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 Posted: Sun May 17, 2009 7:35 pm |
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Hi,
I just came across a little curiosity that keeps bugging me..
I recently bought a US Region 1 dvd box to watch it on my MacBook (early 2009).
On the first run DVD-Player told me to change my region code which
(for whatever reason) was set to 6. I didn't do it so the DVD wont play.
The other day I tried the same DVD on my iMac which has a Region 2 lock and it played just fine! After this I checked with DVDInfoX to see if my drives region had changed. But for some reason it's still Region 2 with my 'remaining changes' count being the same as before.
With this success in mind I switched my MacBook to Region 2 to at least be able to watch
european DVDs. Guess what happened?
My now Region 2 locked MacBook plays the same Region 1 DVDs it won't play before
without any problems!!
Can anyone tell me what's going on here?
I can switch between Region 1 and Region 2 DVDs without changing my drives code lock
and without loosing any remaining changes..
I mean.. this is kinda cool.. bun WTF is going on??
Sorry for this long prolly-not-well-written post.
P.S.
Playback works on FrontRow, VLC and Mplayer.
My Drives are:
MacBook: Matshita UJ-868 KA14
iMac: Pioneer DVR-K06A
Cheers,
Shirk
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Posted: Sun May 17, 2009 9:11 pm |
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Hi, regarding the pio - I never did any modifications to the firmware (and I have no Window$ at reach). For my MacBook - below is a DISCInfo dump as you requested. Code: DISCINFO VERSION : 1.7.0 BETA.12
VENDOR : MATSHITA
MODEL : DVD-R UJ-868
REVISION : KA14
VENDOR SPECIFIC : 809260000000
LOADING MECHANISM : Tray
SERIAL NUMBER : dE0D77E9
NUMBER VOL. LEVELS : 256
BUFFER SIZE : 2048KB
INTERFACE : ATAPI
RPC2 SCHEME : YES
STATUS : Set
USER CHANGES : 3 ; Initially 4, I used one when switching to Region 2
VENDOR CHANGES : 4
CURRENT REGION : 2
ANALOG AUDIO PLAY : YES
COMPOSITE OUTPUT : YES
DIGITAL PORT-PORT1 : NO
DIGITAL PORT-PORT2 : NO
READ UPC CODE : YES
MULTISESSION READ : YES
MODE 2 FORM 1 : YES
MODE 2 FORM 2 : YES
READ ISRC CODE : YES
READ BAR CODE : YES
BUFFER UNDER-RUN : YES
MT. RAINIER : NO
CAN READ CDR : YES
CAN READ CDRW : YES
CAN READ CDRM2 : YES
CAN WRITE CDR : YES
CAN WRITE CDRW : YES
CAN TEST WRITE : YES
CAN READ DVD-ROM : YES
CAN READ DVD-R : YES
CAN READ DVD-RW : YES
CAN READ DVD-RAM : YES
CAN READ DVD+R : YES
CAN READ DVD+RW : YES
CAN WRITE DVD-R : YES
CAN WRITE DVD-RW : YES
CAN WRITE DVD-RAM : NO
CAN WRITE DVD+R : YES
CAN WRITE DVD+RW : YES
MAX CDR READ SPEED : 24
MAX CDR WRITE SPEED: 24
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Posted: Sun May 17, 2009 11:20 pm |
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there is no lock down of your drive, its acting normal, you say you had 4 changes, you changed to region 2, now you have 3, once you do it three more times, the drive will be then region locked, and no more changes can happen, be the same for the pioneer, unless it has RPC1 firmware on it, what does the info about the pioneer say?
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Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 6:07 am |
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Joined: Sun May 17, 2009 7:24 pm
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Sorry I think you got me wrong here!
With "locked" I mean "RPC2 locked" not "locked after using all my changes".
I know I can switch my region setting three more times but I don't have
to. Both Region 1 and Region 2 DVDs play just fine now.
That's what keeps puzzling me..
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Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 2:37 pm |
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Joined: Sun May 17, 2009 7:24 pm
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As this seems to be at least of some interest,
is there any other data I can provide?
I checked again and I'm still able to play the DVDs in FrontRow
without any complains.
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