Posted by Gene E. Bloch on 03/31/06 21:55

On 3/31/2006, kjanus@gmail.com posted this:
> Hi all,
>
> Apologies in advance, but I've looked for answers online and I was
> hoping that someone could give me a straight answer to this common
> problem:
>
> my laptop has got a NEC ND-6450A dvd+-rw. At some point recently, the
> region limit has locked onto Region 1, which is a pain because I have a
> collection of dvd's from many different regions.
>
> Obviously I want to make the drive region-free, without screwing it up
> permanently. I've already got an RPC1 firmware flash program for my
> model #, also a DVD Region Killer program, etc etc... have also heard
> about changing the registry value to reset region changes. Haven't done
> ANY of the above yet!
>
> Anyone have advice about the simplest way to get my PC back to reading
> different regions without messing up the computer and/or running into
> other problems from my OS or other software? Either from what I've
> already thought of or possibly another solution...
>
> many thanks in advance for any advice.
> kj

The any region software (there are several; I use DVD Region-Free)
should solve your problem painlessly, though at a cost of a few dollars
($30, IIRC).

Gino

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