Macrovision is a copy protection system.. the advantage of including it is to stop people from copying. It's rather useless though because, there are several ways to get around it...it doesn't interfere with normal playing,only when being re-played after copying ..you get things like colour bleed and picture warp etc ..btw don't have region killer or dvd genie active when checking your drives with drive info ,it gives the odd false reading ..i am not sure in which country you live so it's hard to assume what's gone wrong ..if the region 2 are not for your country and you have played different regions 5 times you get locked on to whichever region was last played..effectively not being able to play other regions disks ..i wouldn't recommend drive info..try nero info tool v1.00 ,it's gives a lot more info ..
..ok assuming the disks are another countries disks(i haven't a clue where you are from) and you have a RPC-2 = Region locked drive then you need to flash it with new firmware to make it RCP-1..
here's a guide just in case
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Find your firmware update from
http://www.firmware.fr.st/
Download to your harddrive...
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Download a plain boot disc from
http://www.putergeek.com/downloads/#winme_plain
This is winME but will work for XP and should work for all versions of windows.
Follow the instructions... You will need a blank floppy.
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Open your firmware file and copy the contents to the boot disc in drive A Write down the name of the .bin files
eg. Bide00.bin
You may have more than one. Also make note of if there is a file named MTKFLASH.EXE or
FLASH.EXE
You will need one of these on your disc....
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Use the "Nero info tool 1.00" found on the Utilites page
http://www.firmware.fr.st/
To find the location of your DVD drive. Run the program and then click the tab "Configuration" and write down the location of your drive. eg. "Secondary IDE, Master"
or "Secondary IDE Slave"
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Now Exit your Computer and switch off...
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Place your Boot disc in Drive A
and turn on your computer. After the computer has run through the BIOS you will see an A:/
If your DVD drive was primary master then you will type "MTKFLASH 1 w /a0 /b a:\bide00.bin" If you are using flash.exe then type "FLASH 1 w /a0 /b a:\bide00.bin"
BIDE00.bin would be whatever bin file you wrote down in step 4
If your DVD drive was primary slave then the 1 becomes a 2
If your DVD drive was secondary master then the 1 becomes a 3
If your DVD drive is secondary slave then the 1 becomes a 4 eg type "MTKFLASH 4 w /a0 /b a:\bibe00.bin
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that will flash your drive... you should get some info on the screen about the percentage complete.
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If you had a second .bin file then you need to flash again but this time you would type "MTKFLASH 4 w /a1 /b a:\bide01.bin"
Again the number after the MTKFLASH will depend on the drive location. Note that "a0" becomes "a1" and my bin file changes accordingly.
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Turn off your computer and remove the floppy. Then restart and hopefully you will be region free.
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luckily for me macrovision is not a problem .. for my stand alone dvd/vcr i have a box that sits between the dvd/vcr and the tv and re-syncs the data track and my computer dvd drive is RCP-1
i hope you get it sorted anyhow ...let me know how you get on
regards bodie