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[Saturnman]

For playing movies from around the world on your PC?

Just wondering. I've never tried it.

 

[8bit]

Some do, some don't.

 

[Ryo]

Most do yes. You get to choose what territory you are in a few times, and then it is locked.

 

[Saturnman]

Even if you let the PC do all the MPEG2 decoding instead of the drive?

 

[SpoonyBard]

Both the drive and the player program have regions codes. You can usually chance them for 5 times before they are locked.

 

[golem]

you can find region disabled firmware for many popular dvd-roms

 

[Ecrofirt]

find region free firmware, and look into getting a program that will make the disc appear to be Region free.

I know the people that make CloneCD make something called AnyDVd that should do the trick for you.

 

[The Faceless Master]

most popular dvdrom drives have RPC1 firmwares, i have the Lite-On HDD-166S

 

[demi]

Mine has the option to select it so many times, then it's locked.

I use DVDIdle, which allows you to run any DVD without worry of being locked.

http://www.dvdidle.com/download.htm?s=region

 

[borghe]

for a DVD-ROM to be a licensed DVD device it has to support and enforce territorial lockout. Most (all?) players give you 5 times to change the territory.

There is plenty of software out there to reset the territory and firmware out there to permanently disable it.

 

[Instigator]

I never play DVD on my computer but I have no problem playing movies from North America on my European DVD player (United brand, very inexpensive). I don't know if this is indicative of all DVD players, but I have yet to see those 'territorial lockouts' in action myself.