gHacks Technology News | Latest Tech News, Software And Tutorials » region free http://www.ghacks.net A technology news blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:51:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Make your DVD Drive play all DVDshttp://www.ghacks.net/2007/12/30/make-your-dvd-drive-play-all-dvds/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/12/30/make-your-dvd-drive-play-all-dvds/#comments Sat, 29 Dec 2007 23:02:10 +0000 Martin Brinkmann http://www.ghacks.net/2007/12/30/make-your-dvd-drive-play-all-dvds/ Today I had a problem playing a Region 2 DVD on my Region 1 DVD drive installed in Windows. I was asked to change the Region of my DVD drive to play the DVD movie and that I would only have 3 changes left become the change would become permanent. This was a relative new DVD drive that I had installed in my computer, I knew what to do to make the DVD drive play DVDs from all regions without this irritating message.

I had to update the firmware of the DVD drive with a altered firmware that would make the DVD drive region free. Here is how I did it. First I wrote down the exact type of my drive. You can find that information by pressing Windows Pause, clicking on Hardware and there on Device Manager.

Locate the DVD / CD-Rom drives entry and expand it. If you look at the picture below mine is called GSA-H10N and was manufactured by LG. (You find the company logo on the drive itself normally).

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Now that I had the information needed I went to the Firmware page which is a repository for many altered firmwares for a lot of DVD drives. I searched for my drive and found it on that page. I downloaded the new firmware and executed the file. I was able to change the firmware with the click of a button (the only button available is Update) and the new region free drive was available immediately.

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I did check the region of my dvd drive with Drive Region.

]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2007/12/30/make-your-dvd-drive-play-all-dvds/feed/ 3 Enable region free mode on your DVD playerhttp://www.ghacks.net/2007/04/15/enable-region-free-mode-on-your-dvd-player/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/04/15/enable-region-free-mode-on-your-dvd-player/#comments Sun, 15 Apr 2007 21:15:59 +0000 Martin Brinkmann http://www.ghacks.net/2007/04/15/enable-region-free-mode-on-your-dvd-player/ DVD region codes, how I hate them. I never quite understood why every player and dvd created had to have a region code implemented to prevent playback of DVDs from other regions. If I was to move from the United States to Germany or Britain I would have to import all DVDs for my US DVD player because I would not be able to play DVDs sold in Germany or Britain on that player. The other possibility would be to buy a European DVD player which would not play my US DVDs that I purchased back in the States.

This is not really an alternative if you ask me and a better easier way is to hack the DVD player and enable region free mode which plays DVDs from all regions of this world. You probably think that this is a complicated process which requires knowledge and time – it is not. Region free mode can be enabled on most DVD players by simply using the remote to enter a certain code that enabled the region free mode.

Sounds probably to good to be true, what do you think ? All you need to do is go to the videohelp website and search their database that contains hacks for almost 5000 DVD players. I can’t guarantee that your DVD player is among the 5000 listed but the chance is pretty good. Want an example to see how easy it is ?

I just picked one random DVD player from Samsung with the modell number DVD-HD870.

  • turn on dvd player
  • make sure there’s no dvd in closed tray
  • press ‘repeat’ button
  • ‘no disc’ disappears in left corner
  • press 29334 if you have a R1 player
  • 57538 if you have a R2 player
  • 56732 if you have a R3 player
  • 76884 if you have a R4 player
  • 53814 if you have a R5 player
  • 24462 if you have a R6 player
  • current region code is visible in left corner
  • press 9 for code free
  • press ‘Standby’
  • enjoy!!
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