Format and write to a DVD-RW

[Scott van Looy]

Today David Fletcher did spake thusly:

> At 15:43 14/11/2006, you wrote:
>
>> Zoning is, rather foolishly, done in the drive.  It may well be done
>> elsewhere, as well, but drives can be region locked.
>
> I heard that too or maybe read it somewhere. Further is it true that the zone 
> of a drive can be changed but only a fixed, small number of times? something 
> like five or ten times?

Yep, blame America for that one. Most drives are, however, flashable to 
make them region free.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD#Region_codes

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