I have some region-free DVD player, non-computer DVD players, after some simple hacks. Sampo is the line I like from ease to hack perspective. The 613CF (Compact Flash reader included) simply needs a DVD containing a file structure with a directory. The directory name indictaes regino 0 - i.e. region free. You can google or use whichever search tool you like for region-free DVD player. That should get you started. The site I used was http://www.area450.com (they have shutdown but activity continues in forums). Rich On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 08:55 -0800, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:
On Sun, 2006-03-19 at 09:23 -0600, Alan Dowley wrote:
It would be nice if that regional coding had an expiry date. For example a DVD could be played anywhere 2 years after release. This would accomodate such market protection, while allowing full use of purchased DVDs. As it stands now, what happens when someone buys several DVDs and moves to a different area? If they move from Europe to North America, they'll likely have to buy a new player and won't be able to play their movies.
I have 2 DELL Laptops, one with WinXP (cough) and one with Linux 9.3 (hurrah). The Linux one plays DVD's from any region and does not affect the region code of the player. The windows does and lets me change it up to 6 times before it fixes to the last one. I can even run a DELL option to manually change this. As there are region free DVD players when is someone gong to come up with a way of flashing and DVD player and make it region fee???
And where would I find such a region free player? For myself i would rather play them on TV and not on the computer as the screen is getting old and is small anyway.
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