Which DVD-ROM Drive?

[TKH]

Should I get the AOpen DVD-1648 or Asus DVD-E616? AOpen offers no region code protection while Asus can be "refresh" the region code protection by a simple "booting" trick. I have many different region code DVDs and often swapping. And I've heard that new shipment of DVDs will not allowed to be read by a multi-region or region-free drive, is this the true? Are there any better solution for this?
Any comment is appreciated.

Plug & Play? How about Plug & Pray!

 

[ejsmith2]

There's a clonecd (Elby) program that will override the region setting. It simply does not pop up.

I dunno it it blocks the code, changes it on the fly, or disables the Powerdvd region check upon playing.

All I know is it worked the one time I tried it.

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[lhgpoobaa]

Yeah. Seach on the web for region free patches. They are pleantiful and useful.

Judging by a quick look ive had of the two drives, the asus seems slightly better, a bigger buffer and ata100 interface (even though that is pretty useless)

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[marneus]

and you dont need a bios patch, apparently by pressing the 2 buttons on the front of the drive while powering up, you reset the region change counter so you get 5 changes again...

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