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Sunday, January 08, 2006 - (see all news for this day)
power dvd - 07:12 PM
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on further investigation into this matter, it seems that it is the software, power dvd, which has been permanently set to region 4, not the hardware. this isn't terribly helpful since most of the dvds we hire here certainly won't be australian. bugger.
looking at the help files, seems you can't change it once it's been set, either. what a stupid system.
i could email them to ask, but i'd bet my life that they'll tell me that no, it can't be changed, or that yes, it can, but i'll have to buy the full version of the next version of power dvd. shroom & i have version 5 & the newest one is version 6. who thought of that whole stupid region idea, anyway?
grrr. not happy, jan. 
The region thing was set to keep faithful Muslims from seeing stuff that has been declared inappropriate. While some of us may not have a problem with seeing partial or full nudity, the proprieties of Islam are prevailing.
The work around is hacking the DVD player to ignore the region code blocking such that one can see the DVD without deletions, interruptions, blocking, bleeping, and other forms of editing.
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The region thing was set to keep g-o-o-d Muslims from seeing stuff that has been declared inappropriate. While some of us may not have a problem with seeing partial or full nudity, the proprieties of Islam are prevailing.
The work around is hacking the DVD player to ignore the region code blocking such that one can see the DVD without deletions, interruptions, blocking, bleeping, and other forms of editing.