Cadillac Cowboy Posted August 6, 2011 Report Share Posted August 6, 2011 How does one go about removing the region lock on the included optical drive? I have a Sony VAIO VPCCB15FG with a Matshita DVD-RAM UJ8A0AS optical drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 sfbp Posted August 6, 2011 Report Share Posted August 6, 2011 Probably you cannot. To do so requires a very dodgy procedure whereby the firmware of the drive is rewritten. I've done it but not with a Sony. Knowing Sony, they probably made it difficult if they could. However the Mats drive procedures are fairly well known (and published), it's your risk. Suppose you have two region codes you need to watch (very common situation). It's possible to change the region of the drive 4 times, not very cool. However if you set your internal drive to 4 (Oz) you could get a USB external drive that you could set to 1 (USA) or 2 (Europe). Not perfect but should be good enough, as external drives are not bank-breaking affairs any longer. PS did you see this thread? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Cadillac Cowboy Posted August 13, 2011 Author Report Share Posted August 13, 2011 Probably you cannot. To do so requires a very dodgy procedure whereby the firmware of the drive is rewritten. I've done it but not with a Sony. Knowing Sony, they probably made it difficult if they could. However the Mats drive procedures are fairly well known (and published), it's your risk. Suppose you have two region codes you need to watch (very common situation). It's possible to change the region of the drive 4 times, not very cool. However if you set your internal drive to 4 (Oz) you could get a USB external drive that you could set to 1 (USA) or 2 (Europe). Yeah, this is what I'm thinking of doing as a bit of Googling has shown that removing the region locks is often a risky - and usually not guaranteed - procedure... Five or six years ago, I would've dedicated myself to finding a way to achieve this, but these days, DVD-based optical drives are so cheap these days that it's easier to simply buy one or more DVD-based optical drives, and configure each of them for a different region. We're unlucky in that we have DVDs from most regions, so we'll need to buy a handful of DVD-based optical drives, but at least the models we're looking at are USB-based, so they can be moved from computer-to-computer easily... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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How does one go about removing the region lock on the included optical drive?
I have a Sony VAIO VPCCB15FG with a Matshita DVD-RAM UJ8A0AS optical drive.
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