How do you change regions on Laptop?
08-05-06, 10:08 PM
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How do you change regions on Laptop?
I use my laptop all the time to play other region dvds,as well as a player,but the player is in the room I'm in the least. I'm wondering how you can change it back to playing all,after it says 0 Times before change is permanent. It will now only play Region 1 dvds. The DVD program I use on my laptop is InterVideo WinDVD4. Any help and I will be most grateful.
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08-06-06, 05:53 AM
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Once it's locked I don't think there is an easy way to unlock it. Look for a program called VLC though. It's not the nicest player in the world but it will play other regions w/o checking/modifying the hardware region code 
08-06-06, 07:43 AM
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Another good free program for "fooling" the region code on your laptop is Region Killer available free at regionkiller.com (I think, if this doesn't work, Google it).
08-06-06, 09:13 AM
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08-11-06, 05:13 AM
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Originally Posted by InnocentBlood
i'm having the same issue with my mac powerbook. VLC doesn't work for me 
anybody using a mac powerbook here? how do you get past this?
anybody using a mac powerbook here? how do you get past this?
08-11-06, 08:22 PM
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I tried RegionKiller and still see the region-change counter warning popup. Does this tool prevent the Region-Change counters from being decremented? Also its instruction says that it requires a region-free (non RPC2) drive which seems to defeat its whole purpose. What am I missing?
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08-12-06, 08:25 PM
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AnyDVD works with me too, but it's not free (the update speed is almost like that for the antivirus definition files).
Flashing the firmware is another way but you need to find the one for your drive. Here
http://forum.rpc1.org/portal.php?page=1
you can check whether your drive has the patch for region free or not.
Flashing the firmware is another way but you need to find the one for your drive. Here
http://forum.rpc1.org/portal.php?page=1
you can check whether your drive has the patch for region free or not.
08-12-06, 09:20 PM
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Originally Posted by RudeBoie
Remote Selector crashes my version of WinDVD7. Poop. Will check out AnyDVD and RegionKiller
08-15-06, 12:19 PM
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I've been using VLC for playing non-R1 DVDs on my WinXP laptop. Because of its functional versatility its user-interface might be a bit too geeky and tedious for the purpose of a simple region-free player, but it is a great software player as I have yet to come across a disc that it cannot play.
08-16-06, 12:49 AM
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Try DVD43 (http://www.videohelp.com/tools?tool=DVD43) works great for me.
08-21-06, 01:02 AM
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Originally Posted by TNAJason
I use my laptop all the time to play other region dvds,as well as a player,but the player is in the room I'm in the least. I'm wondering how you can change it back to playing all,after it says 0 Times before change is permanent. It will now only play Region 1 dvds. The DVD program I use on my laptop is InterVideo WinDVD4. Any help and I will be most grateful.
You can download it for a free 21 day trial from slysoft.com
08-21-06, 08:43 PM
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Originally Posted by nemein
So you've tried and it's not working? It's just kind of strange since it was a Mac user who originally told me about the program. Is it an older machine/non-OSX?
my DVD drive is matshita UJ815.
anybody has the similar config as mine and facing the same problem?
08-21-06, 10:20 PM
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You can't change regions using your DVD drive. Certain Matshita drives (mainly used on Apple and IBM/Lenovo laptops) are designed so that existing region-free hacks don't work.
If you really need region-free operation on your laptop, you'll have to get an external drive.
If you really need region-free operation on your laptop, you'll have to get an external drive.
08-22-06, 12:30 AM
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Originally Posted by GHackmann
You can't change regions using your DVD drive. Certain Matshita drives (mainly used on Apple and IBM/Lenovo laptops) are designed so that existing region-free hacks don't work.
If you really need region-free operation on your laptop, you'll have to get an external drive.
If you really need region-free operation on your laptop, you'll have to get an external drive.
08-22-06, 07:33 AM
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yes i do remember a previous version of VLC working for me on an older powerbook that i had before i got this current one. i had no idea that this newer version of VLC would give me such a problem...
