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[fredfillis]

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,

discinfo.txt

[aedipuss]

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.

[fredfillis]

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.

Tried the second idea, Region 0 does not appear to be available.

[aedipuss]

NO drive allows region 0 unless it's hacked.

[JohnnyMalaria]

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.

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.

[fredfillis]

Anydvd works great. Just the demo at this point. $US72, sheesh!

[Dv8ted2]

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.

[fredfillis]

I don't know where you are getting $72 dollars from, it is $50. You can even try before you buy.

49 Euros. http://forum.slysoft.com/showthread.php?t=10394

[[_chef_]]

I don't know where you are getting $72 dollars from, it is $50. You can even try before you buy.

49 Euros. http://forum.slysoft.com/showthread.php?t=10394

Dude, you are in the US oder Down under.
So what do you want to deal with €uros???

[Squash]

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.