Posted by P Pron on 01/13/69 11:40

Michael Mason wrote:
|| Hi everyone,
||
|| I have an LG DVD-RW drive. A buddy of mine bought a DVD online that
|| turned out to be from the UK. He asked me to copy it for him so he
|| could watch it on his DVD player here in Canada.
||
|| To my surprise, when I fired up DVD Shrink, it told me that it could
|| read the disk if its region setting were changed... something that
|| could only be done 4 more times.
||
|| Why?
||
|| What happens when it's 0 more times? Does it remain "stuck" in that
|| region setting?
||
|| Is it the program that manages this or does it "flick a switch" in
|| the drive's firmware that keeps track of the changes? If so, is
|| there something I can do to "reset the counter" if and when the need
|| arises?
||
|| I don't think that this is a long-term issue, but I want to make
|| sure that if I do end up getting something on EBay or find something
|| interesting on amazon.co.uk that isn't available in the US and I
|| want to watch it on a NTSC DVD player, that I won't be crippling my
|| equipment in the process.
||
|| Thoughts? I can't seem to find anything on this subject using a
|| traditional google search.
||
|| THanks,
|| Mike

Have a look at http://www.dvd43.com/ - it's free, and should do the trick

paul

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