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Making Your Hardware DVD Player Region-Free	DVD DIGEST

Making your hardware DVD player/decoder card region free is actually quite easy. While strictly speaking, most of the tools below aren't really making your hardware DVD player region free, but rather, giving you the ability to change the region settings of these players without decreasing the region-change counter, effectively allowing to change the region settings of the hardware DVD player for an unlimited number of times. Please note that your DVD-ROM drive will need to be region-free before any of the tools below will work.

What you should do is that everytime you want to play a DVD movie, first check which region it is from, and then start the tools below to change the region setting of your hardware DVD player to match the region of the movie, and launch the DVD playback software within these tools (please refer to their documentations for more information). Do this everytime you play a DVD that doesn't match your player's current region settings, and you should be able to do this for an unlimited number of times (hence, become region-free).

If your player is not listed below, then you may want to try to rip the DVD to your hard-drive, strip out the region information in the process (to make the ripped movie region-free), and then playback the movie on your hard-drive. For more information, please refer to RipHelp's DVD Ripping Guide (use the "Rip the Entire DVD" section).

Below are a list of the most popular hardware DVD players/decoder cards, and the tools you will need to use to make them region-free (or change their region settings for an unlimited number of times) :




Hardware DVD Decoder :	Region-free Tool :
ALi M3309	ALi M3309
Chromatic Research Mpact2	Remote Selector
Cinemaster C-Hardware cards	Cinemaster C-Hardware hacks
Cinemaster S-Hardware cards	Cinemaster S-Hardware hacks
Creative Encore Dxr2 (CT7120/CT7220)	Remote Selector
Creative Encore Dxr3 (CT7230/CT7240)	DXR-3 RegSet Remote Selector
Creative PC-DVD Inlay (CT7160)	Remote Selector
Jaton Magic DVD	Zone Selector 3.0
LuxSonor LS-220	Remote Selector
Margi DVD-TO-GO PCMCIA	Margi DVD-TO-GO Region Patcher 4.14
Mpact 3DVD	Margi DVD-TO-GO Region Patcher 4.14
Realmagic Hollywood 2	Realmagic Hollywood 2
RealMagic Hollywood+	Remote Selector or Universal Selector or Zone Selector
TeraMovie DVD	Remote Selector
Yuan MPG-200C	Yuan MPG-200C

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INDEX	DVD DIGEST

• Introduction / Glossary / Basics
• Detecting your region status
• Making your DVD-ROM drive region-free
• Hardware or Software
• Making your Hardware DVD player region-free <=
• Making your Software DVD player region-free
• More Help