region code in cdrecord

[Chuck Robey]

Tim Kientzle wrote:
> Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> 
>> Chuck Robey <chuckr at chuckr.org> writes:
>>
>>> ... converting a region==2 dvd to a region==1
>>> dvd (Britain to US).  I have a dvd taht you can't buy in the US,
>>> I've tried, and the British won't sell it in region code 1 ...
>>
>>
>> Just unlock your player.  Google should provide you with the correct
>> procedure.
> 
> 
> With cheap DVD players down to about $50, just buy another
> player and set it to Region 2.

There are so many bad assumptions here!

bad#1: that all dvd players come with secret decoder rings to change 
their region code.

bad#2: that ANY of them do.  A very small amount of dvd players have the 
ability to add patches to them, these all (in every case) need you to 
run Windows code to get these patches installed, and I don't run 
Windows, anywhere, anytime.

bad#3: that I have the time and willingness to talk my good friend, the 
really truly stubborn one who doesn't' know computers so well, that his 
dvd player should change.  He and I are family, and I just need to 
present him with clean copy.  This should be a software thing, not 
hardware, just so I don't need to argue with my friend over that.

I just spent a LOT of unfun time on google over this.  I would rather 
spend days fixing cdrecord than minutes on the hardware, or telling 
folks who I don't want to boot Windows

> 
> Tim
>