>> (3) Buy a cheap Apex DVD player with the "secret" key codes to turn >> off the region coding. This is what I did. (You can also turn off the >> MacroVision copy prevention fuzzing with a "secret" key code, in order >> to make decent quality tapes of commercial DVDs.) > > Do you have the model numbers? I'm attempting to watch Region 2 DVDs > in the US but no one local has a clue about a dvd player that will > show them. The best-buy assistants didn't even know what a region > was :)
I can't vouch for the legality or what, but a friend here at work who is a major gadget freak says this site has info on cracking some DVD players to remove the region coding. But they're all Sampo models I think, not Apex: http://www.area450.com/ --- Rex Baldazo --- Senior Editor --- Builder.com | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be October 26. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>.
