Thomson DTH-4008

1.  Turn player On and ensure there is no disc is in the player

2.  Press 1 on the remote.

3.  Press 6.

4.  Press 7.

5.  Press 0 for region free.

6.  Press Stand by.

 Converting this player to Multi-Region if the above does not work.

1.  Turn player On and ensure there is no disc is in the player

2.  Press 1 on the remote.

3.  Press 6.

4.  Press 7.

5.  Wait a few seconds until a service menu appears

6.  Press 1 for region 1, 2 for region 2 or Mute for region free

7.  The player will now show All

8.  Press OK.

Thomson DTH-4200

Always perform a Cold Start before applying this hack:

1.  Power on your player

2.  Press and hold both the Play and Stop buttons on the players front panel

3.  After a short while you should be presented with a set of language options

(choose from 1 to 6).

4.  Release the Play and Stop buttons on the player.

If this does not work, try this method for cold boot:

1.  Power on your player

2.  Press and hold both the FF and Pause buttons on the players front panel (or

Stop and Pause, if that does not work).

3.  After a short while you should be presented with a set of language options

(choose from 1 to 6).

4.  Release the Play and Stop buttons on the player.

Converting this player to Multi-Region (newer firmware - 5.02E and above):

1.  Press Repeat on your Remote Control.

2.  Using the Remote enter the code below.

NB1:  that you must know what Region your player is currently set to in order to

know which code is appropriate:

NB2: for Region 2 use 5, 7, 5, 3, 8 instead of 3, 8, 7, 6, 7.  Refer to the

table below:

for Region 1 use 2, 9, 3, 3 and 4

for Region 2 use 3, 8, 7, 6 and 7

for Region 3 use 5, 6, 7, 3 and 2

for Region 4 use 7, 6, 8, 8 and 4

for Region 5 use 5, 3, 8, 1 and 4

for Region 6 use 2, 4, 4, 6 and 2

3.  A code should be displayed on the screen indicating the current Region

setting of your unit

4.  Press 9 for Region free, or press 1 for Region 1, 2 for Region 2 and so on

5.  Press Open.

6.  Press Standby.

 Further information has emerged for the very latest players. The only drawback

with the below is that it isn't held when the player is switched off. You also

need an Aiwa remote control, our for example the Aiwa RC-7AS08:

1.  Turn on the player

2,  Open the DVD tray

3.  Press Sleep on the Aiwa Remote, and you will see a cold start message on

screen

4.  Press Clock 3 times very quickly, pressing and pressing, you will see an

adjust message on front of DVD player

5.  Put any Region of DVD in and it will play

NB: It may also work with other Samsung DVD-Mxxx models, but may not work for

machines with the 5.02E firmware loaded. Try the Samsung V-5000 hack, it MAY

work.

Converting this player to Multi-Region (older firmware):

If you have:

Firmware version 5.02C (or earlier), or 5.02Ea through 5.02Ed: use REPEAT, 3, 8,

7, 6, 7

Firmware version 5.02Ee (or later): use REPEAT, 5, 7, 5, 3, 8

Firmware version 5.02Da through 5.02E: you can't use this hack until you've

upgraded your firmware to version 5.02Ee. 

The player may halt on FBI warnings...If the player does freeze at the FBI

warnings, Press Forward Search x2 or faster.

Note: Earlier firmware versions will not play The Matrix or There’s Something

About Mary but can be upgraded, firmware update does not remove hack. This hack

also removes Macrovision.

Thomson DTH-4500

Always perform a Cold Start before applying this hack:

1.  Power on your player

2.  Press and hold both the Play and Stop buttons on the players front panel

3.  After a short while you should be presented with a set of language options

(choose from 1 to 6).

4.  Release the Play and Stop buttons on the player.

If this does not work, try this method for cold boot:

1.  Power on your player

2.  Press and hold both the FF and Pause buttons on the players front panel (or

Stop and Pause, if that does not work).

3.  After a short while you should be presented with a set of language options

(choose from 1 to 6).

4.  Release the Play and Stop buttons on the player.

Converting this player to Multi-Region (newer firmware - 5.02E and above):

1.  Press Repeat on your Remote Control.

2.  Using the Remote enter the code below.

NB1:  that you must know what Region your player is currently set to in order to

know which code is appropriate:

NB2: for Region 2 use 5, 7, 5, 3, 8 instead of 3, 8, 7, 6, 7.  Refer to the

table below:

for Region 1 use 2, 9, 3, 3 and 4

for Region 2 use 3, 8, 7, 6 and 7

for Region 3 use 5, 6, 7, 3 and 2

for Region 4 use 7, 6, 8, 8 and 4

for Region 5 use 5, 3, 8, 1 and 4

for Region 6 use 2, 4, 4, 6 and 2

3.  A code should be displayed on the screen indicating the current Region

setting of your unit

4.  Press 9 for Region free, or press 1 for Region 1, 2 for Region 2 and so on

5.  Press Open.

6.  Press Standby.

 Further information has emerged for the very latest players. The only drawback

with the below is that it isn't held when the player is switched off. You also

need an Aiwa remote control, our for example the Aiwa RC-7AS08:

1.  Turn on the player

2,  Open the DVD tray

3.  Press Sleep on the Aiwa Remote, and you will see a cold start message on

screen

4.  Press Clock 3 times very quickly, pressing and pressing, you will see an

adjust message on front of DVD player

5.  Put any Region of DVD in and it will play

NB: It may also work with other Samsung DVD-Mxxx models, but may not work for

machines with the 5.02E firmware loaded. Try the Samsung V-5000 hack, it MAY

work.

Converting this player to Multi-Region (older firmware):

If you have:

Firmware version 5.02C (or earlier), or 5.02Ea through 5.02Ed: use REPEAT, 3, 8,

7, 6, 7

Firmware version 5.02Ee (or later): use REPEAT, 5, 7, 5, 3, 8

Firmware version 5.02Da through 5.02E: you can't use this hack until you've

upgraded your firmware to version 5.02Ee. 

The player may halt on FBI warnings...If the player does freeze at the FBI

warnings, Press Forward Search x2 or faster.

Note: Earlier firmware versions will not play The Matrix or There’s Something

About Mary but can be upgraded, firmware update does not remove hack. This hack

also removes Macrovision.

Thomson DTH-4600

1.  Turn player On and ensure there is no disc is in the player

2.  Press 1 on the remote.

3.  Press 6.

4.  Press 7.

5.  Press 0 for region free.

6.  Press Stand by.

 Converting this player to Multi-Region if the above does not work.

1.  Turn player On and ensure there is no disc is in the player

2.  Press 1 on the remote.

3.  Press 6.

4.  Press 7.

5.  Wait a few seconds until a service menu appears

6.  Press 1 for region 1, 2 for region 2 or 0 for region free

7.  The player will now show All

8.  Press OK.

Thomson DTH-4601

1.  Turn player On and ensure there is no disc is in the player

2.  Press 1 on the remote.

3.  Press 6.

4.  Press 7.

5.  Press 0 for region free.

6.  Press Stand by.

 Converting this player to Multi-Region if the above does not work.

1.  Turn player On and ensure there is no disc is in the player

2.  Press 1 on the remote.

3.  Press 6.

4.  Press 7.

5.  Wait a few seconds until a service menu appears

6.  Press 1 for region 1, 2 for region 2 or 0 for region free

7.  The player will now show All

8.  Press OK.

Thomson DTH-5000

Always perform a Cold Start before applying this hack:

1.  Power on your player

2.  Press and hold both the Play and Stop buttons on the players front panel

3.  After a short while you should be presented with a set of language options

(choose from 1 to 6).

4.  Release the Play and Stop buttons on the player.

If this does not work, try this method for cold boot:

1.  Power on your player

2.  Press and hold both the FF and Pause buttons on the players front panel (or

Stop and Pause, if that does not work).

3.  After a short while you should be presented with a set of language options

(choose from 1 to 6).

4.  Release the Play and Stop buttons on the player.

Converting this player to Multi-Region (newer firmware - 5.02E and above):

1.  Press Repeat on your Remote Control.

2.  Using the Remote enter the code below.

NB1:  that you must know what Region your player is currently set to in order to

know which code is appropriate:

NB2: for Region 2 use 5, 7, 5, 3, 8 instead of 3, 8, 7, 6, 7.  Refer to the

table below:

for Region 1 use 2, 9, 3, 3 and 4

for Region 2 use 3, 8, 7, 6 and 7

for Region 3 use 5, 6, 7, 3 and 2

for Region 4 use 7, 6, 8, 8 and 4

for Region 5 use 5, 3, 8, 1 and 4

for Region 6 use 2, 4, 4, 6 and 2

3.  A code should be displayed on the screen indicating the current Region

setting of your unit

4.  Press 9 for Region free, or press 1 for Region 1, 2 for Region 2 and so on

5.  Press Open.

6.  Press Standby.

 Further information has emerged for the very latest players. The only drawback

with the below is that it isn't held when the player is switched off. You also

need an Aiwa remote control, our for example the Aiwa RC-7AS08:

1.  Turn on the player

2,  Open the DVD tray

3.  Press Sleep on the Aiwa Remote, and you will see a cold start message on

screen

4.  Press Clock 3 times very quickly, pressing and pressing, you will see an

adjust message on front of DVD player

5.  Put any Region of DVD in and it will play

NB: It may also work with other Samsung DVD-Mxxx models, but may not work for

machines with the 5.02E firmware loaded. Try the Samsung V-5000 hack, it MAY

work.

Converting this player to Multi-Region (older firmware):

If you have:

Firmware version 5.02C (or earlier), or 5.02Ea through 5.02Ed: use REPEAT, 3, 8,

7, 6, 7

Firmware version 5.02Ee (or later): use REPEAT, 5, 7, 5, 3, 8

Firmware version 5.02Da through 5.02E: you can't use this hack until you've

upgraded your firmware to version 5.02Ee. 

The player may halt on FBI warnings...If the player does freeze at the FBI

warnings, Press Forward Search x2 or faster.

Note: Earlier firmware versions will not play The Matrix or There’s Something

About Mary but can be upgraded, firmware update does not remove hack. This hack

also removes Macrovision.

Thomson DTH-5000U

Always perform a Cold Start before applying this hack:

1.  Power on your player

2.  Press and hold both the Play and Stop buttons on the players front panel

3.  After a short while you should be presented with a set of language options

(choose from 1 to 6).

4.  Release the Play and Stop buttons on the player.

If this does not work, try this method for cold boot:

1.  Power on your player

2.  Press and hold both the FF and Pause buttons on the players front panel (or

Stop and Pause, if that does not work).

3.  After a short while you should be presented with a set of language options

(choose from 1 to 6).

4.  Release the Play and Stop buttons on the player.

Converting this player to Multi-Region (newer firmware - 5.02E and above):

1.  Press Repeat on your Remote Control.

2.  Using the Remote enter the code below.

NB1:  that you must know what Region your player is currently set to in order to

know which code is appropriate:

NB2: for Region 2 use 5, 7, 5, 3, 8 instead of 3, 8, 7, 6, 7.  Refer to the

table below:

for Region 1 use 2, 9, 3, 3 and 4

for Region 2 use 3, 8, 7, 6 and 7

for Region 3 use 5, 6, 7, 3 and 2

for Region 4 use 7, 6, 8, 8 and 4

for Region 5 use 5, 3, 8, 1 and 4

for Region 6 use 2, 4, 4, 6 and 2

3.  A code should be displayed on the screen indicating the current Region

setting of your unit

4.  Press 9 for Region free, or press 1 for Region 1, 2 for Region 2 and so on

5.  Press Open.

6.  Press Standby.

 Further information has emerged for the very latest players. The only drawback

with the below is that it isn't held when the player is switched off. You also

need an Aiwa remote control, our for example the Aiwa RC-7AS08:

1.  Turn on the player

2,  Open the DVD tray

3.  Press Sleep on the Aiwa Remote, and you will see a cold start message on

screen

4.  Press Clock 3 times very quickly, pressing and pressing, you will see an

adjust message on front of DVD player

5.  Put any Region of DVD in and it will play

NB: It may also work with other Samsung DVD-Mxxx models, but may not work for

machines with the 5.02E firmware loaded. Try the Samsung V-5000 hack, it MAY

work.

Converting this player to Multi-Region (older firmware):

If you have:

Firmware version 5.02C (or earlier), or 5.02Ea through 5.02Ed: use REPEAT, 3, 8,

7, 6, 7

Firmware version 5.02Ee (or later): use REPEAT, 5, 7, 5, 3, 8

Firmware version 5.02Da through 5.02E: you can't use this hack until you've

upgraded your firmware to version 5.02Ee. 

The player may halt on FBI warnings...If the player does freeze at the FBI

warnings, Press Forward Search x2 or faster.

Note: Earlier firmware versions will not play The Matrix or There’s Something

About Mary but can be upgraded, firmware update does not remove hack. This hack

also removes Macrovision.

Thomson DTH-5200

Always perform a Cold Start before applying this hack:

1.  Power on your player

2.  Press and hold both the Play and Stop buttons on the players front panel

3.  After a short while you should be presented with a set of language options

(choose from 1 to 6).

4.  Release the Play and Stop buttons on the player.

If this does not work, try this method for cold boot:

1.  Power on your player

2.  Press and hold both the FF and Pause buttons on the players front panel (or

Stop and Pause, if that does not work).

3.  After a short while you should be presented with a set of language options

(choose from 1 to 6).

4.  Release the Play and Stop buttons on the player.

Converting this player to Multi-Region (newer firmware - 5.02E and above):

1.  Press Repeat on your Remote Control.

2.  Using the Remote enter the code below.

NB1:  that you must know what Region your player is currently set to in order to

know which code is appropriate:

NB2: for Region 2 use 5, 7, 5, 3, 8 instead of 3, 8, 7, 6, 7.  Refer to the

table below:

for Region 1 use 2, 9, 3, 3 and 4

for Region 2 use 3, 8, 7, 6 and 7

for Region 3 use 5, 6, 7, 3 and 2

for Region 4 use 7, 6, 8, 8 and 4

for Region 5 use 5, 3, 8, 1 and 4

for Region 6 use 2, 4, 4, 6 and 2

3.  A code should be displayed on the screen indicating the current Region

setting of your unit

4.  Press 9 for Region free, or press 1 for Region 1, 2 for Region 2 and so on

5.  Press Open.

6.  Press Standby.

 Further information has emerged for the very latest players. The only drawback

with the below is that it isn't held when the player is switched off. You also

need an Aiwa remote control, our for example the Aiwa RC-7AS08:

1.  Turn on the player

2,  Open the DVD tray

3.  Press Sleep on the Aiwa Remote, and you will see a cold start message on

screen

4.  Press Clock 3 times very quickly, pressing and pressing, you will see an

adjust message on front of DVD player

5.  Put any Region of DVD in and it will play

NB: It may also work with other Samsung DVD-Mxxx models, but may not work for

machines with the 5.02E firmware loaded. Try the Samsung V-5000 hack, it MAY

work.

Converting this player to Multi-Region (older firmware):

If you have:

Firmware version 5.02C (or earlier), or 5.02Ea through 5.02Ed: use REPEAT, 3, 8,

7, 6, 7

Firmware version 5.02Ee (or later): use REPEAT, 5, 7, 5, 3, 8

Firmware version 5.02Da through 5.02E: you can't use this hack until you've

upgraded your firmware to version 5.02Ee. 

The player may halt on FBI warnings...If the player does freeze at the FBI

warnings, Press Forward Search x2 or faster.

Note: Earlier firmware versions will not play The Matrix or There’s Something

About Mary but can be upgraded, firmware update does not remove hack. This hack

also removes Macrovision.

Thomson DTH-5208AU

1.  Turn player On in DVD mode, with the tray empty.

2.  Press Menu.

3.  Press 1, 6 and 7 on the remote.

4.  You should be asked to enter a region number. Press Mute for region free, or

choose desired region number.

5.  Power off the player.

Thomson DTH-5400

Always perform a Cold Start before applying this hack:

1.  Power on your player

2.  Press and hold both the Play and Stop buttons on the players front panel

3.  After a short while you should be presented with a set of language options

(choose from 1 to 6).

4.  Release the Play and Stop buttons on the player.

If this does not work, try this method for cold boot:

1.  Power on your player

2.  Press and hold both the FF and Pause buttons on the players front panel (or

Stop and Pause, if that does not work).

3.  After a short while you should be presented with a set of language options

(choose from 1 to 6).

4.  Release the Play and Stop buttons on the player.

Converting this player to Multi-Region (newer firmware - 5.02E and above):

1.  Press Repeat on your Remote Control.

2.  Using the Remote enter the code below.

NB1:  that you must know what Region your player is currently set to in order to

know which code is appropriate:

NB2: for Region 2 use 5, 7, 5, 3, 8 instead of 3, 8, 7, 6, 7.  Refer to the

table below:

for Region 1 use 2, 9, 3, 3 and 4

for Region 2 use 3, 8, 7, 6 and 7

for Region 3 use 5, 6, 7, 3 and 2

for Region 4 use 7, 6, 8, 8 and 4

for Region 5 use 5, 3, 8, 1 and 4

for Region 6 use 2, 4, 4, 6 and 2

3.  A code should be displayed on the screen indicating the current Region

setting of your unit

4.  Press 9 for Region free, or press 1 for Region 1, 2 for Region 2 and so on

5.  Press Open.

6.  Press Standby.

 Further information has emerged for the very latest players. The only drawback

with the below is that it isn't held when the player is switched off. You also

need an Aiwa remote control, our for example the Aiwa RC-7AS08:

1.  Turn on the player

2,  Open the DVD tray

3.  Press Sleep on the Aiwa Remote, and you will see a cold start message on

screen

4.  Press Clock 3 times very quickly, pressing and pressing, you will see an

adjust message on front of DVD player

5.  Put any Region of DVD in and it will play

NB: It may also work with other Samsung DVD-Mxxx models, but may not work for

machines with the 5.02E firmware loaded. Try the Samsung V-5000 hack, it MAY

work.

Converting this player to Multi-Region (older firmware):

If you have:

Firmware version 5.02C (or earlier), or 5.02Ea through 5.02Ed: use REPEAT, 3, 8,

7, 6, 7

Firmware version 5.02Ee (or later): use REPEAT, 5, 7, 5, 3, 8

Firmware version 5.02Da through 5.02E: you can't use this hack until you've

upgraded your firmware to version 5.02Ee. 

The player may halt on FBI warnings...If the player does freeze at the FBI

warnings, Press Forward Search x2 or faster.

Note: Earlier firmware versions will not play The Matrix or There’s Something

About Mary but can be upgraded, firmware update does not remove hack. This hack

also removes Macrovision.

Thomson 24WT2US

1.  Open the disc tray.

2.  Insert any DVD but do not close the disc tray.

3.  Press and hold Eject, FFWD and OK buttons.

Note that this may take several attempts to achieve correctly.  You will be in

region free mode.

4.  The onscreen display will refresh twice and the disc tray will close

5.  Release Eject, FFWD and OK buttons on the front panel.

To revert this player back to its original region:

Repeat the above.

Thomson 24WT25E

1.  Open the disc tray.

2.  Insert any DVD but do not close the disc tray.

3.  Press and hold Eject, FFWD and OK buttons.

Note that this may take several attempts to achieve correctly.  You will be in

region free mode.

4.  The onscreen display will refresh twice and the disc tray will close

5.  Release Eject, FFWD and OK buttons on the front panel.

To revert this player back to its original region:

Repeat the above.

Thomson 24WT25UG

1.  Open the disc tray.

2.  Insert any DVD but do not close the disc tray.

3.  Press and hold Eject, FFWD and OK buttons.

Note that this may take several attempts to achieve correctly.  You will be in

region free mode.

4.  The onscreen display will refresh twice and the disc tray will close

5.  Release Eject, FFWD and OK buttons on the front panel.

To revert this player back to its original region:

Repeat the above.

Thomson 28WT25US

1.  Open the disc tray.

2.  Insert any DVD but do not close the disc tray.

3.  Press and hold Eject, FFWD and OK buttons.

Note that this may take several attempts to achieve correctly.  You will be in

region free mode.

4.  The onscreen display will refresh twice and the disc tray will close

5.  Release Eject, FFWD and OK buttons on the front panel.

To revert this player back to its original region:

Repeat the above.

Tiny TPSL-102

1.  Turn on the player, and ensure the tray is empty.

2.  Press 1 on the remote.

3.  Press 0.

4.  Press +10.

5.  Press Prev. 

6.  Press Next.

7.  You will then see the current Region number.

8.  Press Prev or Next to change the Region.

Beware, this machine will not playback RCE encoded discs.

Tokai 205N

1.  Press Open/Close on the players front panel.

2.  Press 3, 3, 0, 8 on the remote.

3.  Press 0 for region free, or desired region number.

4.  You should see XXXX or 0 on the screen.

Converting this player to Multi-Region if the above does not work:

1.  Press Open/Close on the players front panel.

2.  Press 8, 9, 2, 6 on the remote.

3.  Press 0 for region free, or desired region number.

4.  You should see XXXX or 0 on the screen.

Tokai DVD-713

1.  Press Setup.

2.  Rapidly press Slow, Left Skip, Right Skip.

3.  Choose region with arrow keys according to A=1, B=2, C=3 ..... ***=no

region.

4.  Press Setup.

Tokai DVD-715

1.  Press Setup.

2.  Rapidly press Slow, Left Skip, Right Skip.

3.  Choose region with arrow keys according to A=1, B=2, C=3 ..... ***=no

region.

4.  Press Setup.

Tokai DVD-715S

1.  Press Setup.

2.  Rapidly press Slow, Left Skip, Right Skip.

3.  Choose region with arrow keys according to A=1, B=2, C=3 ..... ***=no

region.

4.  Press Setup.

Toshiba

Many players from Toshiba cannot be hacked via the remote control. They will all

need to be internally modified to either automatically select a region or allow

the remote to select a region

Toshiba SD-110E

On DVD players that have already been region code modified for multi- region

..occasionally you will get a DVD that will come with a meesage eg: "This Disc

is intended to play on non-modified regions 1 Players" with a map of the regions

To get around this

Insert disc until the above appears then (on remote control):

1. press Memory .

2. Set T Field to 1 ( by pressing 1 key).

3. Press play.

4. Press Clear.

5. Press Menu.

NB:

For multi-region hacked DVD players that CANNOT play DVDs with RCE:

Insert a regular DVD that you know that player accepts (you should use a DVD

from another region than the one the player is originally from).

The player will begin to load the DVD. Just before the DVD menu or the copyright

warning is displayed, eject the DVD and (wihtout turning off the player) insert

the RCE DVD.

Toshiba SD-2109(b)

1.  Insert DVD from a different region.

2.  Wait for Region Code Violation screen to appear.

3.  Press M (Memory) on the remote.

4.  Press 1 for title 1 on the remote.

5.  Press Play.

6.  This will over-ride the regional code violation detection menu and you can

watch the movie etc by pressing fwd on the remote control and change chapters

etc by using the T (Title/Chapter) button on the remote control).

Region 2, Region 1 and Region 4 disks have been successfully played on a region

4 player via this method.  Including RCE disks.

Toshiba SD4900

1.  Insert DVD from a different region.

2.  Wait for Region Code Violation screen to appear.

3.  Press Menu.

4.  Press 1 for title 1 on the remote.

5.  Press Play.

6.  This will over-ride the regional code violation detection menu and you can

watch the movie etc by pressing fwd on the remote control and change chapters

etc by using the T (Title/Chapter) button on the remote control).

Region 2, Region 1 and Region 4 disks have been successfully played on a region

4 player via this method.  Including RCE disks.  PAL Conversion should work

great too!

Converting this player to Multi-Region if the above does not work (OR for more

permanent solution):

1.  Download the RMTM0000.zip file.

2.  Uncompress the file you've just downloaded on your computer, and burn it to

a CD.

3.  Follow the simple instructions, and select 0 for region free.

Enable CVD/SVCD Playback:

1.  Power on the Player, and ensure there is no disk in the tray.

2.  Press Pause on the remote.

3.  Press 1, 4, 7, 2.

4.  Your Player may display: 55 53 00 67 14 55 64 FF.

5.  Press Left Arrow 4 Times. the value at the top should now correspond with

the 4th value from the left in the middle of the screen.

6.  Press 6, and hold to change to F.

7.  Press Right Arrow.

8.  Press 5, and hold to change to E.

9.  The screen should now show: 55 53 00 67 14 55 FE FF.

10. Power off the player.

Region 2, Region 1 and Region 4 disks have been successfully played on a region

4 player via this method.  Including RCE disks.  PAL Conversion should work

great too!

Toshiba SD-220E

1.  Download the sd220e.rar file.

2.  Uncompress the file you've just downloaded using WinRAR on your computer,

and burn it to a CD.

3.  Start Nero Burning ROM, click File, click Burn Image..., select the .cue

file, click open, disable 'Determine maximum speed' and 'Simulation', at write

method select Disc-at-once (this is very important), click write.

4. Push setup on the SD220e remote control, select under picture: PAL/Auto:

Auto. Push setup again.

5. Open the Player's tray and insert the CD.

6. Close the disc tray.

7. The disc will be read and recognised as a VCD, you'll see the image on your

television flash and after a short while you will not see any image at all. Wait

about 10 seconds and take out the CD.

8. Your player is now region free.

Toshiba SD-K620

1.  Download the sd220e.rar file.

2.  Uncompress the file you've just downloaded using WinRAR on your computer,

and burn it to a CD.

3.  Start Nero Burning ROM, click File, click Burn Image..., select the .cue

file, click open, disable 'Determine maximum speed' and 'Simulation', at write

method select Disc-at-once (this is very important), click write.

4. Push setup on the SD220e remote control, select under picture: PAL/Auto:

Auto. Push setup again.

5. Open the Player's tray and insert the CD.

6. Close the disc tray.

7. The disc will be read and recognised as a VCD, you'll see the image on your

television flash and after a short while you will not see any image at all. Wait

about 10 seconds and take out the CD.

8. Your player is now region free.

Transonic V56L

1. Press Setup on your remote control

2. Press Next.

NB: If steps 2 thru 5 have no effect, you may need to press the equivalent

buttons on the player itself

3.  Press Prev.

4.  Press Next.

5.  Press Prev.

6. A code should appear on the onscreen display

7. Using the Arrow buttons on the remote, change the code to VER 1 for region 1

playback, VER 2 for region 2, and so on, or VER 255 for multi-region playback.

8. Press Setup.

Converting this player to Multi-Region, and Disabling Macrovision, Parental

Controls, VCD Playback:

1.  Press Setup on your remote control

2.  Press Next.

NB: If steps 2 thru 5 have no effect, you may need to press the equivalent

buttons on the player itself

3.  Press Prev.

4.  Press Next.

5.  Press Prev.

6.  A code should appear on the onscreen display

7.  Using the Arrow keys on the remote, change the code to VER 1 for region 1

playback, VER 2 for region 2, and so on, or VER 255 for multi-region playback.

8.  Using the Arrow keys, go to Parental Controls. the code to VER 3001 to

enable parental controls, or VER 3000 to disable these controls.

9.  Using the Arrow keys, go to Macrovision and change the code to VER 4001 to

enable Macrovision, or VER 4000 to disable this feature.

10. Using the Arrow keys, go to VCD/SVCD and change the code to VER 5001 to

disable VCD/SVCD playback, or VER 5000 to enable this feature.

11. Press Setup.

12. Press Setup.

Tredex TX-8303

1.  Open the player's tray

2.  Press 2, 1, 8, 0 on the remote.

3.  Press 9 for region free (or Press required region number).

4.  The first four digits will appear as asterisks on the screen. Each digit has

its own asterisk. Once you reach the fifth digit, whatever that digit is will

replace all the asterisks

To turn Macrovision On/Off:

1.  Open the player's tray

2.  Press 4, 5, 6, 1 on the remote.

3.  Press 1 to turn Off Macrovision, or Press 0 to turn On Macrovision

4.   The first four digits will appear as asterisks on the screen. Each digit

has its own asterisk. Once you reach the fifth digit, whatever that digit is

will replace all the asterisks.

Truvox DVD-600

1.  Press Open/Close on your Remote.

2.  Press 8, 4, 2 and 1.

3.  You should see the region code displayed on the onscreen display.

4.  Press Enter to change to desired region.  Choose All for region freel.

5.  Press Open/Close.

Umax DVD-6000

1.  Press Setup and choose Preferences menu.

2.  Press Step, FFwd, FBwd on the remote.

3.  Press Pause, Stop, Vol- and you should then be able to select region or use

0 for region free.

4.  Press Play to start disc.

Umax DVD-6500

1.  Press Eject on the Remote Control.

2.  Press 7, 7, 7, 7.

3.  Press 9 for Region Free (or press required region number).

NB: Do not use numbers above 9 for region!

5.  Press Eject to exit the menu.

1.  Press Eject on the Remote Control.

2.  Press 1, 2, 4, 8.

3.  Press 9 for Region Free (or press required region number).

NB: Do not use numbers above 9 for region!

5.  Press Eject to exit the menu.

United DVD-1151

1.  Power on the player.

2.  Press and hold Stop, then Open/Close & Skip Fwd on the player, for 3

seconds.

3.  A hidden menu should appear on the TV:

        REGIONAL NUMBER

        COLOUR SYSTEM SETTING

        DEFAULT COLOUR SYSTEM

        EXIT

4.  Highlight REGIONAL NUMBER and press Select on the remote.

5.  Menu: "REGIONAL NO 1,2,3,4,5,6,FREE". Select a Region or FREE for Region

free

6.  Press Select.

SET COLOUR SYSTEM

1.  Go to first menu as above, "COLOUR SYSTEM SETTING" and press Select on the

remote.

2.  Menu: "AUTO" "MANUAL". Set to "MANUAL" and press "SELECT" on the remote. The

first menu should appear again.

3.  Select "DEFAULT COLOUR SYSTEM". Menu "PAL" and "NTSC" should appear.

4.  Select according to the system of your TV Number 9 on main menu must also be

set according to the system of your TV, if the TV is not a multi-system, i.e PAL

and NTSC.

United DVD-1155

1.  Open the player's tray.

2.  Press 8, 9, 2, and 6 on the remote.

3.  You should see **** on the top left of the screen.

4.  Enter 9 for region free, or region number of your choice.

5.  You should now see your selected region at the top left of the screen.

6.  Press Play.

United DVD-2151

1.  Ensure there is no disk in the player, and the tray is closed.

2.  Press Setup.

3.  Press Next.

4.  Press Stop.

5.  Press Pause/Step.

6.  Press Prev.

7.  Press Next.

8.  You should now see a new Loopholes menu.

9.  Go to Select Region.

10. Choose Bypass for region free.

United DVD-2255 (and many other models!)

1.  Open the player's tray.

2.  Press 3, 3, 0, 8 on the remote.

3.  You should see **** on the top left of the screen.

4.  Enter 9 for region free, or region number of your choice.

5.  You should now see your selected region at the top left of the screen.

6.  Press Play.

United DVD-3052M

1.  Open the player's tray.

2.  Press 3, 3, 0, 8 on the remote.

3.  You should see **** on the top left of the screen.

4.  Enter 0 for region free, or region number of your choice.

5.  You should now see your selected region at the top left of the screen.

6.  Press Play.

Converting this player to Multi-Region if the above does not work:

1.  Open the player's tray

2.  Press 7, 7, 3, and 9

3.  Press "0" (for multi-region code) "2" (for region 2) etc.

4.  Close the tray.

United DVD-3054M

1.  Open the player's tray.

2.  Press 3, 3, 0, 8 on the remote.

3.  You should see **** on the top left of the screen.

4.  Enter 0 for region free, or region number of your choice.

5.  You should now see your selected region at the top left of the screen.

6.  Press Play.

Converting this player to Multi-Region if the above does not work:

1.  Open the player's tray

2.  Press 7, 7, 3, and 9

3.  Press "0" (for multi-region code) "2" (for region 2) etc.

4.  Close the tray.

United DVD-3055M

1.  Open the player's tray.

2.  Press 3, 3, 0, 8 on the remote.

3.  You should see **** on the top left of the screen.

4.  Enter 0 for region free, or region number of your choice.

5.  You should now see your selected region at the top left of the screen.

6.  Press Play.

Converting this player to Multi-Region if the above does not work:

1.  Open the player's tray

2.  Press 7, 7, 3, and 9

3.  Press "0" (for multi-region code) "2" (for region 2) etc.

4.  Close the tray.

United DVD-3056M

1.  Open the player's tray.

2.  Press 3, 3, 0, 8 on the remote.

3.  You should see **** on the top left of the screen.

4.  Enter 0 for region free, or region number of your choice.

5.  You should now see your selected region at the top left of the screen.

6.  Press Play.

Converting this player to Multi-Region if the above does not work:

1.  Open the player's tray

2.  Press 7, 7, 3, and 9

3.  Press "0" (for multi-region code) "2" (for region 2) etc.

4.  Close the tray.

United DVD-3151

1.  Open the player's tray.

2.  Press 3, 3, 0, 8 on the remote.

3.  You should see **** on the top left of the screen.

4.  Enter 9 for region free, or region number of your choice.

5.  You should now see your selected region at the top left of the screen.

6.  Press Play.

United DVD-3155

1.  Open the player's tray.

2.  Press 3, 3, 0, 8 on the remote.

3.  You should see **** on the top left of the screen.

4.  Enter 9 for region free, or region number of your choice.

5.  You should now see your selected region at the top left of the screen.

6.  Press Play.

United DVD-3161

1.  Open the player's tray.

2.  Press 8, 1, 2, 2 and 8 on the remote.

3.  A menu should appear on the TV.

4.  Press Enter to move to Region 9.

5.  Press Play to close the tray.

6.  The machine should now be permanently multi-region.

Enabling VCD playback:

1.  Power On the player and place a VCD in tray.

2.  Using the front panel press Close quickly followed by Menu and 5 on the

remote

3.  This should load and play the disc. If the disc fails to play then press 0,

0, 0, 1 and the disc should then play

4.  If this fails to work then you may wish to try using the hack for the

Goodmans GDVD-135.

NB:  This may only enable VCD and NOT SVCD

United DVD-4034

1.  Open the player's tray.

2.  Press 3, 3, 0, 8 on the remote.

3.  You should see **** on the top left of the screen.

4.  Enter 0 for region free, or region number of your choice.

5.  You should now see your selected region at the top left of the screen.

6.  Press Play.

Converting this player to Multi-Region if the above does not work:

1.  Open the player's tray

2.  Press 7, 7, 3, and 9

3.  Press "0" (for multi-region code) "2" (for region 2) etc.

4.  Close the tray.

United DVD-4050

1.  Open the player's tray.

2.  Press 3, 3, 0, 8 on the remote.

3.  You should see **** on the top left of the screen.

4.  Enter 0 for region free, or region number of your choice.

5.  You should now see your selected region at the top left of the screen.

6.  Press Play.

Converting this player to Multi-Region if the above does not work:

1.  Open the player's tray

2.  Press 7, 7, 3, and 9

3.  Press "0" (for multi-region code) "2" (for region 2) etc.

4.  Close the tray.

United DVD-4054M

1.  Open the player's tray.

2.  Press 3, 3, 0, 8 on the remote.

3.  You should see **** on the top left of the screen.

4.  Enter 0 for region free, or region number of your choice.

5.  You should now see your selected region at the top left of the screen.

6.  Press Play.

Converting this player to Multi-Region if the above does not work:

1.  Open the player's tray

2.  Press 7, 7, 3, and 9

3.  Press "0" (for multi-region code) "2" (for region 2) etc.

4.  Close the tray.

United DVD-6620

1.  Open the player's tray.

2.  Press 3, 3, 0, 8 on the remote.

3.  You should see **** on the top left of the screen.

4.  Enter 0 for region free, or region number of your choice.

5.  You should now see your selected region at the top left of the screen.

6.  Press Play.

Converting this player to Multi-Region if the above does not work:

1.  Open the player's tray

2.  Press 7, 7, 3, and 9

3.  Press "0" (for multi-region code) "2" (for region 2) etc.

4.  Close the tray.

United DVD-6622

1.  Open the player's tray.

2.  Press 3, 3, 0, 8 on the remote.

3.  You should see **** on the top left of the screen.

4.  Enter 0 for region free, or region number of your choice.

5.  You should now see your selected region at the top left of the screen.

6.  Press Play.

Converting this player to Multi-Region if the above does not work:

1.  Open the player's tray

2.  Press 7, 7, 3, and 9

3.  Press "0" (for multi-region code) "2" (for region 2) etc.

4.  Close the tray.

United DVD-6642

1.  Open the player's tray.

2.  Press 3, 3, 0, 8 on the remote.

3.  You should see **** on the top left of the screen.

4.  Enter 0 for region free, or region number of your choice.

5.  You should now see your selected region at the top left of the screen.

6.  Press Play.

Converting this player to Multi-Region if the above does not work:

1.  Open the player's tray

2.  Press 7, 7, 3, and 9

3.  Press "0" (for multi-region code) "2" (for region 2) etc.

4.  Close the tray.

United DVH-3161

1.  Open the player tray.

2.  Press 8, 1, 3, 2, 8 on your remote.

3.  A window will appear on your TV screen.

4.  Press Enter to move to region 9 (region free)..

5.  Press play to close the tray.

6.  The machine is now permanently multi region.

Enabling VCD playback:

1.  Turn On the player and place a VCD on the open tray

2.  Press Close quickly followed by Menu (on the player's front panel).

3.  Press 5 on the remote

4.  This should load and play the disc. If the disc fails to play then press 0,

0, 0, 1 and the disc should then play

5.  If this fails to work then you may wish to consider using the hack for the

Goodmans GDVD-135.

United DVH-4081

1.  Open the player tray.

2.  Press 8, 1, 3, 2, 8 on your remote.

3.  A window will appear on your TV screen.

4.  Press Enter to move to region 9 (region free)..

5.  Press play to close the tray.

6.  The machine is now permanently multi region.

Enabling VCD playback:

1.  Turn On the player and place a VCD on the open tray

2.  Press Close quickly followed by Menu (on the player's front panel).

3.  Press 5 on the remote

4.  This should load and play the disc. If the disc fails to play then press 0,

0, 0, 1 and the disc should then play

5.  If this fails to work then you may wish to consider using the hack for the

Goodmans GDVD-135.

United DVX-4052

1.  Power on the player.

2.  Eject the Player's tray.

3.  Press Setup.

4.  Press Right Arrow 4 times to select "Custom Menu".

5.  Press 3, 3, 3, 3.

6.  A new Secret menu should appear... Select Free for region free.

7.  Press Enter.

8.  Power off the player.

United DVX-4066M

Converting this player to Multi-Region (older firmware):

1.  Power on the player.

2.  Press Arrow Up twice.

3.  Press Arrow Down twice.

4.  Press Arrow Right once.

5.  Press Arrow Left once.

6.  Press 0 (for region free, or select desired region number).

7.  Press Enter.

Converting this player to Multi-Region (newer firmware):

1.  Power on the player.

2.  Press Setup.

3.  Press Step.

4.  Press Prev.

5.  Press Next.

6.  You should now be in a hidden menu, where you can see your firmware

information, and bypass region checks.

United DVX-4068

1.  Power on the player.

2.  Eject the Player's tray.

3.  Press Setup twice.

4.  Press Up Arrow.

5.  Press Down Arrow.

6.  Press 0 for region free.  You should see R0 appear on the TV screen.

Universum 8120

In order to update your player with a new and patched firmware (code free,

macrovision free), you first have to make sure what chipset and maybe what

mainboard version there is.

The info screen tells you the chipset:

1. Press Open, Menu, 7, 4, 2, 0.

2. This brings up the info screen telling you the firmware version etc.

Possible results and options available for each result:

Player Version: STCinemaster 3.388 - Vestel 3.06b9

Driver Version: 401, Build 706-Configurable-1

Region Code: Configurable, All

Drive Type: Type 0-ATAPI, DVS-LDRDSL-710A, LT37

Memory Config: 8192KB SMI, 0KB EMI, 5519

Audio DAC: CS4335-3

------------------

Chipset:

Main decoder chip: Take a look at the line 'Memory Config' and look at the end

of the line. This tells you whether your player works with the 5508 chip or the

5519 (like shown above).

Audio DAC chip: Take a look at the last line. It tells you the name of the chip,

in this case it's the 'CS4335' and how many of them are present. '-3' means that

there are 3 of them (that's the case for my 5.1 player with 3

stereo(2-channel)-Audio DACs which makes 6 channels).

Drive Type: Look at that line. It should be an ATAPI device anyway. Almost every

player around comes with a DVS drive 'DSL-710A'. The drive's firmware (not that

one of the dvd player) is shown at the end of the line. Here, it's 'LT 3.7'.

If the menu shows 5508 for the chipset (or it doesn't show 5519), then it's bad

luck for now. There's no new firmware available for the time being.

If it shows 5519, then you may have either a mainboard maked '12MB03' (older

players) or '12MB04' (all the recently manufactured). You may open you dvd

player case and look for yourself or just try the update: if you've got massive

picture problems, it was a 12mb03 and you have to modify the firmware before you

try the update again.

(The version information is printed on the mainboard on right side near the big

chip (plugs facing backwards). It may be hidden partly under a label, but you

most likely see the '04' (in case it's a 12MB04).)

Mainboard 12MB04:

1. Just downoad the latest firmware version for 'SEG BeverlyHills2' from this

SEG-Nav4.1-5519-Atapi-2layer-Reg2.zip.

2. Then download the latest version of the tool abconf_03c.zip.

3. Unpack the firmware to a separate folder. You may have to remove the write

protection for the file 'hws.ab'.

4. Start abconf. Press load and select the requested files of those you've just

unpacked.

5. Now you can apply the modifications:

AudioDAC:

select the right audio DAC type:

AUDIO/dac/{'cs4335' or whatever your player has, see above}

then the right count of DAC chips:

(just choose it on the Audio DAC shortcut on the right, or do it manually by

changing the entry ba hand: )

AUDIO/dacnum/{'1' or '3' or whatever you have seen on the info screen, see

above}

RegionCode:

GENERAL/region/{mark the current setting and click the right butten. Then change

the value to '0' for codefree}

Macrovision:

(just choose disable on the macrovision shortcut on the right, or do it manually

by changing the entry ba hand: )

VIDEO/macrovision/{click on 'disable'}

Misc:

Enable audio output during fast-forward/rewind of cd audio and mp3 playback:

NAVI/CDDA/audioscan/{select 'enable'}NAVI/MP3/audioscan/{select 'enable'}

6. Click save and burn the files to a cd-r/-rw. Note that you may have to add a

junk data file of about 40..50MB (e.g. any 'song.wav'). This may be necessary

because some drives do have problems with an otherwise too narrow data track.

Universum DR-1020

1.  Power on the player and Open the tray

2.  Press 8, 1, 3, 2, 8.

3.  A Window will appear on the TV screen.

4.  Press Enter until you highlight 9 (Multi-Region).

5.  Press Play to Close the tray.

6.  The machine is now permanently multi-region.

Enabling VCD playback:

1.  Turn On the player and place a VCD on the open tray

2.  Press Close quickly followed by Menu (on the player's front panel).

3.  Press 5 on the remote

4.  This should load and play the disc. If the disc fails to play then press 0,

0, 0, 1 and the disc should then play

5.  If this fails to work then you may wish to consider using the hack for the

Goodmans GDVD-135.

Venturer PVS-76W

1.  Open the player tray.

2.  Press 8, 1, 3, 2, 8 on your remote.

3.  A window will appear on your TV screen.

4.  Press Enter to move to region 9 (region free).

5.  Press Play to close the tray.

6.  The machine is now permanently multi region.

Enabling VCD playback:

1.  Turn On the player and place a VCD on the open tray

2.  Press Close quickly followed by Menu (on the player's front panel).

3.  Press 5 on the remote

4.  This should load and play the disc. If the disc fails to play then press 0,

0, 0, 1 and the disc should then play

5.  If this fails to work then you may wish to consider using the hack for the

Goodmans GDVD-135.

Venturer PVS-177W

1.  Open the player tray.

2.  Press 8, 1, 3, 2, 8 on your remote.

3.  A window will appear on your TV screen.

4.  Press Enter to move to region 9 (region free).

5.  Press Play to close the tray.

6.  The machine is now permanently multi region.

Enabling VCD playback:

1.  Turn On the player and place a VCD on the open tray

2.  Press Close quickly followed by Menu (on the player's front panel).

3.  Press 5 on the remote

4.  This should load and play the disc. If the disc fails to play then press 0,

0, 0, 1 and the disc should then play

5.  If this fails to work then you may wish to consider using the hack for the

Goodmans GDVD-135.

Venturer PVS-1960

1.  Power On the Player.

2.  Open the player's tray .

3.  Press 8, 1, 3, 2, 8 on the remote.

4.  Press Enter until region 9 appears on screen (for region free).

5.  Press Play.

6.  Close the player's tray.

Venturer RTS-2628V

1.  Open the player tray.

2.  Press 8, 1, 3, 2, 8 on your remote.

3.  A window will appear on your TV screen.

4.  Press Enter to move to region 9 (region free).

5.  Press Play to close the tray.

6.  The machine is now permanently multi region.

Enabling VCD playback:

1.  Turn On the player and place a VCD on the open tray

2.  Press Close quickly followed by Menu (on the player's front panel).

3.  Press 5 on the remote

4.  This should load and play the disc. If the disc fails to play then press 0,

0, 0, 1 and the disc should then play

5.  If this fails to work then you may wish to consider using the hack for the

Goodmans GDVD-135.

Venturer STS-20-S

1.  Open the player tray.

2.  Press 8, 1, 3, 2, 8 on your remote.

3.  A window will appear on your TV screen.

4.  Press Enter to move to region 9 (region free).

5.  Press Play to close the tray.

6.  The machine is now permanently multi region.

Enabling VCD playback:

1.  Turn On the player and place a VCD on the open tray

2.  Press Close quickly followed by Menu (on the player's front panel).

3.  Press 5 on the remote

4.  This should load and play the disc. If the disc fails to play then press 0,

0, 0, 1 and the disc should then play

5.  If this fails to work then you may wish to consider using the hack for the

Goodmans GDVD-135.

Venturer STS-21  (most STS-21 models)

1.  Open the player tray.

2.  Press 8, 1, 3, 2, 8 on your remote.

3.  A window will appear on your TV screen.

4.  Press Enter to move to region 9 (region free).

5.  Press Play to close the tray.

6.  The machine is now permanently multi region.

Enabling VCD playback:

1.  Turn On the player and place a VCD on the open tray

2.  Press Close quickly followed by Menu (on the player's front panel).

3.  Press 5 on the remote

4.  This should load and play the disc. If the disc fails to play then press 0,

0, 0, 1 and the disc should then play

5.  If this fails to work then you may wish to consider using the hack for the

Goodmans GDVD-135.

For the STS-21-S, the picture is in black and white, regardless of region.  No

known problems for other STS-21 models.

Venturer STS-32-S

1.  Power on the player (not from Standby).

2.  Open the player's tray.

2.  Press 8, 1, 3, 2, 8 on your remote.

4.  Press Enter to move to region 9 (region free)..

5.  Close the tray.

6.  Power Off and On again, not from Standby.

Venturer STS-21AAS10

1.  Open the player tray.

2.  Press 8, 1, 3, 2, 8 on your remote.

3.  A window will appear on your TV screen.

4.  Press Enter to move to region 9 (region free).

5.  Press Play to close the tray.

6.  The machine is now permanently multi region.

Enabling VCD playback:

1.  Turn On the player and place a VCD on the open tray

2.  Press Close quickly followed by Menu (on the player's front panel).

3.  Press 5 on the remote

4.  This should load and play the disc. If the disc fails to play then press 0,

0, 0, 1 and the disc should then play

5.  If this fails to work then you may wish to consider using the hack for the

Goodmans GDVD-135.

Venturer STS-32AAS10

1.  Power on the player (not from Standby).

2.  Open the player's tray.

2.  Press 8, 1, 3, 2, 8 on your remote.

4.  Press Enter to move to region 9 (region free)..

5.  Close the tray.

6.  Power Off and On again, not from Standby.

Venturer STS-21AAST

1.  Open the player tray.

2.  Press 8, 1, 3, 2, 8 on your remote.

3.  A window will appear on your TV screen.

4.  Press Enter to move to region 9 (region free).

5.  Press Play to close the tray.

6.  The machine is now permanently multi region.

Enabling VCD playback:

1.  Turn On the player and place a VCD on the open tray

2.  Press Close quickly followed by Menu (on the player's front panel).

3.  Press 5 on the remote

4.  This should load and play the disc. If the disc fails to play then press 0,

0, 0, 1 and the disc should then play

5.  If this fails to work then you may wish to consider using the hack for the

Goodmans GDVD-135.

Vestel DG71

In order to update your player with a new and patched firmware (code free,

macrovision free), you first have to make sure what chipset and maybe what

mainboard version there is.

The info screen tells you the chipset:

1. Press Open, Menu, 7, 4, 2, 0.

2. This brings up the info screen telling you the firmware version etc.

Possible results and options available for each result:

Player Version: STCinemaster 3.388 - Vestel 3.06b9

Driver Version: 401, Build 706-Configurable-1

Region Code: Configurable, All

Drive Type: Type 0-ATAPI, DVS-LDRDSL-710A, LT37

Memory Config: 8192KB SMI, 0KB EMI, 5519

Audio DAC: CS4335-3

------------------

Chipset:

Main decoder chip: Take a look at the line 'Memory Config' and look at the end

of the line. This tells you whether your player works with the 5508 chip or the

5519 (like shown above).

Audio DAC chip: Take a look at the last line. It tells you the name of the chip,

in this case it's the 'CS4335' and how many of them are present. '-3' means that

there are 3 of them (that's the case for my 5.1 player with 3

stereo(2-channel)-Audio DACs which makes 6 channels).

Drive Type: Look at that line. It should be an ATAPI device anyway. Almost every

player around comes with a DVS drive 'DSL-710A'. The drive's firmware (not that

one of the dvd player) is shown at the end of the line. Here, it's 'LT 3.7'.

If the menu shows 5508 for the chipset (or it doesn't show 5519), then it's bad

luck for now. There's no new firmware available for the time being.

If it shows 5519, then you may have either a mainboard maked '12MB03' (older

players) or '12MB04' (all the recently manufactured). You may open you dvd

player case and look for yourself or just try the update: if you've got massive

picture problems, it was a 12mb03 and you have to modify the firmware before you

try the update again.

(The version information is printed on the mainboard on right side near the big

chip (plugs facing backwards). It may be hidden partly under a label, but you

most likely see the '04' (in case it's a 12MB04).)

Mainboard 12MB04:

1. Just downoad the latest firmware version for 'SEG BeverlyHills2' from this

SEG-Nav4.1-5519-Atapi-2layer-Reg2.zip.

2. Then download the latest version of the tool abconf_03c.zip.

3. Unpack the firmware to a separate folder. You may have to remove the write

protection for the file 'hws.ab'.

4. Start abconf. Press load and select the requested files of those you've just

unpacked.

5. Now you can apply the modifications:

AudioDAC:

select the right audio DAC type:

AUDIO/dac/{'cs4335' or whatever your player has, see above}

then the right count of DAC chips:

(just choose it on the Audio DAC shortcut on the right, or do it manually by

changing the entry ba hand: )

AUDIO/dacnum/{'1' or '3' or whatever you have seen on the info screen, see

above}

RegionCode:

GENERAL/region/{mark the current setting and click the right butten. Then change

the value to '0' for codefree}

Macrovision:

(just choose disable on the macrovision shortcut on the right, or do it manually

by changing the entry ba hand: )

VIDEO/macrovision/{click on 'disable'}

Misc:

Enable audio output during fast-forward/rewind of cd audio and mp3 playback:

NAVI/CDDA/audioscan/{select 'enable'}NAVI/MP3/audioscan/{select 'enable'}

6. Click save and burn the files to a cd-r/-rw. Note that you may have to add a

junk data file of about 40..50MB (e.g. any 'song.wav'). This may be necessary

because some drives do have problems with an otherwise too narrow data track.

Vestel DH71

In order to update your player with a new and patched firmware (code free,

macrovision free), you first have to make sure what chipset and maybe what

mainboard version there is.

The info screen tells you the chipset:

1. Press Open, Menu, 7, 4, 2, 0.

2. This brings up the info screen telling you the firmware version etc.

Possible results and options available for each result:

Player Version: STCinemaster 3.388 - Vestel 3.06b9

Driver Version: 401, Build 706-Configurable-1

Region Code: Configurable, All

Drive Type: Type 0-ATAPI, DVS-LDRDSL-710A, LT37

Memory Config: 8192KB SMI, 0KB EMI, 5519

Audio DAC: CS4335-3

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Chipset:

Main decoder chip: Take a look at the line 'Memory Config' and look at the end

of the line. This tells you whether your player works with the 5508 chip or the

5519 (like shown above).

Audio DAC chip: Take a look at the last line. It tells you the name of the chip,

in this case it's the 'CS4335' and how many of them are present. '-3' means that

there are 3 of them (that's the case for my 5.1 player with 3

stereo(2-channel)-Audio DACs which makes 6 channels).

Drive Type: Look at that line. It should be an ATAPI device anyway. Almost every

player around comes with a DVS drive 'DSL-710A'. The drive's firmware (not that

one of the dvd player) is shown at the end of the line. Here, it's 'LT 3.7'.

If the menu shows 5508 for the chipset (or it doesn't show 5519), then it's bad

luck for now. There's no new firmware available for the time being.

If it shows 5519, then you may have either a mainboard maked '12MB03' (older

players) or '12MB04' (all the recently manufactured). You may open you dvd

player case and look for yourself or just try the update: if you've got massive

picture problems, it was a 12mb03 and you have to modify the firmware before you

try the update again.

(The version information is printed on the mainboard on right side near the big

chip (plugs facing backwards). It may be hidden partly under a label, but you

most likely see the '04' (in case it's a 12MB04).)

Mainboard 12MB04:

1. Just downoad the latest firmware version for 'SEG BeverlyHills2' from this

SEG-Nav4.1-5519-Atapi-2layer-Reg2.zip.

2. Then download the latest version of the tool abconf_03c.zip.

3. Unpack the firmware to a separate folder. You may have to remove the write

protection for the file 'hws.ab'.

4. Start abconf. Press load and select the requested files of those you've just

unpacked.

5. Now you can apply the modifications:

AudioDAC:

select the right audio DAC type:

AUDIO/dac/{'cs4335' or whatever your player has, see above}

then the right count of DAC chips:

(just choose it on the Audio DAC shortcut on the right, or do it manually by

changing the entry ba hand: )

AUDIO/dacnum/{'1' or '3' or whatever you have seen on the info screen, see

above}

RegionCode:

GENERAL/region/{mark the current setting and click the right butten. Then change

the value to '0' for codefree}

Macrovision:

(just choose disable on the macrovision shortcut on the right, or do it manually

by changing the entry ba hand: )

VIDEO/macrovision/{click on 'disable'}

Misc:

Enable audio output during fast-forward/rewind of cd audio and mp3 playback:

NAVI/CDDA/audioscan/{select 'enable'}NAVI/MP3/audioscan/{select 'enable'}

6. Click save and burn the files to a cd-r/-rw. Note that you may have to add a

junk data file of about 40..50MB (e.g. any 'song.wav'). This may be necessary

because some drives do have problems with an otherwise too narrow data track.

Vieta DVD-2

1.  Press Open on the remote.

2.  Press Setup.

3.  Press 9, 6, 0, 1, 0.

4.  Press Step.

5.  Press Shuffle.

6.  Press Next.

7.  Nothing noticeable will happen either.

8.  You can check if it worked on a hidden menu: Open, Setup, Shuffle, Step,

Next.

9.  If the value for 'debug' is 9, it worked.

Vieta DVD-Uno

1.  Press Open.

2.  Press Setup.

3.  Press Shuffle.

4.  Press Step.

5.  Press Next.

5. In this secret menu you can select (depending firmware version) macrovision

off, region ,mini DVD , vfd, file explorer...

Voxson DVD250

1.  Press Open/Close on the remote handset

NB: Disc tray remains open and TV screen remains the same while pressing the

following buttons.

2.  Press Clear.

3.  Press 1, 3, 6, 9.

4.  followed by the region number required , or 0 for region free.

5.  After region setting is completed, place the DVD disc into the disc tray and

press play.

Disk's with RCE protection will not play if set on region 0 (all zones). Select

the correct region of the disc (Eg. region "1", "4" etc). for these discs.

Voxson DVD320

1.  Turn the player on.

2.  Press Setup, Next, Stop, Pause, Prev, Next on the remote.

3.  You should now be in a hidden menu.

4.  Press Arrow to the REGION ID.

5.  Press Arrow Up and Arrow Down to change region from VER1 to VER6 or select

BYPASS for region free.

6.  Press Select.

7.  Press Setup.

8.  Insert the DVD into the player tray and then press Play.

RCE discs have to be set to specific region in order to play, rather than the

BYPASS option.

Voxson DVD330

1. Turn the player on.

2. Using the remote control, key in the following: Setup, Next, Stop, Pause,

Prev, Next.

3. You should now be in a hidden menu.

4. Using the remote control, press Arrow button to the REGION ID.

5. Press Arrow Up and Arrow Down to change region from VER1 to VER6 or select

BYPASS for region free.

6. Press Select, then Setup on the remote control.

7. Insert the DVD into the player tray and then press Play.

8. RCE discs have to be set to specific region in order to play, rather than the

BYPASS option.

Voxson DVDMXK2

1.  Press Open/Close on the remote handset

NB: Disc tray remains open and TV screen remains the same while pressing the

following buttons.

2.  Press Clear.

3.  Press 1, 3, 6, 9.

4.  followed by the region number required , or 0 for region free.

5.  After region setting is completed, place the DVD disc into the disc tray and

press play.

Disk's with RCE protection will not play if set on region 0 (all zones). Select

the correct region of the disc (Eg. region "1", "4" etc). for these discs.

Voxson DVDMXK3

1.  Press Open/Close on the remote handset

NB: Disc tray remains open and TV screen remains the same while pressing the

following buttons.

2.  Press Clear.

3.  Press 1, 3, 6, 9.

4.  followed by the region number required , or 0 for region free.

5.  After region setting is completed, place the DVD disc into the disc tray and

press play.

Disk's with RCE protection will not play if set on region 0 (all zones). Select

the correct region of the disc (Eg. region "1", "4" etc). for these discs.