stupid dvd regions...

[Clip]

my girlfriend gave me some topgear dvds from BBC, but they're all region 2

can anyone here explain to me how to convert them to region 1, or pal to ntsc? i have a few pages on the web but they seem to be very complicated and i can't keep up. have any of you done this before and are willing to do it again?

and why in the hell do regions even exist?

 

[Fuzz420]

http://www.dvdexploder.com/

 

[Clip]

any free way to do it?

 

[steven89]

send em to me and I can watch em =p I have a region free dvd player from Norway

Or just play em on your computer [I think that should work]. A lot of PS2s and etc are region free. My xbox [modded] is region free aswell.

 

[Fuzz420]

try this one it seems to be free

http://forum.ecoustics.com/bbs/messages/2/122698.html

i did a pretty extensive search, seems like most of the stuff is pay for

Goodluck

 

[JustAnotherVictim]

Region free dvd player fool.
noob.

 

[cuel]

I've run into the region issue before. Believe Win. Media player will play them.

 

[Kai]

Okay - first thing you need to do it change the DVD drive to an RPC1 firmware. I suggest you look for one at http://forum.rpc1.org/dl_all.php

Once you've flashed your drive with an RPC1 firmware, the drive is no longer locked to a specific region. Then you can play them in whatever software application you like, although i recommend getting a piece of software off SourceForge called Media Player Classic. It looks like the old Windows Media Player on the surface but underneath it has inbuilt MPEG2 decoding and a bunch of other features that are rather handy. It's less than 2mb in size as well.

Here's the URL for it:

http://www.free-codecs.com/download/Media_Player_Classic.htm

Did i mention it's totally free to use and doesnt have any annoying advertisements or limitations?

 

[JMDigital]

easy way to do it . ANYDVD (http://www.slysoft.com/en/anydvd.html) & dvdshrink its free (http://www.dvdshrink.org/what.html) DVD shrink may do it without any help. It makes a copy and changes the dvd to region free - then just burn a copy and its all done.

or - send them to me and I will do it for you. .and keep a copy for me

 

[JustAnotherVictim]

I'll have to try one of those.
Had my comp set to region 2 for dvd's since the region free dvd is hooked up to the big tv and ps2 only plays US.

 

[Kai]

Firmware flashes are pretty simple - not as scary as it used to be...

I just wish they had the SB-03 in RPC1 for my Samsung SH-S183A

 

[foreverpsycotic]

Firmware flashes are pretty simple - not as scary as it used to be...

I assume it would be simalar to a bios flash (from inside windows, not booting from a cd)?

 

[JustAnotherVictim]

Executable file.
I did it earlier, works perfectly.

 

[selfinfliction]

and why in the hell do regions even exist?

for some strange reason they thought it would hinder copyright violations.

 

[Dirgle]

If your just using a regular DVD player you can change the region code on most players.

 

[JustAnotherVictim]

for some strange reason they thought it would hinder copyright violations.

More like just to make more money.