Posted by Steven de Mena on 04/01/06 01:40

"Ken" <muffin@labyrinth.net.au> wrote in message
news:442D0A0D.4060904@labyrinth.net.au...
> Hi guys. Any thoughts on the following?
>
> I'm a movie buff (in Australia, which is Region 4) and get sent DVDs,
> including commercial ones, from friends around the world.
>
> But my new Acer laptop computer tells me that I must nominate just one
> Region for it to play DVDs from. (As a sop, I guess, it allows me 5
> initial plays from anywhere, but after that I must settle for whichever
> Region I finally select.)
>
> Can this unfair restriction be circumvented?

Why is it unfair?

Steve

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