Region Killer

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NindianZ

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#62255 2-Jun-2010 16:21

Hi Guys,

Any ideas for killing the DVD region restrictions on a PC?

Running Vista.

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#337428 2-Jun-2010 16:30

Try Anydvd by slysoft.. works really well

edit: as long as your dvd drive is not a matash1ta.. if it is then your out of luck! looks in device manager and see what "actual" brand your dvd drive is.. what it says on the fraceplate of the dvd drive means nothing.

edit 2: feel free to remove my post if you feel it breaks that rule..

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#337429 2-Jun-2010 16:30

That would be circumventing security measures, which we cannot tell you how to do.

From what I have "heard", there "may" be a media player which ignores the restrictions.

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#337448 2-Jun-2010 17:01

The OP wants to remove DVD restrictions from his PC....didnt say what for... so I dont see it a problem him asking.
Plenty of legitimate software out there to do such things anyway, if it was illegal to remove the restrictions form your PC those developers wouldnt be in business.

Now if he had said "I want to remove regions from my DVDs" then it starts getting a bit more "dodgy".

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#337455 2-Jun-2010 17:18

I was under the impression VLC (https://videolan.org/) does not bother with the region when playing DVD's ?
Might be easier than playing with the "hardware" settings

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Lee

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#337464 2-Jun-2010 17:41

xpd: The OP wants to remove DVD restrictions from his PC....didnt say what for... so I dont see it a problem him asking.
Plenty of legitimate software out there to do such things anyway, if it was illegal to remove the restrictions form your PC those developers wouldnt be in business.

Now if he had said "I want to remove regions from my DVDs" then it starts getting a bit more "dodgy".

DVD restrictions are put in place to stop DVDs from being played in a region for which they were not intended. Obviously, you are able to up the 5? changes, and you can buy multi-zone home theatre DVD players.

IMO the OP is wanting to circumvent this security feature. Unless you can provide another reason as to why this feature was put in place, and why the manufacturers do not unlock it for you? I will assume breaking it, is circumventing their security measures, regardless of their reason.

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#337465 2-Jun-2010 17:42

http://www.dvd43.com/

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#337477 2-Jun-2010 18:03

rscole86:
DVD restrictions are put in place to stop DVDs from being played in a region for which they were not intended. Obviously, you are able to up the 5? changes, and you can buy multi-zone home theatre DVD players.

IMO the OP is wanting to circumvent this security feature. Unless you can provide another reason as to why this feature was put in place, and why the manufacturers do not unlock it for you? I will assume breaking it, is circumventing their security measures, regardless of their reason.

IMO, the region encoding is not a "security feature" per se - it's a mechanism to control distribution.

Having said that, I wouldn't (personally) really want to convince a court that removal of the region encoding is or is not a security feature - thus not giving detailed information is the correct course of action in this forum.

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#337479 2-Jun-2010 18:16

Apparently unless I'm missing something newer...

Under New Zealand copyright law, DVD region codes and the mechanisms in DVD players to enforce them have no legal protection

http://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1994/0143/latest/DLM346899.html

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#337492 2-Jun-2010 19:01

I would think that region coding is not a big deal since you can buy region free dvd players so whats the big deal in making your pc drive the same. I have been using the same program for this purpose on my pc for years DVD Region+CSS Free. I do not care what where and why they region code but since my mother in law goes overseas several times a year I find it good to have my htpc setup as a region free player.

If you follow the what movie did you last watch thread you would see from my posty last night i watch a lot of movies. Not all bought in NZ not all I have even seen in the video shop or stores (of course once you have a item you generally don't look for them anymore).

If I have broken any rules for suggesting he use this program then i am sorry it was not intentional and my comment can be removed easily if that is the case.

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#337744 3-Jun-2010 12:26

If you want realtime DVD Region Code killing, there's something called PassKey from the people who make DVDFab (they made DVD Region+CSS Free, then obsoleted it, then re-released it under a new name and are charging people who already bought it again for the same product).