Blu-Ray burner as player

[mmace]

hi guys, hope you all had a good Christmas

santa brought me a Sony BWU-100A dual layer Blu-Ray burner that works perfectly as a BD player, at the moment I only have 1 film but will be making my own and buying more as more get released (need cheap discs, but put that in a different section that no one reads)

my question is, does anyone know a way around the region coding on these drives like there's the small pieces of software for DVD-ROM drives?
my version of powerDVD Ultra says I have 5 region changes left, although I've not set it to region B yet and that's the disc I've bought (think some are region free at the moment)

cheers in advance for any help

[PhilEnfield]

Dont know if it works on these drives, but have you tried AnyDVD ?

[mmace]

yeah, it doesn't work, that's what I used for my DVD-ROM drive before

cheers

[PhilEnfield]

Might be worth asking them if they intend to provide support in a future release :

http://www.slysoft.com/en/contact.html

If you find anything out, please post back and let us know .

[backup2k1]

blue ray is not going to last as there no money to be made
its going to be a dead format with in a years time :(

check out this program if it can help you

DVD Region+CSS Free

[mmace]

blue ray is not going to last as there no money to be made
its going to be a dead format with in a years time :(all in your opinion of course. with all major releases being in that format and a massive back catalogue of films being built up I don't understand how you can say that, but that's your opinion.

[Lazza]

Agreed, only time will tell at the end of the day and pricing, or the lowering of it, will be a major factor in the outcome of which format wins the battle.

[mmace]

Might be worth asking them if they intend to provide support in a future release :
http://www.slysoft.com/en/contact.html
If you find anything out, please post back and let us know .
email from them:

Hi,
Sorry. This is not planned for the near future.
Best regards,
John Smith
Customer Support

[PhilEnfield]

That's a shame ........ thanks for posting back though.

[Lazza]

Must admit that seems a bit strange, maybe Slysoft know something we don't as I would have thought support would have been definate within a short period of time.