Buzzy--Bee

My MIL in New Zealand sent me a DVD of an NZ movie. But when I try to play it on my (pretty new) DVD player, it says "this disc cannot be played in your region". They dont have problems playing home made DVDs I send them - is this a problem with my DVD player or the disc they sent me?

Thanks

Buzzy

Rob Morton-Jone

Seems that you need to make your dvd player region free.

Do a search on the internet for dvd lock codes

Rob

Buzzy--Bee

Thanks Rob - guess if I'm taking the player to oz I'll have to do this anyway as I'll be buying Ozzie DVDs.

Most helpful.

Cheers

Buzzy

Rob Morton-Jone

What is the brand name and model number of your player........then i will have a look for you....

Rob

Buzzy--Bee

It's a Panasonic S-27.

Thanks very much.

Buzzy

Rob Morton-Jone

Try this........

Turn On player with no disc inserted
While pressing Shift on the remote press Setup
Press Enter twice
Move the cursor to Other
Enter the appropriate four-digit region setting, beginning with 000
Press Enter
Press Return twice
Switch unit Off for at least 3 seconds

Let me know how you get on...

Rob

Grayling

Is your's on here:

http://www.dvd.reviewer.co.uk/info/m...le.asp?Page=58

G

Buzzy--Bee

Thanks Rob, before I do this, just want to check about the region setting.

the DVD player was bought in region 2 (Europe)
the DVD comes from region 4 (NZ, Oz etc)

so what region setting should I put in? 0004? And will this mean it then won't play region 2 DVDs?

Sorry to be so unknowledgeable.....

Cheers

Buzzy

Rob Morton-Jone

Press 0004 for the NZ region and you can change it as many times as you need to....it may even give you the option of being totally region free.

Give it a go and see if it works. If not i have a web site that you can download a program to your hard drive and will automatically play any region dvd

Rob

Rob Morton-Jone

Try http://files.digital-digest.com/down...-7-0_Setup.exe for region free on your pc/lap top

Rob

Buzzy--Bee

Thanks Rob, unfortunately this didn't work as it my remote doesn't have a shift key, tried it without shift and nothing changed. Thanks for trying though.

It does play fine on my laptop and pc but we would prefer to watch it on the TV......

Thanks again,K sent

Buzzy

jib

Try this remote hack -



With no disc in player and drawer closed.

press stop, stop, setup.

then press 3,8,8,8,3 and then 0 for multiregion.

then switch player off, then back on.

Buzzy--Bee

This didnt work either I'm afraid.

Thanks for trying.

Cheers

Buzzy

Buzzy--Bee

I did a search and it isnt.

Thanks for trying

Cheers

Buzzy

steve-n-jo

Well I've got a panasonic SA-HT900, a Pioneer DV383 and a Sharp DV-620 and I can't find hacks for any of them.

Its driving me mad.

Jo