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Help!! Region free laptop?

mdrizzle · 2008-09-17 21:34:50

Hi Need some help, Ive got a sony vaio cr32 laptop and the dvd drive is locked on region 1 (U.S). Does any1 know if it can be brough back to region 2 Europe or even better making it region free? I brough up the device manager screen and it says under the DVD region that i have "0 changes remaining"? If it helps the the…

17-09-2008 9:34pm

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mdrizzle

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Hi
Need some help, Ive got a sony vaio cr32 laptop and the dvd drive is locked on region 1 (U.S). Does any1 know if it can be brough back to region 2 Europe or even better making it region free? I brough up the device manager screen and it says under the DVD region that i have "0 changes remaining"? If it helps the the drive is "MAT****A DVD-RAM UJ870QJ ATA",

I'm not a whole pile technical but if some1 can give any help it would be great.

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#2 17-09-2008 9:43pm

AlmightyCushion

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If you use vlc player (it's free) that will bypass the region lock.

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#3 18-09-2008 3:58pm

mdrizzle

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Cheers mate nice 1. That solves playin but any idea bout usin dvd shrink for backing up dvd's?

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#4 18-09-2008 4:25pm

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The software i know that can do this is illegal, and i wont give out the info here as it breaches the websites charter.

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#5 19-09-2008 9:10am

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google is your friend

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#6 23-09-2008 11:35am

mdrizzle

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Thanks every1! got it sorted

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