[ltp] region-free DVD-drive

Tue, 24 Jan 2006 14:26:20 +0000

On Tuesday 24 January 2006 14:22, igorr+tp@ifi.uio.no wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> I have a ThinkPad with a Matshita UJ-822S, and recently I have discovered
> that this DVD drive unfortunately implements region settings in firmware.
> There does not seem to be any third party firmware updates[1], and coming
> from the region-free NEC-world[2], I find this situation very annoying.

on linux regions do not matter. On windows xp there are freewares 
(http://www.dvd43.com/) that make regions irrelevant.