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Your DVD drive region code can be changed. Code change is limited.
Once the limit is reached, it cannot be changed any more.
To confirm the limit, click
Region
tab of
Setup
dialog box and check
bottom line in the window. (Refer to
Using Parental Control
section on
the next page to open the
Setup
dialog box.)
Make sure to log on your computer as a member of the Computer
administrators group. Otherwise you cannot change the region code.
Available region codes are:
Region Code
Area
1 U.S.A,
Canada
2
West Europe, Japan, South Africa
3
South East Asia (including Hong Kong)
4
Australia, Spanish America
5
Former Soviet Union, Indian Subcontinent, Africa
6 China
To change the region code:
1.
Insert a DVD video into the drive.
If the region code of the DVD video is different from that of your drive,
Confirm
Region
dialog box appears.
2.
The region code currently
selected is checked in the left box. Region code of
your DVD video is checked in the right box. If you want to change the drive
code and play the DVD video, click
OK
.
On some DVD videos, plural region codes are selectable in the right box
of
Confirm Region
dialog box. Carefully choose an appropriate one.
When
Confirm Region
dialog box does not appear:
1. Click
start
-
My Computer
–
View system information
.
2. In
System Properties
dialog box, select
Hardware
tab and click
Device Manager
button.
3. In
Device Manager
dialog box, double-click
DVD/CD-ROM
drives
string and
MATSHITA xxxxxx
.(xxxxxx is your optical
drive name.)
4. Select
DVD Region
tab, choose the listed distribution area of
the DVD video, then, confirm the region code shown in the
New
Region
field is correct and click
OK
.
5. Read the message on the screen, then, click
OK
.
