I suspect every time COMODO installation/installation interferes with region code count it will keep dropping. Now I don’t expect to move to another country, but I do expect to travel, and so get blu ray from who knows what region codes and I do not wish to limit my options. Now this is serious to me because if you check the optical drive manufacturer site (M A T S H I T A, or Panasonic) once the region code change count expires it cannot be reset even by physically changing the drive to another machine, only the manufacturer can access it.

And here comes my concern:Īfter that when I checked the blu ray region code again the count had dropped from 5 to 4 changes remaining! Inmediately powerdvd stopped playing blu ray and the region code went back to unselected, and changes remaining dropped again to 0.Īnother sypmtom is and was that while CIS is installed you have to doubleclick powerdvd icon TWICE before it opens, while without it it comes up instantaneous. I suspected of the firewall so I installed the antivirus only. Now as I was saying, after I saw I could finally set the region code I thought then I could reinstall comodo as that was already set. That means COMODO was already blocking the region code access of the optical drive even without Powerdvd software ever doing anything.įurthermore at the link I provided there is evidence of other Blu Ray software being affected, not only Powerdvd. Once I uninstalled COMODO and confirmed blu ray functionality, Powerdvd for the first time ever (This computer came with vista 64, I did not have any blu ray discs in my possession, then I redeemed my windows 7 coupon as soon as it was available, still without any blu ray discs, then during the holidays I got my first blu ray movie “Superman Returns”, it did not play, I contacted Alienware support and they were baffled, provided me with a couple of powerdvd patches to no avail, contacted cyberlink support and they were baffled, provided me with even newer software and upgrades (originally I had powerdvd8, now powerdvd9 no charge from cyberlink) to no avail) asked me for my Blu ray region. I already tried the following even before posting my first post in this thread: I’m having some concerns about the consequences to me and my equipment with too much troubleshooting on this particular problem. Ok, I have a few minutes today at least to post this.