Phillips DVDV 8701 hacks?

Manik

Hi all,

My Dell 9150 PC came with a Phillips DVD 8701 DVD-RW.

However, while playing one of the DVD's its seems to have changed it region coding from Region 2 to Region 1. Having re-set the player to region 2 again, it seems i have lost 2 of the 5 attempst allowed in changing the writers settings.

I was interested to know whether there is some way to make this DVD writer region-free or multi-region?

I often hear there are firmware hacks available for most DVD players to make them multi-region. Could this also be done with PC DVD RW's?

Any help or advice from techie experts would be much appreciated.

Regards,.

Manik

ABH_3

Manik wrote:

Hi all,

My Dell 9150 PC came with a Phillips DVD 8701 DVD-RW.

However, while playing one of the DVD's its seems to have changed it region coding from Region 2 to Region 1. Having re-set the player to region 2 again, it seems i have lost 2 of the 5 attempst allowed in changing the writers settings.

Install and use this: DVD43 http://www.dvd43.com/ it's free and sits in your system tray and ensures that you aren't affected by region codes. You have to let it run everytime you load your computer however, it is considered "lite" on system rescources so shouldn't get in your way.

I was interested to know whether there is some way to make this DVD writer region-free or multi-region?

I often hear there are firmware hacks available for most DVD players to make them multi-region. Could this also be done with PC DVD RW's?

More than likely, here are some pages to search through:

The Firmware Page\Forums: here

VideoHelp here

CDFreaks here

HTH

Manik

Many thanks for the guidance ABH

MAnik