{"id":6,"date":"2004-12-08T23:11:12","date_gmt":"2004-12-08T22:11:12","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-08-08T19:37:33","modified_gmt":"2006-08-08T18:37:33","slug":"region-free-firmware-goodness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/?p=6","title":{"rendered":"Region Free Firmware Goodness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finally worked up the courage to un-lock the DVD drive on my PC. I<br \/>\ndislike the motion picture industry telling me from what regions I can<br \/>\nwatch DVDs. It&#8217;s especiall irritating when considering that many fine<br \/>\nDVDs such as <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00019PDNY\/qid%3D1102546578\/sr%3D11-1\/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F1\/104-0731387-9154363\">this<\/a> and <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/B0001LJBTE\/qid=1102546733\/sr=1-1\/ref=sr_1_1\/104-0731387-9154363?v=glance&#038;s=dvd\">this<\/a> are only available as Region 1.  The fact that the MPAA feels I should have to jump through hoops in order to <em>give them money <\/em>has got to be corporate stupidity of the highest order.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>So I mosied on over to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firmware.fr.st\/\" target=\"_self\">Firmware Page<\/a>,<br \/>\ndownloaded the patched firmware and uploaded it with the manufacturers<br \/>\nutility. The windows diagnostics reckons that I only have one region<br \/>\nchange left on my drive. The good news being that it remains at one<br \/>\nchange left regardless of how many times I change it. Huzzah! <\/p>\n<p>On a slightly unrelated note I&#8217;ve had a number of fairly new DVDs go<br \/>\nsouth on me. There doesn&#8217;t appear to be any damage to the disks but<br \/>\nthey are skipping like crazy. I may have to use <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/B0001LJBTE\/qid=1102546733\/sr=1-1\/ref=sr_1_1\/104-0731387-9154363?v=glance&#038;s=dvd\">vobcopy<\/a> to try and salvage them. Something else the MPAA doesn&#8217;t like. Fair use, say I.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally worked up the courage to un-lock the DVD drive on my PC. I dislike the motion picture industry telling me from what regions I can watch DVDs. It&#8217;s especiall irritating when considering that many fine DVDs such as this and this are only available as Region 1. The fact that the MPAA feels I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/?p=6\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Region Free Firmware Goodness<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}