On Thursday 17 April 2008 21:48:06 you wrote: > On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 20:11:51 +1200 > I know all about regionset. However, I don't want to bake my drive > into Region 4 just so that I can watch the Evangelion DVD my sister > gave me!
ah, that's right. > and that I can change it to a different region five times. yeah, that's what i saw too with both our laptops. so we're now both down to 4. hehehe. > No thanks. I'd prefer to wait for a firmware > update that will undo this region coding brain damage, or maybe I'll > just buy some other drive that I actually truly own. hehe. buying another drive is what you'd do after using up your 5 region changes :-). so you'd be doing it before you needed to. but, yes, i do see your point about truly owning the drive. do you know if there are any laptop drives that don't have region coding built-in? > Or maybe I'll just stop buying original DVD's for good. The pirates > are definitely making a superior product that gives me none of these > hassles and headaches. yeah, well. i don't have time to watch anything, really. so this isn't important for me. i just wanted to be able to have my son view DVDs borrowed from the library or from a rental store. tiger -- Gerald Timothy Quimpo [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bopolissimus.blogspot.com http://monotrematica.blogspot.com ...looking at "average" pieces of code can make me cry. The structure is appalling, and the programmers clearly didn't think deeply about correctness, algorithms, data structures or maintainability. -- http://www.technologyreview.com/InfoTech/17831 _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
