Smile, you can watch it
As a traveling singer it can be very frustrating not being able to watch DVD’s you buy or rent in Europe on your American laptop.
The DVD technology is the same regardless what country in the world you are in. What is different is an artificial limitation created by Hollywood. The DVD has a zone number according to where in the world it was produced for, and it must match with the same zone number of your DVD hardware. Because of Hollywood’s fear of consumers not buying at the controlled pricing, we are unable to watch those Opera DVD’s you can only find in Europe… or when abroad that rented Hollywood movie in German as language practice.
Most laptop DVD players give you 3 chances to watch a DVD outside of your American zone. Once used up, the DVD player becomes permanently locked. There are even subcategories of zones that limit not to region but specific country. “European region 2 DVDs may be sub-coded “D1″ to “D4″.” (Wikipedia)
Cheer up! There is a way around this that doesn’t involve opening up your computer, installing any hardware or soldering anything. All you need is a small DVD decrypter program installed.
DVD43
DVD43 is a completely free software that once installed, allows you to watch any DVD from anywhere in the world, as many times as you want.
This small program works as a middle man between your DVD hardware and software, tricking your movie watching software into thinking that you are watching a local not foreign DVD. You don’t have to learn anything to use DVD43, because it starts up automatically whenever you insert a DVD in your drive. A small smiley in your system tray allows you to control it.
DVD43 download site:
AnyDVD & DVD Region Free
Both these 2 other software programs allow you to watch any DVD you want on your computer in much the same way as DVD43. They offer some additional features worth mentioning: play, copy and rip protected audio CDs on your computer, capable of removing unwanted movie features including subtitles and prohibition messages such as copyright and FBI warnings, control the drive speed of your DVD drive allowing you to reduce the noise level when watching movies on your PC. Unlike the free DVD43, AnyDVD & DVD Region Free are offered at a cost, but still rather affordable and can be tried out before paying.
AnyDVD: http://www.slysoft.com/en/anydvd.html
DVD Region Free: http://www.dvdidle.com/en/dvd-region-free.htm
Do you know what zones you are allowed to watch? You don’t need to anymore!
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