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Ware Bears
05-18-2007, 03:07 PM
My DVD players will only play Region 2 DVDs. I want to buy a DVD that is only available in Region 1 format. Would I be able to play this on my PC? :scratchin :confused: :confused3
mikki.young
05-18-2007, 03:13 PM
Rather depends if you have played region 2 DVDs a few times already on your PC. or if you have hacking software to make the PC multi region. Or if you have 2 DVD players and use one for each type of film. Lots of ifs and buts....
BRobson
05-18-2007, 04:28 PM
PM sent
Goofyish
05-19-2007, 06:24 AM
Usually PC DVD drives allow you to change the region code about 5 times before locking on the last region played :(
You can hack the drives firmware to make them multiregion - not sure how to do it though.
Ware Bears
05-19-2007, 03:29 PM
Usually PC DVD drives allow you to change the region code about 5 times before locking on the last region played :(
:scared1: :scared1: :scared1:
Thanks for your help everyone. :goodvibes
Tron[ADS]
05-19-2007, 04:16 PM
My DVD players will only play Region 2 DVDs. I want to buy a DVD that is only available in Region 1 format. Would I be able to play this on my PC? :scratchin :confused: :confused3
Id be very surprised if you cant press a few buttons on your remote control to make at least one of your players multi-region.
If you post your players make and model on here, Ill see if I can find the hack for you.
Although if its $ony, you may be out of luck....from what I remember, they were always swines.
Ware Bears
05-20-2007, 12:45 PM
Sent you a PM. :goodvibes
mikki.young
05-20-2007, 02:17 PM
;18748454']Id be very surprised if you cant press a few buttons on your remote control to make at least one of your players multi-region.
If you post your players make and model on here, Ill see if I can find the hack for you.
Although if its $ony, you may be out of luck....from what I remember, they were always swines.
Strangely enough we bought our DVD player from a Sony Centre and there were quite willing to sell you one ready chipped to play multi region for an extra tenner.
Tron[ADS]
05-20-2007, 06:06 PM
Yeah, its a long time since I hacked a $ony, but from memory, you use a custom remote (or a PDA using a macro in OmniRemote) that fires a set of IR instructions to it to make it multi region. A tenner is a fair price, Id have charged about the same.
Tron[ADS]
05-20-2007, 06:09 PM
Usually PC DVD drives allow you to change the region code about 5 times before locking on the last region played :(
You can hack the drives firmware to make them multiregion - not sure how to do it though.
www.rpc1.org for how to make your pc drive multi-region.
You shouldnt really need to do it though, DVD Decryptor can remove the region coding on any disk using brute-force method if it was a different region to what the drive was set to.
dvdcodes.net
Not sure if you've sorted your problem already, but I used this site to unlock my DVD Player...pretty easy!
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