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Date:	Sat, 26 Jun 2004 11:55:55 PDT7
From:	"J. R. Fox" <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com, rashj@pacbell.net
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: For Sandy -- What is that DVD utility ?

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Hi Sandy,

I am not where the box with the DVD drive is right now, so I cannot
give you an exact quote for a few more days. I believe that when I
queried the drive with DRIVEINFO and DISCINFO, it reported something
like

5 Manufacturer Changes Remaining
4 User Changes Remaining

(in regard to that Region setting business) -- whatever this means.

I will soon have some good resource links to post here, besides
DVDRHELP, if anyone is interested. There are a number of desirable
utilities one should grab and have on hand. However, I have been
unable to locate anything matching the particular description you gave
at the meeting. What I found falls into one of two categories: 1)
Substitute (hacked) firmware you can burn onto the drive (at some
risk), which will permanently circumvent the region coding deal, or 2)
Win-32 utilities that apparently intercept the region info and prevent
hardware-counter change when you play the foreign DVD. Neither of
these options is what I thought I heard you describe. Perhaps I
misunderstood you.

Thanks.

Jordan

cc: Jerry Rash

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