Page 1 of Help needed with PowerDVD 5.0 on PC.

This has got to be a fairly common complaint. We`re using this to drive DVD playback on our PC with Windows XP. It had been set to play all regions in the menu, but we have been watching mainly R2 stuff recently. Today I`ve tried to play a R1 disc, but it`s telling me it`s locked into R2 playback only. According to the help in the software it only asks you 5 times which region you prefer before it locks one! How stupid, to have a player fully capable of multiregion playback that stubbornly refuses to do so. Anyway, does anyone know a way to get around this, and restore it`s full compatibility/ capability? Thanks.

Hi

You could go to the website http://www.dvdidle.com and get the free download [30 days ] or one of the payfor versions.

ps the free one works fine for me [30 trial but may work longer and 2 versions lite or normal]

bye

R.B

This item was edited on Tuesday, 12th July 2005, 19:46

Another software way of doing it is AnyDVD but it`s not free.

Alternatively you can flash the firmware of your DVD drive to make it region-free if you can find it for your model and then use DVD Genie to patch PowerDVD or whatever player you`re using (free.)


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there are a lot of "hacking" software to make a dvd player region free you could try AnyDVD or dvdshrink

http://www.megagames.com/news/html/cdr/dvdshrink32.shtml

http://www.megagames.com/news/html/cdr/anydvd5272.shtml

This item was edited on Friday, 15th July 2005, 14:07