This hack will ONLY work for the Phillips DVP642. 

Not all players can be modified for region free. It depends whether the guy
that wrote the firmware put some code in to allow it. If they didn't, then
you have to change the firmware. Or find someone that has hacked the
firmware and will change out the roms for you, or since some units are flash
upgradable maybe you could get the hacked rom code on disk and update your
unit.

Anyway, I haven't researched the DMR-ES40V to see if it has a simple "back
door" hack, like the 642. 

Cheers
Gary


-----Original Message-----
From: audities-owner@smoe.org [mailto:audities-owner@smoe.org] On Behalf Of
garypig@aim.com
Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2006 2:03 AM
To: audities@smoe.org
Subject: Re: Region 2 encoding


<<  1. Turn on the player.
2. Open the tray.
3. Press the following sequence on the remote:
7 8 9 OK 0
4. The number 0 will appear on the lower left side of your screen.
5. Your player is now region free! Put in a DVD and enjoy! :)

NOTE: The 0 in the sequence above represents the region code. 0 = region
free. If you want to change your player to just a specific region code,
replace the 0 with the region number you want.  >>


.....and
Wh'appens if you don't have an "OK" button on yer remote??

(I gotta very new Panasonic DMR-ES40V DVD/VHS player/recorder combo).


Please lemme know how to hack;
wanna be able to watch all those foreign Puffy etc. DVD's someday someway
y'know,


Gary  "and YESSIR, Jaimie!  Send down lotsa Rave Anthologies asap
(here's hoping my writing/producing/playing/publishing/singing fine 
print
is all intact this time ;-)"  Pig


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