Help - DVD regions

[Steve Crook]

Originally Posted by Arthur Linden-Jones Also happens with some other full versioned proprietary purchased software, like InterVideo's WinDVD. But there's this wonderful little program called DVD Genie .....

Yes, it's basically the case that the only thing that will do any region locking on the DVD player on your computer is Micro$oft's Media Player.

As is so often the case, the Micro$oft solution isn't the only solution and isn't the best solution. But because it comes bundled with the system it's the only solution most people are aware of

Steve

[brianl]

Originally Posted by Steve Crook The man in the store is misleading you slightly. It is true that the region code will be locked if you play 6 different DVDs - but only if you use the Micro$oft Media Player. It's the Media Player that locks it and won't let you play things in different regions, it's not the hardware of the DVD player that locks anything. If you use a free to download player like the VLC Media Player then that does everything that the Micro$oft one does but you don't have to put up with all the nonsense that Micro$oft tries to force on you - as is so often the way Steve

Thanks Steve - much appreciated.
BrianL
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