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fredfillis
Token Aussie
Joined: 05 Nov 2005
Location: Ozstraya
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My son's new HP laptop (Pavilion 6226US) has a region 1 DVD drive. Purchased in the US. He's taking it home to Australia and has quite a collection of PAL DVD's that he wants to watch on this computer. I thought it was going to be a simple matter to change the drive to Region 0, but .......
Anyone have any ideas on the best way ahead under Vista? Needs to be simple!
Cheers,
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aedipuss
aBigMeanie
Joined: 25 Oct 2005
Location: 666th portal
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get anydvd and let it run in the background.
or this may work on vista, it works in winxp. right click on the drive/properties/hardware/select drive/properties/dvd region tab/select new region. you get a limited number of changes then it locks in.
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fredfillis
Token Aussie
Joined: 05 Nov 2005
Location: Ozstraya
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| aedipuss wrote: |
| get anydvd and let it run in the background. |
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| or this may work on vista, it works in winxp. right click on the drive/properties/hardware/select drive/properties/dvd region tab/select new region. you get a limited number of changes then it locks in. |
Tried the second idea, Region 0 does not appear to be available.
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aedipuss
aBigMeanie
Joined: 25 Oct 2005
Location: 666th portal
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NO drive allows region 0 unless it's hacked.
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JohnnyMalaria
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Joined: 29 May 2006
Location: United States
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| fredfillis wrote: |
| aedipuss wrote: |
| get anydvd and let it run in the background. |
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| or this may work on vista, it works in winxp. right click on the drive/properties/hardware/select drive/properties/dvd region tab/select new region. you get a limited number of changes then it locks in. |
Tried the second idea, Region 0 does not appear to be available. |
You have to change it to Region 4 (for Australia).
Alternatively, if your son will end up with a collection of Region 1 and Region 4 discs and in the absence of any software to get around the region limits, just get a second DVD player for the PC - they are very cheap. Set one of them to Region 1 and the other to Region 4.
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fredfillis
Token Aussie
Joined: 05 Nov 2005
Location: Ozstraya
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Anydvd works great. Just the demo at this point. $US72, sheesh!
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Dv8ted2
The One
Joined: 26 Nov 2005
Location: OA
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| fredfillis wrote: |
| Anydvd works great. Just. the demo at this point. $US72, sheesh! |
This is a one time fee and the program is updated frequently. I paid a year ago and I still get free updates. It pays for itself after about a month. I highly recommend this program. No, I do not work for Slysoft. I don't know where you are getting $72 dollars from, it is $50. You can even try before you buy.
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fredfillis
Token Aussie
Joined: 05 Nov 2005
Location: Ozstraya
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[_chef_]
Member
Joined: 13 Nov 2002
Location: Germany
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Dude, you are in the US oder Down under.
So what do you want to deal with €uros???
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Squash
Member
Joined: 27 Aug 2006
Location: United States
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Slysoft had an announcement on their main page throughout December warning people that they were moving to Euro pricing on Jan. 1 and that this would raise the price about 40% for U.S. buyers. They also offered a 20% discount at the time but that's expired.
Glad I bought it back in 2004. The US dollar is going to hell.
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