Posted by Franc Zabkar on 01/11/07 21:03

On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 16:15:17 GMT, prjones@spambegone (Paul Jones) put
finger to keyboard and composed:

>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

See http://forum.rpc1.org/viewtopic.php?t=239

The article states that "there are actually up to 3 region protections
on a system":

- 1 in the DVD drive
- 1 in the Operating System (windows)
- 1 in the software player (eg. WinDVD, PowerDVD...)

Region free firmware for various popular drives is available from The
Dangerous Brothers:

http://tdb.rpc1.org/

- Franc Zabkar
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