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Old 9th August 2008, 16:15   #1 (permalink)
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DVD Writer/Player Zone locked in
Hello All
The DVD writer/player on my PC is locked in on a certain zone and will now only play DVDs from that zone. Makes no difference if I use MediaPlayer, Quicktime etc.
Any ideas on how to get around this?
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Old 9th August 2008, 16:31   #2 (permalink)
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DVD Genie may help.
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Old 9th August 2008, 17:25   #3 (permalink)
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The Slysoft product AnyDVD will make most drives appear region-free. Drives that definitely won't work include anything by Matsushita. Depending on your drive, you may be able to flash it to region-free.
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Old 9th August 2008, 18:31   #4 (permalink)
 
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It's a ms windows thing. Never know why this was introduced. After changing the region/zone (dvd) I think it's about four times or maybe a little more, it then locks to that region. One can get a 'code' from ms to unlock and start again.

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ps. That's what it says in my HP user guide. Windows XP
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It's a ms windows thing.
It's a DVD drive thing: the drive will behave the same in any OS.
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Old 11th August 2008, 08:54   #6 (permalink)
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Not sure if I'm doing it right, but with the DVD Genie I still can't get it to work? Any ideas?

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Old 11th August 2008, 11:00   #7 (permalink)
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DVD Genie requires the drive itself to be region free. It won't help you.
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