Major Newbie here, I'm buying a internal DVD burner for my brother-in-law in Costa Rica. I was going to buy him the one I just bought for my computer, a Sony DRU-830A which has been working great burning dual layer for 8.5g or crunching to 4.7g disks. Here is my question. I'm region 1 and Costa Rica is region 4. If I buy the burner here and bring it with me to give to him, will he experience any problems down there trying to burn region 4 disks to a burner bought in region 1? Or does it depend on firmware/software? ANY help would be appreciated. PS. The sony burner comes with NERO 7. Thanks
OK, you won't be able to read other region disks (4) in a region 1 burner. You will need to make it region free. See this... http://www.pcreview.co.uk/articles/Hardware/Make_your_DVD_drive_region_free/ And to fine your region free firmware (if there is any for your drive) then you ask here for it. Also, if your drive cannot be "region free enabled" then there is software that will effectively make your drive region free, such as AnyDVD (when running in the background).
Thanks for all the info. I haven't bought the sony internal burner for him yet. Are there any other good internal burners you could recommend that are already region free or would made (easily) region free without alot of hassle. It needs to be internal and I'm willing to spend up to 200 dollars. Him living in Region 4 Costa Rica makes this difficult. Suggestions? Thanks again Ripper. Hadrian
Well any of the drives on this site can be made region free. http://tdb.rpc1.org/ Now, brands I reccomend are NEC LiteON Pioneer - My fav. Things to look out for are Bitsetting/Boooktyping Lightscribe (optional) - (Means you can print onto the disks with your burners laser, however, new technology and not brilliant yet.
