Region code of the DVD player

The DVD on my Pavilion A1375A Media Center PC drive is set to region 1 - I am in Australia (region 4).

I can't set it to region 4.

I asked HP to sell me a new DVD player, but they do not know what the new discs region code will be and asked that I contact Microsoft and ask:

(a) area code would change once a factory of re - configure?

(b) what would be the new replacement drive region code?

It seems strange to me that HP can't?

Hoping someone can help,

all good wishes,

David

Hello

You must talk to people bad at HP since it is not Windows that
decides what optical drives of regions are defined.  HP provides probably hundreds
readers of your region (really the thousands).

It is by design.

DVD region information
http://social.technet.Microsoft.com/forums/en/smallbusinessserver/threads

DVD region code
http://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD_region_code

You can buy devices that claim to be region free and software that claims to
in order to allow other regions to read even if I have no experience
with those.

Region Free DVD Player Information
http://www.dvdbuyingguide.com/codefreedvd/Codefree-FAQ.html

Region Free & Code free DVD player information
http://www.dvdbuyingguide.com/codefreedvd/bigfaq.html

Forums - a lot of expert real help
http://Club.myce.com/

I hope this helps.

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