is there any way to set my PC DVD region free??

[jjyiz28]

right now its region 1, and i have like 4 more changes i can do. there is this DVD that i want to buy but its region 2, and i don't want to switch back and forth.

 

[CalvinHobbes]

VideoHelp

Oh and Google also has a ton of links.

 

[jjyiz28]

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

"""As a lot of people don't seem to be aware, patching your drive with a region free firmware is only half the trick to be completely region free.
For there exists other region counters WITHIN the software (OS, players...) that need to be bypassed.
There are actually up to 3 region protections on a system:
- 1 in the DVD drive
- 1 in the Operating System (windows) - More info on Windows region management.
- 1 in the software player (eg. WinDVD, PowerDVD...)

etc...""""


from his post he mentioned using a firmware update on their page to make it region free, then use some thing like dvdgenie to make your software player region free, but he makes no mention on the OS to make it region free. any ideas??

 

[Kirby64]

Just use VLC Player. It's an awesome all around video player(no codecs required!), and it'll play any region DVD you want it to. It just takes a couple minutes to decrypt it, and it'll run smooth as butter. VLC is so much better than any other video player. Only thing you have to do with movies is enable deinterlacing manually, or it'll look really bad.

PS: It's free

 

[WobbleWobble]

Check out AnyDVD. It works in the background, transparently breaking the protection of DVDs to any software you have running.