Posted by Gene E. Bloch on 01/11/07 17:38

On 1/11/2007, Paul Jones posted this:
> Whilst I've always understood the reasoning behind of DVD regions, I
> never knew whether it was the hardware or the software that had the
> "prevention" built in. My DVD player played all, so it as never an
> issue.
>
> However, now I've started to play DVDs on my PC, it seems like it
> might be an issue! I bought (yes, bought from the web, not cadged for
> free!) "Power DVD". To cut a loooong story short, it seems this
> product has a different disc for each country and the key you type in
> only works for that country. Has anyone found a way to make it work
> for multi regions, or failing that, can recommend a more flexible
> equivalent product? I don't mind paying - IF IT WORKS!
>
> Thanks for any advice.
> Paul

Either of these might do the job:

DVD Region+CSS Free
AnyDVD

Both cost money (around $30, I think). Look for a trial version...

Here's the URL for DVD Region+CSS Free:

http://www.dvdidle.com/

It's what I use (that's how I have the URL), but AnyDVD gets good
remarks in the NGs too; Google should help.

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Gene E. Bloch (Gino)
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