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Postby wiggins » Sun Oct 26, 2003 9:58 am

Hi!
I was wondering is there is such a thing as a DVD-R drive that can read all regions of DVDs, and if one can change the video card in a laptop. Does anyone know? Thanks!
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Postby Straylight » Sun Oct 26, 2003 10:08 am

The closest thing I've seen is a DVD drive that allows you to change the region a limited number of times. If you're really desperate, you can always get 2 dvd drives and set the regions differently for each.
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Postby TheMelodyMaker » Sun Oct 26, 2003 6:45 pm

I've never seen the inside of a laptop, but I've heard they can be pretty packed and hard to upgrade. My guess is that it has a video chip built into the motherboard with no room for upgrades (that is, no PCI/AGP slot) but maybe someone who has actually been inside a laptop could confirm/correct me on this.
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Postby Straylight » Sun Oct 26, 2003 6:56 pm

You can definatly change the drives in laptops. As for graphics and sound, they are almost always built in. You can usually add about 2 extra PC cards in as well
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Postby animenewstoday » Sun Oct 26, 2003 7:00 pm

what kind of laptop do you have? If it's a dell it's easy to install as far as dvd-r there is unless you have 800 dollors
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Postby wiggins » Mon Oct 27, 2003 8:19 am

I have a Dell Inspiron 8100...
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Postby animenewstoday » Mon Oct 27, 2003 11:31 am

wiggins wrote:I have a Dell Inspiron 8100...



Pk stuff can be easly installed on inpurations if you want to in stall a dvd
drive if youwan to know how to do it pm me i do this stuff all the time
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Postby wiggins » Mon Oct 27, 2003 3:19 pm

What's Pk stuff?
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Postby glitch1501 » Mon Oct 27, 2003 4:04 pm

there is this program called dvd region free

it changes the region of the dvd player so it can read all formats....


http://www.dvdidle.com/download.htm

i dont know if its free or not

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Postby animenewstoday » Mon Oct 27, 2003 5:10 pm

pk is what they called dell parts i'm use to it at work
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Postby wiggins » Sat Nov 08, 2003 3:46 pm

glitch1501 wrote:there is this program called dvd region free

it changes the region of the dvd player so it can read all formats....


http://www.dvdidle.com/download.htm

i dont know if its free or not


Thanks glitch! You do have to pay money, but for someone like me who tends to move about quite a bunch (to me that is; others might think otherwise), it looks like a pretty sweet deal.
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Postby LorentzForce » Sat Nov 08, 2003 9:54 pm

mine has no region setting. yes, both the 'hardware' player in my living room AND my computer's DVD-ROM.

how?

most 'hard' players have this code thing that unlocks region settings. they all do. well, most of them do. you just gotta find it on the internet, or guess it yourself. it's like finding a cheat with your remote controller...

as for the DVD-ROMs on your computers, you'll have to either flash it, or get a program that lets you change the regions freely. dvdidle is such example, but i flashed mine so i can do away without paying a cent. look for DVD-ROM Flashing on google or something. most are there...
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