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    Question regarding DVD Drive and Region Code

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by ChaosKye, Aug 2, 2007.

  1. ChaosKye

    ChaosKye Notebook Consultant

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    My older computer did not have a DVD drive on it (it was very very old) and I noticed that when looking at the Device Properties for my Dell Inspiron 1420 you can only change the Region coding 5 times. I was wondering if this was hardware based, or software based because I didn't know of this limitation before. I could see this possibly being a problem since I happen to have movies from Japan and China as well which are a different region coding than the US.

    Does anyone have any ideas?

    Is this only for Dells or only for certain manufacturers or Vista perhaps? Sorry if this thread is a little bit out of place
     
    ChaosKye, Aug 2, 2007
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  2. killer23d

    killer23d Notebook Geek

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    Unfortunately, all DVD optical drives sold in North America (AFAIK) has the region protection. The only way to defeat it is to flash with hacked firmware (REALLY depend on what model), or use software such as AnyDVD to override the region.

    The worst part, the DVD optical drives has a speed lock on commercial DVDs. Dell claims it reduce the spinning noise when watching a movie, in reality, they are there to ensure it will take forever to copy a DVD at 3x.
     
    killer23d, Aug 2, 2007
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