Posted by Darkknight on 12/22/45 11:25

hardware, once your DVD drive has run out of changes normally you can't
change the region again,...........however, a risky option is to
upgrade/reinstall the firmware in your DVD drive, this normally resets
the region change counter, there is also some firmwares available that
disables the region counter,.....but, beware if the firmware upgrade
goes ape it will make your drive unusable forever

chuck wrote:
> P Pron wrote:
> > As there's a limit to the number of times you can change the region, you
>
>> might like to try http://www.dvd43.com/ which (on more or less
>> everything I've tried so far) seems to make the computer
>> "region-blind" without making permanent changes to your hardware.
>> Works fine with 'Shrink...
>>
>> paul
>
> Yes but ... does the "limit to the number of times you can change
> the region" get controlled by the hardware, the driver, or the
> software?
>
> If I put a Region 2 DVD into a Region 1 DVD drive,
> and use DVD Decrypter to copy the content of the DVD, is this
> counted against the number of times I can change the region?
>
> If it's a software thing, I can just uninstall and then
> reinstall the software to reset to zero. If it's hardware,
> I can't.
>
> chuck
>
>

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