Playing Multizone DVD's on the Vaio A Series notebook

[Femii]

Hello, i'm new to the vaio site.:smileyhappy: i'm hoping someone can help?

i just bought a Vaio A series notebook and found that the equipped dvd player had already been set to play only dvd's from region / zone_2 ie: (PAL).

I had hoped i'd have a chance to set it for zone_1 ie: (NTSC), as most dvd's i loan are from zone_1.

is there any way to de-zone the DVD drive to play zone-free or to reset it to play just zone_1?

cheers.

[nick_pan]

http://www.doom9.org/index.html?/rpc1.htm

tell me if you have probs

[Femii]

g'day to u monsieur pan

cheers for the tips.

t'was a cinch.

just the ticket

you're da man.

caio

[nick_pan]

pleased to help..

Nick

[DAZZA]

you can change it but only 4 times, after that your stuck
go to dvd drive in device manager

[nick_pan]

nah..

the doom9 group are specialists in these matters

[vaiodon]

Doom9 - True....

AnyDVD (I didn't say that did I?)

Interesting irony on my RZ-322 which was factory shipped with a Sony DVD-RW and a Matsushita DVD-R. The Sony can be made to read any region using the appropriate software while the Matsushita can't. So we have a corporate behemoth who on one hand is bleating about copyright protection (Sony Pictures) and on the other (Sony Storage) is making DVD drives on which region protection can be compromised.

[kee-lo_]

Yes Doom9 seem to know their stuff (and it's contributers).