ASUS BW-16D1HT (Europe) - flashing advice needed

[JustletmePlay!]

Hello gents! I am in Europe, and I am a super noob.

After some reading through this forum and the internet, I decided to put a ASUS BW-16D1HT in my HTPC to play Blu Ray DVD's. I have some from US and some from Europe. I have Cyberlink Power DVD ultra and wanted to just watch what I bought, only to have come across that I cant watch it because of some region locked nonsense.

I am not much into ripping, may do one or two here and there if I feel like it. For now my main goal is I just want to be able to pop in my DVD's and Blu Ray discs and start watching, thats all I want really.

Where do I start? Can I make the drive region free so it can just do its job, I dont want to keep changing regions from A to B as I have discs from both.

Can somebody kindly point me to the right direction?

[MartyMcNuts]

Hello gents! I am in Europe, and I am a super noob.

After some reading through this forum and the internet, I decided to put a ASUS BW-16D1HT in my HTPC to play Blu Ray DVD's. I have some from US and some from Europe. I have Cyberlink Power DVD ultra and wanted to just watch what I bought, only to have come across that I cant watch it because of some region locked nonsense.

I am not much into ripping, may do one or two here and there if I feel like it. For now my main goal is I just want to be able to pop in my DVD's and Blu Ray discs and start watching, thats all I want really.

Where do I start? Can I make the drive region free so it can just do its job, I dont want to keep changing regions from A to B as I have discs from both.

Can somebody kindly point me to the right direction?

No you can't make it region free. The best way around this is not to use PowerDVD but to integrate an unofficial player such as VLC or MPC-HC etc with MakeMKV which is then used as the on-the-fly decrypted so you can watch the movie.