From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_icanect.net)
Date: Mon Dec 14 1998 - 02:15:01 EST
Jeroen...
you can try the various hacks or reload the preload..
blame hollywood and their need for more and more and more..
when enough is not enough, they want more..
thus all the locks and so forth to preven illegal copying and watching a
movie intended for the USA in Europe..
that way thay can charge hige prices, i think, far longer than otherwise
would be possible..
Jeroen Elfferich wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I try something new with my 770X everyday. Today is DVD day. I got
> The Big Lebowski (a good start, I should think!) from a friend,
> it's a region-free DVD. I fired up Mediamatics DVD Express that
> came along with the machine. The program asked me what zone DVD's
> I wanted to use and informed me it was a one-time choice. I chose
> Region 1, because I'll be ordering region 1 DVD's through the internet
> more than I need Region 2 (Europe) DVD's.
>
> To my surprise, DVD Express now quits immediately after push in
> the DVD - it just aborts! I went 'shopping' on the web for a hack
> and found one for the 770ED, but it didn't work either. I'm not
> a manual type of guy (I've been using a computer on a near-daily
> basis since I was 10 years old and never read a manual) but I
> started looking in the help files anyway. And to my horror I found
> these snippets in the online user guide in the 'watching a dvd
> movie' section:
>
> "For Windows 98 installations, you select a region as part of the
> Windows 98 setup procedure. You must select a region to play DVD
> content. After you select the region, you can play content only
> for that region. Be sure to select your correct region."
>
> I was never aware that the location I chose would be my DVD
> region automatically!
>
> and later on:
>
> "For Windows 98, the system will lock to the region of the first
> encrypted DVD played. Make sure the first DVD content played is
> from the appropriate region. You can verify the region code of the
> content by looking at the region code symbol on the back of the
> content packaging.
>
> If the first DVD played is from a region other than the region you
> selected during the set up procedure outline just explained, your
> system will no longer play DVD content. Contact the computer
> manufacturer."
>
> So now I'm no longer capable of running _any_ DVD movie! Not a
> friendly gesture from a computer that costs about as much as a
> car.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jeroen
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