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Computers DVD player region restrictions? [Solved]

blue powderblue powder Registered User regular
edited March 2008 in Help / Advice Forum
Apparantly I can only play one sort of region at a time and have the choice to switch between the two only 5 times. I have a variety of american and Australian DVD's and this is very irritating. So is there anyway of fixing this?

Thanks a lot.

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  • TofystedethTofystedeth Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    Go to newegg. Buy a second DVD drive, put one on one, the other on the other.

    Alternatively buy a region free DVD player. I don't know if they PC DVD drives in that flavor though.

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  • TrentusTrentus Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    Here's a list of a couple of region free tools. Pretty sure the site hosts em too (if they are free) so you should be able to download from there.

    Personally, I use DVD Region Killer. No specific reason or anything. It's just what my mate gave me years and years ago, so there is possibly a better solution. When I was working tech support at a school, I noticed a lot of kids had DVD43 on their notebooks, so that might be the way to go.

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  • blue powderblue powder Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    Thanks a lot for the list, Trentus, but I'm running Vista. Will this be a problem, DVD43 says it's only for XP and 2000... I mite try it anyway.

    EDIT: I just went to its homepage and it does work with Vista. thanks again, I'll let you all know if it works!

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  • blue powderblue powder Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    Excellent, this works perfectly. For those of you searching the same problem just use DVD43. Thanks, Trentus and Tofystedeth!

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