I’ve spent a bit of time researching how I can turn my computer into a multi-region player as my DVD player is playing up. My optical drives aren’t region locked but Windows is (what a suprise, it’s a Windows problem) and it looks like the only solution is to shell out for something like AnyDVD.
It’s stupid really. I realise why they implemented regions but they didn’t think it through – anything software controlled could easily be hacked and it unfairly affects legitimate users. I have a lot of region 1 DVDs simply because they were never realised on region 2. Absolute film classics such as Logan’s Run and The Breakfast Club and fantastic non-Hollywood films like Paradise Lost I have on region 1 because the only way to get hold of them was to import them from America. Legitimate real paid for versions that I bought off Amazon. That I can’t currently watch.
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