVD...but I live in England
>> so the Region things are all different. I played the DVD the first
>> time on my PC (Windows XP) and it worked fine and it stayed in the
>> player for a long time. Then when another member of the family wanted
>> to watch an English DVD it changed the settings back to whatever
>> region the English one is. So then when I went to play my DVD again i
>> realised it wouldnt work because I'd used up all the changes. Any
>> ideas how I could sort the problem out? i.e. get the changes back or
>> get unlimited changes? Thanks!