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I have a combined dvd/hd-dvd/bd drive on my machine (yeah, I'm very much the big man) which is all great and everything. However, I've got quite a few region 1 DVDs (on import, yeah?) that it won't play. I know I can switch my drive's region but this is limited to 5 times only. Is there a way I can make the drive permanently multi-region or lift this limit, the same way you can with most DVD players?

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If you don't live in the 'land of the free' you can also install DVD43 which decrypts DVDs in the background and shows them to the player as region free.

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That's great thank you, will give it a go. – jammus Jul 17 '09 at 8:38
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Remember that when you play a DVD that you have bought legally on a computer you own - you are talking Learjets from the mouths of poor starving artists. – Martin Beckett Jul 18 '09 at 2:45
LOL @mgb. Upvoted. s/talking/taking/ – Alexander Burke Mar 21 '10 at 6:18
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AnyDVD HD can strip the region codes from (most?) HD and Blu-Ray disks. I do not believe either DVD43 or VLC will do that, I think they only work on DVDs.

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Most drives will not let you do this - but you should be able to use a program like VLC to get around the regions in software.

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