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Having recently moved to Australia from the UK I have found difficulty playing DVDs on my Tiny Computer.

Obviously the region has been fixed. Is there any way of altering the computer to play DVDs from any region. If there is, could anyone tell me in SIMPLE STEPS what I need to do.

I am fed up of borrowing DVDs from the local VideoEzy and having them not play. Conversely some are perfectly ok. I don't want to permanently change the region because of my own collection from the UK. Very frustrating.
Thanks for any advice anyone can offer me.

Hi You need to find out what make of cd drive you have in your pc, then source the internet to find a suitable firmware that has region coding disabled. Flash the cd drive
with your new firmware but bewarned unless your not an experienced pc user you might find this quite tricky to do and doing it wrong could result in your drive being dead :o .
But it is quite straight forward to do so dont be put off.

Go to Control Panel in your start menu, then click System, Hardware, Device Manager and finally DVD/CD-ROM DRIVES. You should get a little icon with the name of your drive in it. Come back and tell us and we should be able to point you in the right direction.

If you have a new computer, any drive in it will be fixed to only allow five region changes before locking up to a single region. You may be able to flash the firmware in your drive (the free option, but it does involve a very very slight risk to the drive if there`s a problem during the flashing process), which will enable software like DVDGenie to work; otherwise, download DVDRegionFree for $40. Not all drives are flashable, because there isn`t hacked firmware available for every drive on the market.


J Mark Oates