Change dvd country code to code free???

Discussion in 'General Motoring' started by Friedetzky, Sep 18, 2006.

  1. Friedetzky

    Friedetzky Guest

    Can anyone help me figure out how to change my Pacifica DVD country code
    to code free?????? Thanks:grinyes:
     
    Friedetzky, Sep 18, 2006
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  2. Friedetzky

    DeserTBoB Guest

    Ain't gonna happen.
     
    DeserTBoB, Sep 18, 2006
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  3. ooooh, what a "rocket science" answer that is, Mr. UCLA...
     
    duty-honor-country, Sep 24, 2006
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  4. Ain't gonna happen.

    To get a region free DVD player you have to do 2 things:

    1) patch out the region encoding in the DVD drive firmware. There's a group
    of people on the Internet that do this with regularity, and the vast
    majority of
    DVD drives have region free patched firmware available.

    2) Patch out the region encoding in the DVD -PLAYER- software. This is
    easy to do in a computer, or you simply use DVD player software that ignores
    the DVD region codes the DVD reports. (lots of that around)

    However, #2 is where your DVD players like the Pacifica get hung up. There
    are SOME commercial DVD players out on the market that have patched
    firmware.
    There are others that have hidden menus that people have discovered. Unless
    someone has taken the trouble to crack the Pacifica DVD player firmware, and
    release a patch, you are SOL unless you have a rom debugger and you know
    assembly language for the processor that is used in the Pacifica.

    The smart thing is to NOT buy a car with an embedded DVD player, and instead
    buy an off-the-shelf DVD player that you know has a firmware crack for it
    available, and use that with a back seat hanger. As an added bonus, these
    are
    usually cheap enough that you can afford to get 2 of them for the cost of
    the in-vehicle DVD player, so each kid can watch their own movie and they
    aren't
    fighting over a movie choice, and if one of them gets busted, it doesen't
    cost you
    a thousand bucks to have the dealer fix it.

    Ted
     
    Ted Mittelstaedt, Sep 25, 2006
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