On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 07:30, Tony Green wrote: > On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 05:37, John McQuillen wrote: > > On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 23:23, JM Alonzo wrote: > > > > > > > > fixed it. i set the region of the drive to 4. so setting it to 0 means i > > > can use it to play dvds from any region right? thanks a lot. > > > > > Yes, but be careful, some drives only allow 4 or 5 changes to the > > region, so if you intend playing discs from multiple regions, you are > > best to set the region to 0 and leaving it that way. > > > > Not entirely true (AFAIK). Older style region protection will allow > play on a region 0 player. However the newer style protection (Charlies > Angels/Patriot/Perfect Storm) force you to have the right region. > > This is the difference between 'multi region' and 'region free' dvd > players. > > Interestingly enough, my Vaio can play dvd's from any region without any > modifications....... > Mmmmmm, I can't test Patriot or Perfect Storm, but my copy of Charlies Angels plays fine on my DVD-ROM set to region 0.
Regards, John. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
