hi all, a big cry out for "socoooooooorrrrrrrrooooo" ("heeeeeeeeellllllppp") on the dvd scene.

i need somebody to lend me an american dvd so that i can test my new dvd player to see if it is realy multizone.

you see, i got an amazing deal on a no-brand dvd (a "h�her" to be exact ) at the "fnac" for only 59� and it is awesome for the money it costs.

both the employee at "fnac" and he users manual say all i need to do to switch back and forth between "pal" (european playback format) and "ntsc" (north american playback format) is eject the disc tray and hit the "pal/ntsc" button on the remote.

could it be that easy???

seems way too easy as i heard one had to have a technician open these bad boys and do some chip magic to get them to do the multizone thang

so, can anyone lend me a dvd from the usa???

Chica, is your season 1 of "24" from the usa?

willing to lend it to me? if it works no prob, i also want to copy the whole thing as i have a dvd burner on my laptop.

i am willing to meet anyone anywhere to get my hands on a dvd from the states for the big test.

heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelllllllllllllllpppppp?

saludos,
jer...

I have one. Amadeus.

I'll take it to the Sunday get together or to the Muffin Moving Madness on Saturday.

- Roland

Roland, you are the king!!!

god i love this board, took all of 15 minutes to get my hands on that dvd :cheers:

hey, and i never saw amadeus either.

tomorrow (adriano moving day) would be perfect!!!

���gracias mil!!!

saludos,
jer...

p.d. Chica, i still want to borrow your season of "24" to make copies.

The Pal/ntsc issue is not the only thing to be concerned with. That just switches the output to match your appropriate TV requirement. It's REGION ENCODING that matters....USA is region 1, Europe is region 2, etc.

A multi-region player (or hacked will play multiple regions. Pay a visit to www.dvdrhelp.com and select the "DVD players" link to find your specific player and to see if there is a way to make it region free (ie: play discs from USA and Europe).
Many players have a trick you can do in the setup menu to change the region

Surprisingly, it is mostly the cheaper Chinese made players that this works on.

hey Aluche, thanks.

i had a feeling there was more to it all, especially when i popped a spanish dvd in the player, changed it to "ntsc" and it worked fine

so, at that www.dvdrhelp.com site they list 2 h�her dvd players ...

� Hoher T010E -----> No hacks
� Hoher T020 -----> 3 hacks

... and in the detailed hack coments it stated for the T020 model (page at www.dvdrhelp.com/dvdhacks.php?dvdplayer=Hoher+T020&Search=Search )...

quote:

To remove the Region Protection:
-Switch On the player
-Take care that there is no disc inserted
-Press: Menu, 2, 0, 1, 1, Then 0 for Multiregion
And that's all.
-------------------------------------------------
French translation
-------------------------------------------------
Pour d�zoner l'appareil:
-Allumer le lecteur
-Veiller � ce qu'il ne contienne pas de disque
-Appuyer sur: Menu, 2, 0, 1, 1, Puis 0 pour multizone
Et c'est tout.

and for the (my) T030 model...

quote:

For Hoher DVD players models T030/T035. Please, see below for regional setting:

1.- open the disc tray

2.- press 3622734

3.- select region 0-9 ("o" = region free)

4.- reset*

*I tested the hack and didn't have to hit reset,the screenjust said "all", which I took to mean, all regions, and that was that. It works.

so, it would seem that there is still hope, will try hacking tomorrow and let you all know.

in the meantime, Aluche and Roland can be co-kings

thanks jared!!!

saludos,
jer...

allright, so i could not sleep thinking about trying the de-zone thang mentioned above.

3:00am: i got up, turned on the dvd player, opened the dvd tray, pressed "3622734" and then "0" and i'll be a multizone dvd player owner as noted above, i did not have to press "reset" (lucky me since my remote has no "reset" button ).

it flashed "region free" on the upper left hand corner of my TV screen

looks like i am good to go, will test with Roland's amadeus dvd tomorrow but it looks good so far :cheers:

can't believe i was actually thinking of dumping 250� on a multizone dvd just 4 months ago

saludos & thanks again for the link Aluche
jer...

p.d. on the down side, when i turned on the tv, "brewsters millions" was starting so now i just HAVE to watch it, A CLASSIC!!! :jeje:

Hey jer...

Sure, you can borrow the 24 DVD set. We�ll talk on Sunday about it. As you can imagine, I�m not lending it to "just anyone" . It�s from the USA... 6 DVDs in all... a total of 19 hours of programming.

We have two cheap DVD players that we bought for about 60� each as well. Chico got online, got the cracked code and now they are both region free.

Curiously enough, the DVD player on my laptop was not region free...so Chico to the rescue again, got online and got a program to "kill" the region code and now the DVD player on my laptop is also region free.

Gotta love technology!!

well,,,gotta love these TECHIES!!

all hail Roland and Aluche.

Aluche for the crack and Roland for lending me his "Reefer Maddness" dvd :jeje: from usa.

hmmmmmm... "crack" and "reefer", what have i become :jeje:

it is a total success.

saludos,
jer...

Glad you got it working buddy! I'm gonna be in Madrid first week of April so I'll watch the board for get togethers. I'm going to Hammam for sure

cool, will watch out for ya.

we should be playing volleyball at the retiro again by then too

saludos,
jer...