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Remove regional lock from DVD drive

Penners · 2010-08-06 13:42:40

I've read your article on removing the regional lock from standalone DVD players, but I want to do this for my computer's DVD RW drive. It's an Optiarc DVD-RW AD-7581S ATA device, running in an HP laptop (Windows 7). As I understand it, the drive allows 5 changes of region, but then locks to whichever region is the final…

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Penners Posts: 7 Forumite

10 August 2010 at 11:00AM edited 10 August 2010 at 11:02AM

Having discovered the free VLC Player (as I reported above) I reckon I have the solution that I need to the problem. It seems to run fine on my Windows 7 system.

Nevertheless, I'm keeping a note of the other solutions suggested in this thread, in case they're useful in the future.

Many thanks to everyone.

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