IBM 73P4518 Installing WinDVD and viewing a DVD movie, DVD region codes, Click Intervideo WinDVD

Installing WinDVD and viewing a DVD movie

To install WinDVD, go to the ″Software″ section of the IBM USB 2.0

CD-RW/DVD-ROM Drive Software and User’s Guide Super CD.

After you install the Combo Drive and WinDVD software, you can view a DVD movie. But first you need to set the DVD region code for your DVD content.

DVD region codes

DVD region codes help protect the contents of a DVD. The world is divided into six regions and specific content can be viewed only in the appropriate region. For example, content for Region 1 can be viewed only in the U.S. and Canada.

WinDVD is also region–specific.

You can verify the region code of the content by looking at the region code symbol on the back of the content packaging.

Region code	Region
1	U.S., Canada
2	Europe, Middle East, South Africa, Japan
3	Southeast Asia, Taiwan, Korea
4	Latin America, Australia, New Zealand
5	Former Soviet Union, North Africa, India
6	People’s Republic of China

Start WinDVD by inserting the DVD into the drive. The region code is automatically set and you can view the movie. This is the initial setting.

After the region code has been set, if you insert a DVD with a different region code, you are prompted to change the region code. You can change the region code from your initial setting up to four times.

After the region code has been changed from its initial setting four times, it is fixed and can no longer be changed. Thereafter, you can play DVD content only from that region.

To display the region code status, click the WinDVD Properties button on the

WinDVD user interface. The General tab contains this information.

To change the region code, do the following:

1.Turn on your computer and start your operating system.

2.Click Start.

3.Select Programs.

4.Click Intervideo WinDVD.

5.Click the Properties icon to open the Properties window.

6.Click the General Properties tab.

7.Insert a single region DVD of the new region.

8.Select the correct region code for your country.

9.Click OK.

Chapter 7. Using the Combo Drive 7-5