From: Lundgren (email suppressed)
Date: Mon Feb 15 2010 - 04:32:25 PST
It seems to be sold only in the US?
I'm looking for something within the EU.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Casey Pegram" <email suppressed>
To: <email suppressed>
Sent: Monday, February 15, 2010 12:45 PM
Subject: Re: by Brakhage bluray
> From what I understand, the Oppo players need a hardware mod, if it's even
> doable.
>
> On the other hand, the Momitsu BDP899 (and its many renamed/cloned
> derivatives from other companies) can be made blu-ray region-free with a
> remote code. Probably the most readily available 'clone' of the Momitsu at
> the moment is the Sherwood BDP-5004.
>
> You enter in a code on the remote: 9735DB where D is your desired DVD
> region and B is your desired bluray region (where A=1, B=2, C=3). So to
> have region-free DVD and region B bluray playback, you would enter in
> 973502. Once the player is powered down, it defaults back to region A for
> bluray, but remembers DVD as region 0. The player also does upscaling from
> standard DVD to 1080p over HDMI (not sure about component) and converts
> PAL to NTSC.
>
> It's true that region-free BD players are less common at the moment than
> region-free DVD players, but by no means are they particularly hard to
> obtain if you know which ones to look for. Videohelp as someone else
> mentioned is a good resource.
>
> Casey Pegram
>
>
> On Feb 15, 2010, at 6:19 AM, Lundgren wrote:
>
>> Can the OPPO players be made region-free with only firmware mods?
>>
>> I thought all players on the market required hardware-mods.
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ken Bawcom" <email suppressed>
>> To: <email suppressed>
>> Sent: Monday, February 15, 2010 12:57 AM
>> Subject: Re: by Brakhage bluray
>>
>>
>>> Unfortunately it seems that the "Blu-ray Disc Association" is far more
>>> aggressive about enforcing the requirement that all Blu-ray players be
>>> region encoded, so region-free Blu-ray players are rather scarce. Many
>>> manufacturers who had made region-free, or easily converted to
>>> region-free, DVD players are not doing that with their Blu-ray players.
>>> Oppo, known for reference quality players at reasonable prices, players
>>> that converted between PAL and NTSC, and could easily be made
>>> region-free, now require firmware mods, or physical mods, to be
>>> region-free. One reliable source for modified players is JVB Digital.
>>> Ken B.
>>> Quoting Chuck Kleinhans <email suppressed>:
>>>> Blu-Ray regions are different than DVD regions. There's a fairly good
>>>> discussion on Wikipedia: Blue-ray Disc.
>>>>
>>>> Chuck Kleinhans
>>>>
>>>>
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