Hi Guys, over on the AVS site a member came across a hiden menu in the BH100:
We think it may be away to unlock it for region codeing,
maybe someone here can help.
here is his screen shot of the codes
CAMDS: Australia
And here is mine
Nashou66: USA
you can get to it by pressing : Pause 1,4,7,2 with no disc in tray.
we are trying to get different region to post the numbers so we can maybe figure out which ones control the differnt regions and or PAl and NTSC output.
I did some more testing. It seems like byte 4 is controlling region. Bytes 1 and 2 doesn't seem to affect behavior. I changed byte 4 to 02, and now I can play both region 1 and region 2 DVDs. Region 1 outputs 1080i/59.95 and region 2 outputs 1080i/50.00, so that's good.
You need to reboot the player after changing to a DVD from a different region; there is some boot-up logic that decides which framerate to use.
This is my EEPROM: 55 53 00 02 00 05 00 40
In this setting, the 480i/p settings are removed from the setup menu and replaced with 576i/p settings. However, I still managed get the player to output 480p by booting it with a region 1 DVD.
Not sure how Bluray playback is affected by these settings. I don't have any non-US BD.
Quote:
I doubt these settings alter the BD Region code. I bet that is held elsewhere.
So to confirm, with it set to 55 53 00 02 00 05 00 40, you can now play? -
1. Region 1 SD DVDs
2. Region 2 SD DVDs
3. NTSC SD DVDs
4. PAL SD DVDs
And don't have to alter it again, once set?
If so that's excellent. Thanks again.
the only thing is you need to turn off player with the next region disc in it when it starts up and it will change back and forth depending on disc being played from start up or last disc played.
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Link Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 7:37 pm Post subject:
Just got my first region B Blu ray disc "breaking and entering" and it played no problem. So it seems this player is BD region free out of the box. I have a DEC 2006 build date. Anyone who has an extensive collection of HD DVD's and wants a great player should try to get this before they are all gone.
Athanasios _________________ Don't blame your underwear for your crooked ass~ unknown Greek philosopher
"The government can't control the economy without controlling the people" RR
One Smart Dog!!! Tom Bauerle to Andre Cuomo" Elliot Spitzer Screwed some Prostitutes, you screwed the Constitution" On his call to Cuomo to Resign!!!
Link Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2009 9:31 pm Post subject:
did you guys know you can rip hd-dvds to PC and burn to a bd-r bd disc and playback on the LG?, it recognizes it as a hd-dvd structure even though it is on a bd-r, so for those than want to dump their hd-dvd collection and keep trucking with bd might be interested in that, only works on the LG
would love to get a hd-sdi mod done on one of these so we can get a 4:2:2 output, as far as I know the unit only does RGB via HDMI
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Link Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2009 9:55 pm Post subject:
Gary M. wrote:
did you guys know you can rip hd-dvds to PC and burn to a bd-r bd disc and playback on the LG?, it recognizes it as a hd-dvd structure even though it is on a bd-r, so for those than want to dump their hd-dvd collection and keep trucking with bd might be interested in that, only works on the LG
would love to get a hd-sdi mod done on one of these so we can get a 4:2:2 output, as far as I know the unit only does RGB via HDMI
-Gary
Gary why would you want to dump a hd dvd disk when you own a combo player ? Even more odd would be to physically have the hd-dvd disk then rip and burn to an overpriced bd-rbd disk all to just playback on the same player.
Joined: 12 Jan 2007 Posts: 12968 Location: West Seneca NY
TV/Projector: Marquee 8000, 8500 And a 9500LC RetroIV , 2 Longbow 8500 Ultras(2004!!)Hd145's , Ampro 3600, a G90!!
Link Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2009 10:43 pm Post subject:
Bruce 09 wrote:
Gary M. wrote:
did you guys know you can rip hd-dvds to PC and burn to a bd-r bd disc and playback on the LG?, it recognizes it as a hd-dvd structure even though it is on a bd-r, so for those than want to dump their hd-dvd collection and keep trucking with bd might be interested in that, only works on the LG
would love to get a hd-sdi mod done on one of these so we can get a 4:2:2 output, as far as I know the unit only does RGB via HDMI
-Gary
Gary why would you want to dump a hd dvd disk when you own a combo player ? Even more odd would be to physically have the hd-dvd disk then rip and burn to an overpriced bd-rbd disk all to just playback on the same player.
I must be missing something !
Bruce
Not sure if this is true or not but i heard that BD is more durable than HD-DVDs (burned ones). not sure
though.
Athanasios _________________ Don't blame your underwear for your crooked ass~ unknown Greek philosopher
"The government can't control the economy without controlling the people" RR
One Smart Dog!!! Tom Bauerle to Andre Cuomo" Elliot Spitzer Screwed some Prostitutes, you screwed the Constitution" On his call to Cuomo to Resign!!!
Joined: 08 Mar 2006 Posts: 710 Location: Kamloops BC, Canada
Link Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2009 12:25 am Post subject:
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Athan made one point, another is that you can dump the hd-dvd collection that has came to a end and still have the movies
I see you guys.
I would bet a penny that a hd dvd ripped, then burned to BD disk is NOT better or more durable than the original HD-DVDs ! and you would be hard pressed to sell them used for more than you can Buy Raw Bd disks and cases .
I think it would make more sense to just paint the hd-dvds blu than go through all that trouble .
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