On Thu, 19 May 2005 19:53:57 -0500, "jakdedert"
wrote:



The combo drive on my laptop (DVD-ROM/CD-R) has a utility to change the
region, but when you enter it, it pops a dialogue which says something to
the effect that you can do it 'x' number or times, then there's no way to
change it back.

jak



Isn't it great what happens when the movie industry and the
electronics industry cooperate? Things like this just interfere with
normal people's use of technology while doing nothing to stop illegal
copying.

There are ways around that limitation on many DVD drives. You can
replace the firmware with a region free firmware which eliminates the
region counter. Windows and DVD playback software still keeps track,
but there are software tools to work around that.

See if your drive is listed he

http://forum.rpc1.org/portal.php
Andy Cuffe

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