Changing DVD region

[aaddevries]

I'm living in Europe, and I have a couple of imported DVD's. The problem is, the DVD-player of my laptop (matshita bd-cmb uj160) can only change region for four times. Does anyone know a way to make it region-free?

[Bozobub]

Play them using MPC-HC (Media Player Classic - Home Cinema).  It's free, is found with many codec packs (even though it's actually codec "agnostic") or as a standalone install, works very well, and doesn't give a rat's patoot about what region the DVD you're playing is from =) .

[aaddevries]

I do use Mediaplayer classic, but it doesn't work. The problem is in the DVD-player firmware.

[Al_Sleeper]

Can you see/copy the files?

[Van.]

Use DVD Region Killer.

[datora]

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AnyDVD:

 - http://www.slysoft.com/en/download.html
 - http://www.slysoft.com/en/anydvdhd.html

You can evaluate it for free, then purchase.  Not too hard to find an unlocked version, such as bay of pirates.  Twice in the past I bought their licenses, but I've also used cracked versions ... those install best if no previous installation has been attempted (such as the evaluation period version).  If you go that route, you can sort of consider it a 'longer evaluation period' until you do purchase ... which I would recommend.  It's a seemless and solid little region breaker that cares not about what firmware is on the hardware.  It used nearly 0% resources on a 500 MHz Pentium III machine, which I relied on a lot when in Europe.

Now that I'm in the U.S. I don't have a need for such a utility.  At the moment.  But, I did like many things about AnyDVD (worked with everything else, all players and copy & encoding utils) and would gladly continue supporting them, unless they've gone full-on retarded with their software in the last ~2 years.

[Triltaison]

As another option to throw out there, VLC also ignores regions when playing DVDs. I've had no problem playing discs from Italy, Japan, and the UK with it.