can yo make a PC DVD player multi region

NeVeR

Is there any way to make your PC's DVD player multi region?

silverside

yes, you will prob need to flash the firmware, stick your dvd drive name into google to see is multiregion firmware available. BE CAREFUL.
you may need to update the software on your pc as well but i dont know much about that.

silverside

your site is not too bad BTW but could do with a bid of tidying up and running through a spellchecker. Just in case you wanted any advice

NeVeR

thank...

Hey can you do me a favour.. I copied the text into Word and ran a spell check and it didnt pull up anything .. canyou tell me what you seen. might just be bad gammer or something i dont know.

tuxy

this works on all dvd players but is not free http://www.dvdidle.com/index.htm

Civilian_Target

If your DVD drive is on this site, you can flash it with a floppy disk, making it region free forever. This applies to both DVD-ROMs and movies. Worked for me.

http://forum.rpc1.org/

silverside

graphics are good, just the text itself
use of capitals, where versus were, use of apostrophes, capitalisation, etc etc
don't want to be pedantic but it looks kind of unprofessional
i know i'm not great for it myself

'eats shoots and leaves' would be worth a look, or if you have any brothers or sisters at school borrow their grammar book and/or get them to read over it.

tuxy

since when do dvd roms have regions?

tuxy

Originally posted by silverside
graphics are good, just the text itself
use of capitals, where versus were, use of apostrophes, capitalisation, etc etc
don't want to be pedantic but it looks kind of unprofessional
i know i'm not great for it myself

'eats shoots and leaves' would be worth a look, or if you have any brothers or sisters at school borrow their grammar book and/or get them to read over it.

wtf are u blabering on about?

silverside

Civilian_Target, is it possible to do as you suggest if your PC doesn't have a floppy drive? I was thinking of making a boot CD but that probably won't work either if the only optical drive is the DVDR which you want to flash!

tuxx I was giving some advice about his website which he links to in his first mail. It is irrelevant to the main thread about dvdrs so just ignore it.

John R

Take a look here for a guide to unlocking. http://www.doom9.org/rpc1.htm

There are also region checks in windows and player software to be bypassed, look here for info. http://forum.rpc1.org/viewtopic.php?t=239

Tivoli

updating firmware is dangerous, power failure or a bad download will make your dvd rom a paper weight -but what the hell enjoy the fear of watching the flash progress

as for school irrelevence
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po0k

The comma after "site" should be a fullstop also, otherwise the "The" should have small t.

RE: flashing the drive if you don't have a floppy.
plonk the .bin on your C:\ root directory.
Reboot into command-prompt-only mode (Win2K) or DOS (Win9x) and execute the flasher program with the binary file.
Tbh, the firmware for drives are generally alot smaller than those for BIOSs and so as you're writing for a shorter period of time (dependent on the ROM technology used in the drive/board etc. of course) the risk is lower.
Also, afaik alot of newer drives can be recovered from failed firmware flashes.

El_MUERkO

Did everyone get that damn panda book for christmas?

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This might be of some help

http://www.inmatrix.com/files/dvdgenie_download.shtml

Stephen

Yeah, most Pioneer DVD writers have a seperate section of the firmware that will kick in if the main firmware gets trashed in a failed flash, allowing it to be flashed again.

NeVeR

I work for Pioneer Ireland.

I'll ask one of my guys to do it for me,

Col_Loki

You could always get DVD region free ....... http://www.dvdidle.com/dvd-region-free.htm and use it when you upgrade your PC or on your other PC's. Its brilliant, works in the backround and no risk involved.

Price is a little mad since you can get another drive for that!!