> Heres a DVD question. I just upgraded my system- [1.4 Athlon],
> anyways I have three hard drives and a hard drive selector called a
> TRIOS. I installed my DVD drive [NEC 16x]. I'm running XP Pro, Win98
> Se, and Win95 OSR2. The hard drives are seperate and I can only boot
> into one at a time.
> Question;
> I have PowerDVD and WinDVD. If I select the region code for the
> region 1 [I believe region 1 is for UK] in one O/S and select region
> 2 as another region in a different O/S. Will this work?
> I'd be happy playing the Carlton DVD's [I've pre-ordered] on just my
> PC. But would like to play US encoded ones also.
> Example: Hard drive 1 running XP- region code selected 1
> Hard drive 2 running Win98 Se- region code selected 2
The region code in the OS is only part of the problem, from what I
understand. It's the DVD-ROM drive that is important.
The DVD drive I've got, a Hitachi GD-7500, can only have the
region-code changed on it up to 4 times before it locks on the
last-run region code, depending on whatever disk is run last.
I believe you can test your DVD drive by running a utility called
'DriveInfo' (version 2.1) and it will show if your DVD drive has this
problem or not. Some (usually older) DVD-ROM drives don't check
region codes. My understanding is that WinDVD will play both PAL and
NTSC discs, so this shouldn't be a problem.
I've downloaded a couple of utilities which, theoretically, will fool
my DVD-ROM drive into not keeping track of region codes (hopefully I'm
not speaking out of turn here). I haven't tried this yet, but I'm
hoping to get a Region-2 PAL Laurel and Hardy DVD in the next day or
two, to test with. If this all works out, I won't bother going for a
separate standalone DVD player, but will just stick with my PC.
Maybe. Anyway, it's something I've been wanting to try out for over a
year. And I've wanted a copy of 'The Music Box' as well.
Oh, I'm running ME, so I can't speak as to how XP handles the Region
codes, but that wouldn't appear to be a problem for you, especially if
you stick with region 1. Some people had commented that they had to
do complete OS reinstallations when doing region code changes.
Maybe I'll know a bit more in a few days.
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