Locking DVD to Region 2 ?

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Brownz @ Work

Is there any way the regional DVD encoding can be permanently set to Region
2 either at build time or after desktop deployment ?

Policy ? Reg Fragment ?
 
Changing the region can only be accomplished 5 times on any CD/DVD before
the user must return it to the manufacturer. So, in your case, just make 5
changes and no more can be done. (Just make sure the last one is to the
region you want to be permanent.)
 
Brownz said:
Is there any way the regional DVD encoding can be permanently set to
Region 2 either at build time or after desktop deployment ?

Policy ? Reg Fragment ?
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Your employees can easily circumvent this.
 
Brownz @ Work said:
Jerry wrote:
Changing the region can only be accomplished 5 times on any CD/DVD
before the user must return it to the manufacturer. So, in your case,
just make 5 changes and no more can be done. (Just make sure the last
one is to the region you want to be permanent.)
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Thanks Jerry, I know how RCE works and how many changes you get before a
user calls our customer support.
But that's not the answer I was looking for, I don't really relish doing a
manual change across a 1500 user network located on various sites..... !
 
Yeah, never thought of this aspect, but this seems like another half-baked
design, one which makes it possible for an employee to ruin the DVD drive in
a laptop simply by playing imported DVDs. (Or just using the computer
overseas) They probably wouldn't realise they were doing anything wrong,
either.

Perhaps this design-flaw should be taken-up with the media companies who
insisted on this idiotic feature in the first place.
 
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