Hack Help Forum - DVD Genie - Page 1

I've downloaded this a couple of times in an attempt to make my DVD-rom region-free, with no success. The reason given is that my player is unable to have it's region changed (outside the 5 allowed changes) as it's programmed that way. So basically, genie only works with dvd-roms that can have it's region changed. Which I've always found a little odd.

I was under the impression that your DVD-Rom wasn't programmed to read "regions". I thought that was the software that determined what region you could play, such as PowerDVD and WinDVD. DVD Genie works fine on my computer.

I think that some of the newer DVD ROMs have hardware region encoding that functions independently of any software, and DVD Genie obviously doesn't work with those

Well, that would explain a lot. My DVD-ROM is over 3 years old.

Yes, it's the same with the PS2, as technology develops, as does the complexity of region protecting. There was a feeling a while ago that DVD developers were just going to give up on the region coding thing, because as soon as the players/software/firmware versions were released, they were getting hacked. But every now and again, someone releases a Player/software/firmware version that Can't be hacked, and their faith in the system gets rekindled.

There are many reasons to just stop region coding, but as many as the public come up with, the companies that control it come up with 3, mainly concerning money.

One way they could stop the NEED for importing foreign DVD's, is to simultaneously release identically specced DVD's worldwide. But maybe I'm living on a little cloud there

DVD ROMs have always had hardware region encoding the situation changed a few years ago where it stoped being an option and became enforced, this is usually got round by flashing the firmware. DVD Genie works with software players like PowerDVD and WinDVD etc and is not intended to region free the drive.

Steve..

I've got DVD Region Killer on mine, which works perfectly. Maybe you should try that?