[78-L] Playing European DVDs ^

[Mark L. Bardenwerper, Sr.]

Michael Biel wrote:
> From: "Mark L. Bardenwerper, Sr." <citroenid19 at sbcglobal.net>
>
>   
>> Keep in mind that most computer DVD player/burners will only
>> allow you to do this a limited number of times. 
>>     
>
> But what we are discussing is making a stand-alone DVD player
> permanently Region-Free, not changing a drive from one region to another
> and then back again.  Once the entire machine is Region-Free it ignores
> the region code and the drive will play any region disc and switch an
> unlimited number of times.  You can play hundreds of different region
> discs going back and forth between regions without any effect on the
> machine.
>   
Yes. I see that.
>   
>> I am in the US. I have a few documentaries sent from England,
>> recorded off BBC television on Citroens I had to do this with.
>>     
>
> If these were discs that had been recorded off the air on a home
> stand-alone DVD recorder, most likely they were recorded Region-Free. 
> I've never seen an amateur recording machine with an option to insert a
> region code.  Only commercially produced discs have a region code, and
> many of these made outside the U.S. are actually Region-Free.  Did you
> try playing the discs on your normal DVD player?  If they were home
> recorded, they probably would have played.
>   
Not only did they have region coding, but they were in PAL. I had to 
convert that too, with fairly good results. I found a converter program 
that I have long since lost. Ask me to do it again and I would probably 
have to go through a week of fooling around like I did the first time!
>   
>> In Windows XP, go to Control Panel/system/hardware/device manager/DVD-CD 
>> Rom Drives. Drop down to the particular drive you wish to change. right 
>> click on Properties. Look for the DVD Region tab. change there.
>>     
>
> You probably used up your limited number of changes unnecessarily.
>   
I don't know. I won't be doing it again, I suppose.


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