Posted by P Pron on 12/22/16 11:25

Stephen Stewart wrote:
|| "chuck" <ccREMOVEiaffone@earthlinDELETEk.net> wrote in message
|| news:TM%Qe.4185$9i4.1166@newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net...
||| 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?
||
|| It's both.
||
|| Region protection is built into your hardware but it's also in
|| Windows and potentially your playback software as well.
||
|| That's why when you make your drive region free you also need
|| software such as 'DVD Region Killer' to override the software region
|| checking.


I didn't - on several different computers, and several different drives. As
indicated above, DVD43 did the trick....

paul

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