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vaio notebook dvd region free
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drawclif
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1. May 2008 @ 02:20 |
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my vaio sgx notebook has a matsushita uj-852s dvd drive which seems to be a bad one for watching worldwide movies. mine is now locked at region1 via rpc2 hardware. none of the obvious software solutions seem to support this drive and i cannot find updated firmware
anyomne else had this problem and found a solution (i dont mind paying for a worklable solution :)
thanks
david
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2. May 2008 @ 00:18 |
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"The flimsier the product,the higher the price"
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drawclif
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2. May 2008 @ 00:57 |
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thanks, but sadly it does not.
their product notes state:
NOTE: DVD-RAM, Matshita XX-8xxx, SW-9xxx series DVD drives, and Torisan DRD-Uxxx series DVD drives are not supported now, and there is no plan to support them.
(at least they are honest enough to state up-front)
any other ideas ?
david
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2. May 2008 @ 18:50 |
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Hook up an external drive (eg a Liteon, very good)
Then you are set with region free
"The flimsier the product,the higher the price"
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drawclif
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3. May 2008 @ 13:10 |
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well while that should work( depend on the drive inside of course!) i really want it to watch movies when i am on a plane. so carrying an external drive is not so convenient.
my current solution is to make a region free .ISO image of the non-region 1 movie on my desktop PC then i use daemon tools to mount that on my NB. but that doesnt help me when i just buy a movie locally.
cheers
david
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3. May 2008 @ 23:36 |
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drawclif
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4. May 2008 @ 02:45 |
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thanks for the tip off to this software. sadly it just confirms the original comments that this is not possible with Matsushita drives . . .
comments from the slyslft website:
AnyDVD does not allow you with Matsushita (Panasonic) drives to watch or copy a CSS protected disc, which has a different region then the drive, unless you have a patched firmware. (AnyDVD allows this with every other drive)
The reason is rather simple:
MMC standard requires, that a drive should not reveal a title key on a region mismatched CSS protected disc. (It should return "Illegal request - region code does not match"). Some drives are even less restrictive and even give you the title key on region mismatch.
But AnyDVD can usually reveal the title key with a brute force attack, as long as the drive allows you to read the scrambled sectors.
Matsushita (Panasonic) drives do not! You CANNOT read the scrambled data, if the region code doesn't match.
No other drive behaves this way, only Matsushita (Panasonic) drives do, as the standard does not require a drive to not reveal the protected data on region mismatch, but Matsushita (Panasonic) drives are more restrictive as they need to be.
There is nothing AnyDVD, DVDDecrypter, or any other software can do about this. Sorry.
It cannot bypass region codes with Matsushita (Panasonic) drives.
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4. May 2008 @ 02:51 |
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well if you can't find hacked firmware to make/use the drive for what you want to your going to have to replace it or buy an external optical drive.
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4. May 2008 @ 02:54 |
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He does'nt want to use an external, so the suggestion of a new drive ( other than a Matsushita drive) is in order.
"The flimsier the product,the higher the price"
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4. May 2008 @ 03:07 |
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and laptops are a bitch to change out optical drives
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5. May 2008 @ 20:23 |
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Originally posted by ZoSoIV:
and laptops are a bitch to change out optical drives
No kidding !!!
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6. May 2008 @ 08:37 |
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Originally posted by ZoSoIV:
and laptops are a bitch to change out optical drives
Absolutely. I refrain...if possible.
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