Bernhard, This is not melkomyagkiy to blame for, this the DVD standard (I mean industry standard) which has only 5 changes. The background reason was, imho, to prevent 'grey market' sales. Sincerely, Sergey Orlov Electronintorg SP Ltd Marketing Dept., Tel +7-499-1554635 Tel +7-495-2280766 Fax +7-495-7873869 Mob +7-916-3929803
-----Original Message----- >From: "Bernard"<[email protected]> >Sent: 26.06.09 17:41:50 >To: "'The Moscow Expat List'"<[email protected]> >Subject: RE: Expat List dvds and windows and regions >Unfortunately, you are caught in the Microsoft trap. Typically MS only >allows a total of 5 region changes before it locks itself (and cannot be >changed again). > >The only way around this is to find and download a third party solution (my >wife did this and it cost $20-30USD. Worked very nicely) to override this >"wonderful Microsoft feature". > >I can't remember off the top of my head what the name of it was, but will >ask. > >You can search on multi-region DVD for windows > > > >Good luck! > > > > _____ > >From: [email protected] >[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michele >A. Berdy >Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 6:13 AM >To: expat >Subject: Expat List dvds and windows and regions > > > >Hi, computer-savvy, technical-minded Expatniki. I have a Russian-purchased >computer and licenced Russian Microsoft Windows (XP). In the past I could >watch either Russian region or US region DVD discs by going into Windows >Media Player and switching the region. The region chosen in that program >determined the region for the other media programs I have. Only today I >switched and then noticed that I have "used up my number of changes." That >is, Windows Media Player lets you switch back and forth X number of times >and then -- that's it. Since Windows Media Player seems to control the other > > [Message truncated. Tap Edit->Mark for Download to get remaining portion.] _______________________________________________ Expat mailing list [email protected] http://www.lists.ru/mailman/listinfo/expat http://www.expat.ru/forum/
