A couple of months ago I ordered a complete DVD set of the excellent BBC six-part documentary TV series, The Story of India, as a gift for my parents. I had to buy it from Amazon UK since it wasn’t available in the US. Of course, I completely forgot that UK DVDs are Region 2-encoded, which means that when we sat down to watch them tonight, my parents’ Pioneer player rejected the discs.
Fortunately, my parents also have an Apex AD-3201 DVD Player in their bedroom that my mom uses for watching Hindi DVDs, and Apex Digital has kept up their wonderful tradition of building in secret cheat codes (I fucking love these guys!) to unlock abilities like Macrovision quashing and region unlocking:
- Power on the DVD player.
- Hit eject.
- 8, 4, 2, 1 on the remote
- Select ’9′ on the secret menu which pops up (and disable Macrovision for good measure).
- Done.
I swapped the DVD players so we could watch everything on the big screen downstairs, and now we’re completely engrossed, three hours and three episodes in to the series.
Respect the skills, bitches.
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