Comments on: region-free dvd players

By: Florian

Florian — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 11:55:17 +0000

Thats too bad. The catch is that you need a real serial bus based IR device while most modern seem to be internally connected to the USB bus or some other strange bus. The program may still run and claims to working nomrally but fails silently

Maybe someone wants to port this program so you can use any IR device from within linux?

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 04:15:32 +0000

@Florian,

Thanks for the tip … tried it out, didn’t work on either one of my Sony DVD players Ah well.

By: Florian

Florian — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 08:46:03 +0000

I was in a similar situation. My Dad brought some rare DVD he always wanted to have from a distant country. Of course he was not able to play it in his Sony DVD player and the concept of region codes was completely beyond his understandings (understandable). When searching for a solution online a stumbled across this site: http://www.selen.org/sonydvd.html . If you have a laptop with IR or any other IR device that can be run from DOS this method really seems to magically unlock these players. So if you can catch one of the players listed you might as well go along with a Sony after all.

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 18:09:24 +0000

Yah, I’ve already searched … no unlock codes for mine.

By: nightmorph

nightmorph — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 06:56:28 +0000

An alternative to region-free players is just making sure that your player is unlockable. Basically all standalone DVD players are unlockable; the engineers always include that hidden feature. You just need to Google search for the unlock code. I did that for my Toshiba DVD player, and it seems to work. My next task is to find a cheap price for a certain Region 2 DVD .