Is the region of a DVD drive stored on the drive or the computer? If I have a laptop with a removable DVD drive, could I buy two drives and set one to the American region and one to the European region?

I thought most computer DVD drives were region free?

jwsiii

It is stored in your dvd drive. Rather than installing two dvd roms, I suggest that you download an appropirate "firmware" so as to make your existing dvd rom region free. My Toshiba dvd rom is now all-region compatible.

You can search firmware at:


http://forum.rpc1.org/index.php?sid=baacbe08d533a43f59626ede699da0ca

Remember - you have to know the exact model of your dvd rom.
best,

Also, most drives allow you to change the region 3-4 times over the life of the drive. There is a way around this limitation though. If you download the firmware and re-flash the drive (see teguy's post above mine) it resets the region-change counter to 0 and you can start doing it again.

It's pretty lame, but it works.