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3rd Mar, 2006 at 03:11:08am

As i have DVD's on both UK and USA regions - I've just realised that whenever i swap region's; I'm reducing the amount of 'swaps' i have left (used two - down to one).

Can this be un-done in any way?

Is one option to purchase a cheap DVD writer when i'm next in the UK, and make sure I only play UK DVD's in that one - and US DVD's in the other? would that work?

Help me out in plain English please!*wink*

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3rd Mar, 2006 at 03:48:03am

On 03/03/2006 03:11:08 TurboDave said:
As i have DVD's on both UK and USA regions - I've just realised that whenever i swap region's; I'm reducing the amount of 'swaps' i have left (used two - down to one).

Can this be un-done in any way?


nope. but google your player model, there *may* be a firmware "update" for it.

On 03/03/2006 03:11:08 TurboDave said:
Is one option to purchase a cheap DVD writer when i'm next in the UK, and make sure I only play UK DVD's in that one - and US DVD's in the other? would that work?

Help me out in plain English please!*wink*


that would work, very easy to add extra drives to a computer.

the other option is to "back up" your uk dvd's useing (for example) dvd shrink to us region. and only play the backups, but tis would require a uk region reader and us region writer.

another option is to buy a cheap dvd player in the us from a brand name like liteon and set it to uk region and only use it to play uk dvd's and keep the other one for burning / playing us dvd's !

Edit : - the "backing up" of your dvd's to the us egion would allow you to play your uk dvd's in any dvd player in your house, assumign there all US ofcource.

Edited by evolotion on 3rd Mar, 2006.

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3rd Mar, 2006 at 07:32:57am

http://www.videohelp.com/dvdhacks

If you find the code on here you can make a dvd player regionless,on my one I just put a code in on the remote with the tray open


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3rd Mar, 2006 at 09:37:32am

dave, are you playing these films on a PC, or on a standalone DVD player?

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3rd Mar, 2006 at 12:22:29pm

Dave
I'm guessing from the DVD Writer comment that this question is in reference to a PC.
Try the software from the following link:
http://www.inmatrix.com/files/dvdgenie_download.shtml
DVD Genie should allow you to reset the count for switching regions.
Alternatively you could use software such as "DVD Region Free" to allow watching of any regions DVDs, however such software is chargable where as DVD Genie is freeware.

Hope this helps.

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3rd Mar, 2006 at 03:45:38pm

I use DVD region killer, which is a free little utility that keeps your drive region free.

It tends to work better with earlier DVD drives, however.

Download here-

www.digital-digest.com/dvd/downloads/dvdrk.html


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3rd Mar, 2006 at 08:11:53pm

i use any dvd its great

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