DVD REGION SETTING PROBLEM-LAPTOP

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ButterflyXXX

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I recently bought dvds from the United States. Their regional settings are 1. So I changed my settings from 2 (SOUTH AFRICA) to 1 (in the meantime the dvd region window cautions that I have 2 region changes remaining ‘’YOU CAN CHANGE THE DVD REGION A LIMITED NUMBER OF TIMES, AFTER CHANGES REMAINING REACHES 0, YOU CANNOT CHANGE THE REGION, EVEN IF YOU REINSTALL WINDOWS OR MOVE YOUR DVD DRIVE TO ANOTHER COMPUTER). After watching the movie, I put in a region 2 dvd and the following happened:

YOUR SYSTEM IS SET TO REGION 1 (duh no kidding). TO PLAY THE DVD, SET YOUR SYSTEM TO REGION 2 OR 4.

Which I clicked ‘’OK’’, then, then scrolled down to SOUTH AFRICA (bear in mind I still have one change remaining) and select it. Then the following comes up:

THIS IS YOUR LAST CHANCE TO CHANGE THE REGION SETTING ON YOUR DVD DRIVE. ARE YOU ABSOLUTELY SURE YOU WANT TO PROCEED? IF YOU ANSWER OK YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO CHANGE THE REGION SETTING ANYMORE EVEN IF YOU REINSTALL THE OPERATING SYSTEM.

So I click OK (ps, this is NOT the first time I’ve changed the region setting!! And it never gave problems before). So the following error message pops up:

UNABLE TO UPDATE REGION SETTING. THE DRIVE REPORTS THAT IT REQUIRES MEDIA OF THE DESTINATION REGION (REGION 2) SO PLEASE INSERT APPROPRIATE MEDIA AND TRY AGAIN.

UMMMMM, I already do have a region 2 disc in the drive, and I have tried others AAANNNNNDDD I have rebooted and tried again and still the same error. And unless my maths fails me, having 1 region change still available, that means I should be able to change it this one last time.

Oh and my laptop came with WINDOWS VISTA HOME PREMIUM and the window that comes up to change the region is PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-K17A ATA DEVICE PROPERTIES. I have a Toshiba laptop and use the Windows media player (and/or the Toshiba DVD player to watch dvds)

Could someone please help?!?!
 
Download DVDDecrypter to remove the stupid limitations from the DVD. Then you'll either have to mount the iso it creates with Daemon Tools (ideal) are write it to a DVD (not ideal).

The other method is to use a program called AnyDVD (from SlySoft I think)...this decrypts it in the background.

And finally you can search the interwebs for a hack that will reset the DVD region count on your dvd drive (dangerous).

I'd suggest going the DVDdecrypter+Daemon tools +VLC player route. You should have left it on SA DVD region...now you will have to unpack a bag of tricks every time you want to watch a dvd.:(
 
ok, thanks.

but what if I told you I'm not a computer fundi, and some of what you said is le francais :)
Like, what the heck's an "iso", a "daemon"?

And why must I reset the dvd reg. count, i have one 'life' left?
 
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ButterflyXXX said:
but what if I told you I'm not a computer fundi, and some of what you said is le francais :)
Like, what the heck's an "iso" (or were ya typing summing else there and didn't finish so the ''so'' bit relates to ''so it creates''), a "daemon"?
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ISO=copy of the dvd on your harddrive. (fileextension is .iso)

DVDDecrypter=makes ISO from DVD, removes Region+encryption

Daemon Tools=Creates a virtual DVD drive (you can see it in explorer like a normal dvd drive) and "mounts" the iso there

VLC player=video player that plays the dvd from the virtual dvd drive (Any other dvd-capable player will also work)

ButterflyXXX said:
And why must I reset the dvd reg. count, i have one 'life' left?
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See if you can set it to SA region...and then leave it there. Pretty sure its stuck on the "foreign" region now though.

Sorry..but I can't think of any elegant solution to this...except if you want to spend $$$ on AnyDVD.

Gotta sleep now.:)
 
HavocXphere said:
ISO=copy of the dvd on your harddrive. (fileextension is .iso)

DVDDecrypter=makes ISO from DVD, removes Region+encryption

Daemon Tools=Creates a virtual DVD drive (you can see it in explorer like a normal dvd drive) and "mounts" the iso there

VLC player=video player that plays the dvd from the virtual dvd drive (Any other dvd-capable player will also work)


See if you can set it to SA region...and then leave it there. Pretty sure its stuck on the "foreign" region now though.

Sorry..but I can't think of any elegant solution to this...except if you want to spend $$$ on AnyDVD.

Gotta sleep now.:)
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k, nite nite. thanks for the help. i'll get my IT fella at work cracking on that immediately ;)
 
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