Re: [Hampshire] Useful utility - regionset

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Author: Ian Park
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Useful utility - regionset
Stephen Rowles wrote:
> Keith Edmunds wrote:
>> On Sat, 06 Feb 2010 11:34:16 +0000, stephen@??? said:
>>
>>
>>> vendor resets available: 4
>>> user controlled changes resets available: 4
>>>
>> Be aware of what this means: you can only change the region five times in
>> total, then that's it, it will stay in the last region set. Rumour has it
>> that the change count can be hacked, but I've no experience of that.
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD_region_code#Computer_DVD_drives
>>
> Yeah, I know there are only 4 resets available.. but seeing as I was
> unable to watch the dvd at all, and I only own region 2 dvd's, it seemed
> like a good idea to me :).
>

Given the pretty low cost of DVD drives, this looks like a reason for
having two drives, one of which can be set to region 1 and the other to
region 2...

Ian
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