Region 1 DVD wont play in the UK .
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Hi ,
Ive recently bought a few DVD from the USA as they are not available here .
They wont play on my DVD all i get is wrong region .
Is there something I can do to get them to play ?
Ive tried them on all my DVD players and they wont work.
Ive recently bought a few DVD from the USA as they are not available here .
They wont play on my DVD all i get is wrong region .
Is there something I can do to get them to play ?
Ive tried them on all my DVD players and they wont work.
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If you have a quality brand like Sony , Pioneer etc you will need a special service remote that can alter the firmware.
These can usually be found on Ebay for about £12 but there is also a website that does them for £20.
If you want to play them on your PC you can buy a few programs that will make your PC dvd drive multiregion unless it has a Matsushita drive made in the last 5 years in which case you can't hack those
If you post the make and model here I'm sure someone will give you a direct link to a hack
If you buy a really cheap and nasty budget brand it will almost certainly be multi-region out of the box without any need for a hack.
Less than twenty - will prob already be multi-region.
Less than hundred - easy to make multi-region with a hack.
Over hundred - might not have a hack, but should be able to be soldered to make it multi-region.
Yes that's basically why the region 1 disc won't play
Neither of the £19.95 players my daughter got from Argos and Tesco were MR out of the box.
Only one had a hack too.
There are plenty of sub £100 players from the likes of Pioneer etc that require a service remote and are not hackable with their own remote
Okay - less than £19 - will prob be multi-region out of the box.
I built myself a Sony Multi Region tool - works on all the NS series, and the current ones as well.
Just sit it in front of the DVD and press a single button, a few seconds and it's done.
It's bound to be PIC-based, Nigel's done some great tutorials on using PIC microcontrollers
I thought so. Any more details, pretty please?
I'd thought about having a go at building something similar, using the output data from Blank Frank's WINSAMP program to duplicate remote controls using a PIC. Could come in useful at work, where we have a few projector remotes that could be costly to replace...
Edit: I know what you're going to say... look at tutorial number five! I don't know what codes need to be sent to make the DVD player multi-region though...
PM me and I'll send you the source code.
Very generous of you. Thank you.
PM on it's way
I have done this with both a NS78 DVD player and a BDP360 BluRay player (but just for DVDs - the hack does not make BluRays region free!)
I can supply details if anyone wants!
Do you know if this procedure can be done with Samsung BD-P2500 as the normal remote hack doesnt work?