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**janeloveslifenow** · 10-02-2007, 02:49 AM

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It might be possible to obtain codes (see above) to override your DVD players firmware, is not always available for every manufacturer.

Be carefull switching regions/palyback modes, some players have a locking system that only allows three (or other number of) changes, after that you are stuck with the settings on the machine, there is no going back unless you have a soldering iron handy.

About reseting your players firmware, it talks about regions but you may find some stuff on PAL and NSTC, the warnings listed below still apply:

I have heard there are hacks to change DVD players to region-free players?
Yes, but all of these come with no guarantees that they will not permanently destroy the DVD player, and all void any warranties on the product - so it is a matter of "let the tryer beware". But there is nothing illegal about using them, as the encoding system is not a matter of law but of trade agreements. While many players have their region encodings set permanently in hardware, many players are designed for all markets and only set to a particular region before they are shipped through a programmable ROM encoding, and these setting can be changed after the fact. In most cases these players allow either:

1) resetting to a region-free status through keying in program commands on the remote,

2) resetting to a particular region through keying in program commands on the remote,

3) resetting to region-free status through the operation of special code burned onto a CD and played on the DVD player, and

4) resetting to a particular region through the operation of special code burned onto a CD.

If you are still interested after all these warnings, you can find more information at dvdrhelp.com where you can enter any particular DVD player model into their search engine, and it will output all the information on this model from their database.

10-02-2007, 02:49 AM	#18
janeloveslifenow Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 422 Senior Member	dvdrhelp.com It might be possible to obtain codes (see above) to override your DVD players firmware, is not always available for every manufacturer. Be carefull switching regions/palyback modes, some players have a locking system that only allows three (or other number of) changes, after that you are stuck with the settings on the machine, there is no going back unless you have a soldering iron handy. About reseting your players firmware, it talks about regions but you may find some stuff on PAL and NSTC, the warnings listed below still apply: I have heard there are hacks to change DVD players to region-free players? Yes, but all of these come with no guarantees that they will not permanently destroy the DVD player, and all void any warranties on the product - so it is a matter of "let the tryer beware". But there is nothing illegal about using them, as the encoding system is not a matter of law but of trade agreements. While many players have their region encodings set permanently in hardware, many players are designed for all markets and only set to a particular region before they are shipped through a programmable ROM encoding, and these setting can be changed after the fact. In most cases these players allow either: 1) resetting to a region-free status through keying in program commands on the remote, 2) resetting to a particular region through keying in program commands on the remote, 3) resetting to region-free status through the operation of special code burned onto a CD and played on the DVD player, and 4) resetting to a particular region through the operation of special code burned onto a CD. If you are still interested after all these warnings, you can find more information at dvdrhelp.com where you can enter any particular DVD player model into their search engine, and it will output all the information on this model from their database.
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