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Lena
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Location: Kentucky , USA
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 Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 3:36 am Post subject: Can I Play European dvd's on a Dell PC here in the USA ? |
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Sam_oz
FemaleFirst Senior Member (500+ Posts)
Joined: 20 Jul 2006
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Location: Sydney
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| Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 6:52 am Post subject: |
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PC DVD drives are region free at first... so they can be sold internationally without having to have specific models for each region, they allow 5 region changes before they lock to which every region disc is in the drive... unfortunately, this BS is imposed on drive manufactueres by the DVD-forum, the guys who own the rights to DVD design...
there is software out there you can use to crack your drive so its region free, but it will require both a program that will run to stop windows region pretection, and you will need to flash the drives firmware - which can destroy the drive if not done correctly...
google up "DVD region free" and you should be able to find the software youll need |
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Bipedal Male
FemaleFirst Regular (50+ Posts)
Joined: 20 Jul 2006
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Location: UK
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This works well...
http://www.slysoft.com/en/anydvd.html
No need to change firmware of drive, it does the necessary 'conversion/decryption' while the disc plays. |
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