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Playing region 1 DVDs on a region 2 laptop
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-TangleFoot- wrote: »This might help, though you risk bricking it by doing so.
That looks promising. Seems like the link is down at the moment, but if anyone wants to have a look, you can view a cached copy of the web page here: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Jfw45ksdsBsJ:forum.rpc1.org/viewtopic.php%3Ft%3D46246+http://forum.rpc1.org/viewtopic.php%3Ff%3D2%26t%3D46246
This page seems to suggest that (I quote), "region codes are not a problem for Linux users"... I'm not sure if that's true, but it might be worth a go... It suggests that Windows users not wanting to install Linux can install xine (a Linux media player) under Cygwin in Windows...
http://ice.he.net/~hedden/DVD_video_standards.html
(scroll right down to the last section on the page)0
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