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

Posted: Sat Feb 08, 2025 3:34 pm
by 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? :(

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

Posted: Sat Feb 08, 2025 9:10 pm
by MartyMcNuts
JustletmePlay! wrote:
Sat Feb 08, 2025 3:34 pm
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.