Does anyone know if this is typical of bluray drives and if there are any hacks to defeat it? I'd like to have the flexibility to buy region B blurays from time to time without having to buy an entirely different drive to do it after only 2 such purchases.Īlso is there any trick to authoring a backup of a region B movie that would play in a region A player? If I use MakeMKV to rip does that strip the region coding and then I can author with AVCHDCoder just like I would for a region A backup? Or will the region B coding still be there so that the backup won't play unless I use something else to change or strip it? Except I just noticed in the manual of my bluray drive (LG BE14NU40) that I can only change the region coding of the drive up to 5 times and then it freezes to the last region selected and can no longer be changed.

I rip all my movies to my server to watch through XBMC and for the first time I've bought a few region B imports from the UK thinking that it wouldn't be any problem ripping them either.

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