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by kevg

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I've just installed a DVD player on my WIN 98 machine with Cyberlink's POWERDVD (ver 3.0).
Trouble is the multizoneing. It has gives me 5 chances to change zones and then that's it. No more DVD's. It means that of my 5 DVD's that I have, I can now only play 1. It no longer allows me to change zones and infact my area is greyed out.

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by Former member

Unfortunately you'll have to reformat your hard drive to get your 5 "chances" back to change zones.

by cg it

ah..trialware software [though they don't say that]. InterActual Player 2.0 is a free [well semi free] DVD playback program. Try that one. you can play all the DVD movies you want [don't have to buy anything] but if you want all the bells and whistles, then ya have to buy the "platinum" version or something like that].

by thechas

The zone change limit is a 'feature' demanded by the media giants on all commercial DVD players.

The media giants do not want people buying or swapping DVDs from other regions.
The main purpose of this is to protect the local region's distributors.

Off the soapbox.
Here is a link to a tool that may help you out.
http://www.inmatrix.com/genie/

There are many other web sites out there with tips and software to 'crack' the region limits on most of the software DVD players.

Chas

by b_pope

DVD Region Killer is all you need home page is here http://elby.ch/english/fun/software/index.html

Or suggest you visit this site for a more complete listing & links to everything DVD & DIVX
http://www.digital-digest.com/index.html.

You'll also likely need to get the Firmware hack for your make model DVD player, these sites are a little harder to find email me if you need the links.

Another option is going into your registry & changing your region there everytime you need to play oneset for a different region, but you need to know what region each DVD is set for. Easier going firmware software route.

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