Posted by Steve Roberts on 02/28/06 13:06

On 27 Feb 2006 18:36:30 -0800, "SW"
<steven.r.williams@us.pwcglobal.com> wrote:

>Apologies if this is a too-simple question. (not too simple for me, and
>that's why I'm asking here!)
>
>I want to give some DVDs to a friend who works in Brazil, but who
>doesn't have a TV. She does have a DVD player on her computer. She is
>European (Hungarian), works for a German company in Brazil. She's in
>Brazil for two years, so she'll be needing lots of movies to watch.
>
>Question: what region of DVDs should I be looking for?
>
>Are DVD players in (recent) computers region-specific? Her computer is
>likely to be German-configured (Region 2), although she is now living
>and working in Brazil (Region 4).
>
>Since I live in the US, the DVDs I'm likely to find here (movies I
>like and want to give to her) are likely to be Region 1.
>
>Any ideas?

Most modern drives are hardware locked (so called RPC-2) drives - they
can be changed a few times, but then they lock. There's also the
problem of the operating system region locks and possibly one in the
DVD player software too.

To get round this, *most* RPC-2 drives can be fooled by a software
solution. I personally use AnyDVD from http://www.slysoft.com , which
can be downloaded for a free trial to check that it works. It works in
the background to remove the region restriction. It's great on my
desktop PC, but annoyingly my Vaio laptop has one of the few drives
which it doesn't work with!

Anyway, I'd try AnyDVD and see if that works for her.

Steve

The Doctor Who Restoration Team Website
http://www.restoration-team.co.uk

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