That’s what I seem to be in.<\/p>\n
Ignore the fact that my ma’s in town, forget for a while that it’s been quite sometime since I last updated, disregard my newly-found enthusiasm for anything to do with Pradosh C Mitter, Lalmohan Ganguli and Topshe. This be thick hot soup, massah, and I be trying to swimming without swallowing too much. Ignore all grammatical licenses too.<\/p>\n
Now, then, the ingredients:<\/p>\n
1) A nice little site called cd-wow.com<\/a>, which ships DVDs and CDs worldwide, with NO SHIPPING CHARGES.<\/p>\n 2) A computer, ten months old, running Windows 98 (This is the part half of you will grimace in disgust and spit on the ground and say “By the Hoary Hosts of L’Naksh, there lies the foul problem!” )<\/p>\n 3) A PSony DVD Drive, preferably pborrowed pfrom psome pfriend.<\/p>\n 4) Power DVD XP4, cracked beyond recognition.<\/p>\n 5) WinDVD Platinum 5, Ditto.<\/p>\n Instructions: Simmer for five days.<\/p>\n On the fifth day, God created animals, and fish and birds and snakes…oh, sorry, wrong line. On the fifth day, accept all three DVDs in the mail, and proceed to next step.<\/p>\n Try not to dance on the way.<\/p>\n Now then, rub hands and gloat. Insert first DVD in DVD drive. Make sure the first one is Zatoichi<\/i>.<\/p>\n Read the message that comes up. The message should, in optimal conditions, say “You have three chances left before your counter is set. Current counter is Region 3. Are you sure?” (This part is important) Be sure. Be confident in the powers of Power DVD Tweaker Pro and click “yes”. Watch DVD for unspecified period of time. Insert second DVD. Make sure it is This is Spinal Tap<\/i>. <\/p>\n Repeat above Step until counter becomes 0.<\/p>\n Take deep breath, and laugh in the (figurative) face of Stupid DVD-player makers who think of thwarting Happy Moviegoers. <\/p>\n Uninstall PowerDVD, run Regedit, and remove all traces of entries. Restart. Reinstall. Watch happy message when you insert DVD. Uninstall. Install WinDVD. Crack. Insert DVD. Watch happy message again. Ignore sinking feeling in tummy. Install Win2000, reinstall drivers, reinstall player. insert DVD, read Happy Message.<\/p>\n Soup’s served!<\/p>\n Ok, so right now my DVD drive ( or rather, the DVD drive I had *cough* borrowed) plays only Region 2 DVDs. Which is not much help because I have only one Region 2 DVD to watch. So I need to do some serious shit to get it region-free. <\/p>\n A little searching<\/a> shows that a firmware flash\/crack might be required, and detailed instructions for how to do so for the Sony DDU-1621 are given right here<\/a>. The only thing is, this is a firmware flash guide for Firmware version 1.x, while the version I am using is version 3.5. The patch up there says it’s not tested. So, ahem, do I go ahead with this? Or does anyone know of any software ( other than the $39 priced kinds) that can reset the region-code for a DVD? <\/p>\n Help!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" That’s what I seem to be in. Ignore the fact that my ma’s in town, forget for a while that it’s been quite sometime since I last updated, disregard my newly-found enthusiasm for anything to do with Pradosh C Mitter, Lalmohan Ganguli and Topshe. This be thick hot soup, massah, and I be trying to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nGo to site, click on Bargain Basement, order three DVDs. Pretend you are Omniscient, scoff at all warning labels, and ask for Takeshi Kitano’s Zatoichi<\/i>, Akira Kurosawa’s Ran<\/i>, and Rob Reiner’s This is Spinal Tap!<\/i>.<\/p>\n