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honsbeek

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9. July 2005 @ 05:43

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Hello,

I was wondering if there are ways or stand alone dvd players for that matter that let any region DVD play on the single system.

I bought my DVD stand alone player Philips here in Korea and I think I can only play Region 3 DVD's on there, am I mistaken?? Are there ways for me to play a Region 1 (US) DVD on my player and NOT have the distorted picture??? Please tell me the ways around it.

I Thought about just buying a DVD/ Divx DVD player, would that help in any way for me to also view Region 1 and Region 3 DVD's???

I know about Regionfree software for the PC and it works just wonderful there, but how about stand alone DVD player, please enlighten me ...

Thank you So Much

Ralph

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laddyboy

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9. July 2005 @ 05:57

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Yes there are region-free dvd players. Some manufacturers in the "old" days cludged the region restriction feature and it was easy to remove the restriction through flashing the ROM or simply activating a built-in region-free mode via remote keypress combinations. Now people simply replace ROMs with region-free ROMs. You can either send your player to them for a replacement or buy a player already modified. Search Google or any other search engine for region-free players. The other way is to simply backup your DVD. Most software will strip the macrovision encoding and make the disk region-free when doing the backup. You can also just rip the disk to your hard drive and then use any number of software players to view it.

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honsbeek

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9. July 2005 @ 06:47

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So ,

With replace "ROM" you mean the rom chip within the stand-alone dvd player??? Who would replace this for me???

Also , Which software would backup a DVD9 for me , and so make it region free or how can I convert a Region 1 DVD to a Region 3 DVD on the PC

Thanks so much

Ralph

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laddyboy

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9. July 2005 @ 07:20

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Yes, replacing chips with chips. Go to Google and search for region-free standalone dvd players.

There would be no point in converting a Region 1 to a Region 3. Simply making the backup region-free should make it playable in all players.

DVD Decrypter can be used to rip the dvd to your hard drive making it region-free and stripped of Macrovision. It's a free download here:

http://www.afterdawn.com/software/video_software/dvd_rippers/dvd_...

DVD Shrink can be used to re-encode and shrink the size of a disk to fit on a single layer disk once the file is ripped to your hard drive. It can be downloaded free here:

http://www.afterdawn.com/software/video_software/dvd_rippers/dvd_...

Guides for using are here:

http://www.dvdplusvideo.com/tutorial007.html
http://home.comcast.net/~bbmayo/guides.htm
http://www.afterdawn.com/guides/

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baabaa

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9. July 2005 @ 13:01

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You could also see if you can locate a 'remote' hack.

These are codes that can be entered via the remote control to convert your player to region free etc.

Goto http://www.videohelp.com/dvdhacks and enter your dvd make/model and see if anyone has posted a multi region hack for your player.

Also you will need to make sure that your player/tv can play other formats of video - ie PAL/NTSC etc etc.

Hope this helps.......................

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