--- Forwarded Message from Carine Ullom <[log in to unmask]> --- >Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2003 15:12:12 -0400 >From: Carine Ullom <[log in to unmask]> >User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) >To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Re: #7278 New computers with DVD drives and regions >References: <[log in to unmask]> >In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]> ------------------ Hello, I talked about the solution to this problem implemented at St. Lawrence University at CALICO in May in Ottawa. Here are some links from that presentation. These focus on a long-term fix that renders the DVD-ROM region free permanently (several different options for accomplishing this). *DVD Genie http://www.inmatrix.com/genie/index.shtml *Region Killer http://www.elby.ch/english/fun/software/index.html *Win2000 & Win XP Registry Hacks http://www.inmatrix.com/articles/win2000.shtml *DVD Region Free http://www.dvdidle.com/dvd-region-free.htm Regards, Carine Ullom Director, Language Resource Center/ Instructional Technology Specialist Department of Modern Languages & Literatures St. Lawrence University Canton, NY 13617 LLTI-Editor wrote: >--- Forwarded Message from Laura Atkinson <[log in to unmask]> --- > > > >>Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2003 11:24:39 -0400 >>From: Laura Atkinson <[log in to unmask]> >>To: "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]> >>Subject: New computers with DVD drives and regions >> >> > >------------------ > >Hi all, > >When you get new computers in that have DVD drives, do any of you have a >process for locking the firmware down to a specific region? My >understanding is that most drives let you change regions 5 times before >they lock, and it would probably not be good if any of the machines got >locked into something other than region 1. Or, maybe it would be good to >select certain machines to be region 1, region 2, and so on. In any event, >I want to choose what happens with each one rather than leaving it to >chance. > >Any of you have well-thought-out policies about this? > >Thanks! > >~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* >Laura Atkinson >Technical Coordinator for Foreign Language Computing >Duke University >[log in to unmask] >~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* > >