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DVD zone changes coded in BIOS!!??
Name: Peter Laing Date: June 6, 2003 at 12:58:59 Pacific OS: Windows 98 CPU/Ram: Intel P-III, 128 MB
Comment:
I have a Compaq Presario 1800 laptop. My DVD drive has "firmware" that only allows five zone changes (USA, Europe, etc). That's a big help.
I'm afraid that this is coded in the BIOS. Is there anything I can do about this?
Name: wendal weets Date: June 6, 2003 at 13:48:16 Pacific
Reply:
I'ts not coded in BIOS, it's coded in the firmware of the actual drive. Don't know what can be done, just wanted to get you a little more on track in your research. weets
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Response Number 2
Name: madmaxUSB Date: June 6, 2003 at 19:55:05 Pacific
Reply:
As defined by the DVD standard, there're two possible places where it gets coded.
Early DVD drives coded the region change in the DVD decoder app.
Modern DVD drives count region changes and store it in NVRAM on the drive itself.
Some sites offer "modified" SW or FW but strictly speaking, that's not exactly legal ;-/
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Response Number 3
Name: kev houlds Date: June 7, 2003 at 01:34:18 Pacific
Reply:
there is something called dvd genie (free) which can override regions via software. not used it, but hear it's good. seek it out at tthe usual places. kevH
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